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Word Meanings - SHELLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.

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  • SHELL-LESS
    , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
  • SHORER
    One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • PRIORSHIP
    The state or office of prior; priorate.
  • SHELLER
    One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
    1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
  • CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
    1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
  • SHELLAPPLE
    See SHELDAFLE
  • PRIORITY
    1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
  • SHELLPROOF
    Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
  • PRIORATE
    The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
  • ABOUND
    1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
  • PRIORESS
    A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
  • SHELLBARK
    A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
  • SHELLY
    Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.
  • SHELLAC; SHELL-LAC
    See LAC
  • BACKWARDATION
    The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.
  • GOROON SHELL
    A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
  • VALVE-SHELL
    Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
  • SPOUTSHELL
    Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
  • SLIT-SHELL
    Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
  • SEASHORE
    All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
  • MASK SHELL
    Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
  • SUBPRIOR
    The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
  • LONGSHORE
    Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • UNSHELL
    To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
  • EGGSHELL
    A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. (more info) 1. The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
  • FROGSHELL
    One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.

 

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