Shell

Definition:

(n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
(n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
(n.) A pod.
(n.) The hard covering of an egg.
(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.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
(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.
(n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
(n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
(n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
(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.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
(n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
(n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
(n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
(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. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
(v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
(v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
(v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
(v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

Compare shell with other words:

sheld vs. shell

shell vs. shill

shell vs. snell

sheal vs. shell

shell vs. stell

shelf vs. shell

shell vs. swell

shell vs. spell

shell vs. smell

shell vs. speed

hurtle vs. shell

orbital vs. shell

chitin vs. shell

shall vs. shell

shell vs. valve

scallop vs. shell

ootype vs. shell

reprimer vs. shell

shell vs. strombite

deltidium vs. shell

divaricator vs. shell

recapper vs. shell

interdome vs. shell

shell vs. testudinarious

ostreaceous vs. shell

shell vs. unshell

shell vs. trochus

lunule vs. shell

shell vs. shellwork

retractor vs. shell

conchologist vs. shell

conchiferous vs. shell

ambitus vs. shell

shell vs. shelly

loricate vs. shell

shell vs. siphuncle

phragmocone vs. shell

shell vs. tridacna

putamen vs. shell

crusta vs. shell

cockled vs. shell

osselet vs. shell

ossicle vs. shell

rocket vs. shell

plate vs. shell

conch vs. shell

display vs. shell

scale vs. shell

housing vs. shell

shedder vs. shell

peristome vs. shell

paucispiral vs. shell

shell vs. testudineous

coquina vs. shell

shell vs. testaceous

ammonite vs. shell

calipee vs. shell

calipash vs. shell

shell vs. skimmer

shell vs. univalve

shell vs. squarrose

foraminifer vs. shell

brachiopod vs. shell

lorica vs. shell

shell vs. shelling

cockleshell vs. shell

patty vs. shell

shell vs. whorl

coxswain vs. shell

cowrie vs. shell

cardo vs. shell

auriculated vs. shell

fauces vs. shell

concha vs. shell

nates vs. shell

scalloped vs. shell

chair vs. shell

battery vs. shell

nutshell vs. shell

mantle vs. shell

cockle vs. shell

shell vs. shrapnel

shell vs. triton

shard vs. shell

conchology vs. shell

calabash vs. shell

shell vs. shuck

diminutive vs. shell

shell vs. turban

barbette vs. shell

shell vs. sounding

shell vs. wampum

necklace vs. shell

cuttlefish vs. shell

bombshell vs. shell

shale vs. shell

money vs. shell

shell vs. sheller

shell vs. tortoiseshell

shell vs. shellfish

seashell vs. shell

eggshell vs. shell

interpreter vs. shell

control vs. shell

program vs. shell

launch vs. shell

sheave vs. shell

block vs. shell

frame vs. shell

print vs. shell

roller vs. shell

engrave vs. shell

copper vs. shell

attach vs. shell

acoustic vs. shell

cylindrical vs. shell

shell vs. string

acoustical vs. shell

instrument vs. shell

shell vs. substantial

flimsy vs. shell

coffin vs. shell

coarse vs. shell

blouse vs. shell

exterior vs. shell

framework vs. shell

bullet vs. shell

round vs. shell

firearm vs. shell

cartridge vs. shell

scatter vs. shell

fragment vs. shell

burst vs. shell

percussion vs. shell

ignite vs. shell

explosive vs. shell

cannon vs. shell

shell vs. smoothbore

projectile vs. shell

hollow vs. shell

casing vs. shell

artillery vs. shell

geode vs. shell

armadillo vs. shell

carapace vs. shell

scute vs. shell

chocolate vs. shell

cocoa vs. shell

decoction vs. shell

cacao vs. shell

pecan vs. shell

cover vs. shell

exoskeleton vs. shell

invertebrate vs. shell

crustacean vs. shell

mollusk vs. shell

chitinous vs. shell

calcareous vs. shell

gyration vs. shell

balloon vs. shell

lance vs. shell

ammunition vs. shell

integument vs. shell

almond vs. shell

kernel vs. shell

cornet vs. shell

shell vs. snail

shell vs. tortoise

olive vs. shell

shell vs. turtle

bombard vs. shell

carcass vs. shell

mortar vs. shell

military vs. shell