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shell

noun

  • Ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun.
  • The material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals.
  • Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles.
  • The hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts.
  • The exterior covering of a bird's egg.
  • A rigid covering that envelops an object.
    • usage: "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"
  • A very light narrow racing boat.
  • The housing or outer covering of something.
    • usage: "the clock has a walnut case"
  • A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners.
  • The hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod.

verb

  • Use explosives on.
    • usage: "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
  • Create by using explosives.
    • usage: "blast a passage through the mountain"
  • Fall out of the pod or husk.
    • usage: "The corn shelled"
  • Hit the pitches of hard and regularly.
    • usage: "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
  • Look for and collect shells by the seashore.
  • Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
    • usage: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
  • Remove from its shell or outer covering.
    • usage: "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
  • Remove the husks from.
    • usage: "husk corn"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
  • (n.) A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
  • (n.) A torpedo.
  • (n.) A case or cartridge containing a charge of explosive material, which bursts after having been thrown high into the air. It is often elevated through the agency of a larger firework in which it is contained.
  • (n.) A gouge bit or shell bit.
  • (n.) Something similar in form or action to an ordnance shell;.
  • (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
  • (v.i.) To cast the shell or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
  • (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
  • (n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
  • (v.t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
  • (v.i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
  • (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
  • (n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
  • (v.t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
  • (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
  • (n.) A pod.
  • (v.i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
  • (v.t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear or husk.
  • (n.) The case which holds the powder or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
  • (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
  • (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
  • (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
  • (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
  • (n.) The covering or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
  • (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
  • (n.) The hard covering of an egg.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Shell is either masculine or feminine given name
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