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An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the

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An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

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• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• ADULTERY
  The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• ADULT
  Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
• ADULTER
  To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• 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.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.