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Word Meanings - DIVARICATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

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  • SHELL-LESS
    , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
  • SHELLER
    One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
  • ILLUSTROUS
    Without luster.
  • CARDINALSHIP
    The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal
  • ILLUSTRIOUS
    1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SHELLAPPLE
    See SHELDAFLE
  • ILLUSTRATIVELY
    By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
  • SHELLPROOF
    Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
  • ILLUSTRATIVE
    1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • 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
  • CARDINALIZE
    To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon.
  • ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
  • ILLUSTRATION
    1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
  • SHELLED
    Having a shell.
  • SHELLING
    Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.
  • MUSCLE READING
    The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
  • 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.
  • MASK SHELL
    Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • UNSHELL
    To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
  • UNCARDINAL
    To degrade from the cardinalship.
  • 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.
  • TOOTHSHELL
    Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
  • DECARDINALIZE
    To depose from the rank of cardinal.
  • COCKLESHELL
    1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle. 2. A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.
  • TURBAN-SHELL
    A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

 

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