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One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many Note: The species usually have an exterior calcareous skeleton, or shell, made of many pieces, and often covered with spines, to which the name. They may be star-shaped, cylindrical,

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One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many Note: The species usually have an exterior calcareous skeleton, or shell, made of many pieces, and often covered with spines, to which the name. They may be star-shaped, cylindrical, disk-shaped, or more or less spherical. The body consists of several similar parts repeated symmetrically around a central axis, at one end of which the mouth is situated. They generally have suckers for locomotion. The group includes the following classes: Crinoidea, Asterioidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea, and Holothurioidea. See these words in the Vocabulary, and also Ambulacrum.

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• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• 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.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• SKELETON
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• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• SLIT-SHELL
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• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.