Word Meanings - GOUGESHELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.
Related words: (words related to GOUGESHELL)
- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - MARINE
Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and - SHARPLY
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. - PINNATIFID
Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib. - SHARPER
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler. - EDGELESS
Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - SHARPIE
A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated. - TUBULARIAN
Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain - PINNATELY
In a pinnate manner. - SHELL
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, - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - SHARP-SET
Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope. - SHARPEN
To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray - SHARP
scharp, scarp, AS. scearp; akin to OS. skarp, LG. scharp, D. scherp, G. scharf, Dan. & Sw. skarp, Icel. skarpr. Cf. Escarp, Scrape, 1. Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. He dies - EDGEBONE
See AITCHBONE - VERMETUS
Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidæ. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - TUBULARIAE
See TUBULARIDA - SHARPNESS
The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - PREKNOWLEDGE
Prior knowledge. - 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. - LEDGEMENT
See LEDGMENT - WEDGY
Like a wedge; wedge-shaped. - LEADING EDGE
same as Advancing edge, above. - 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. - INTERPLEDGE
To pledge mutually. - MASK SHELL
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture. - FOLLOWING EDGE
See ABOVE - PARIPINNATE
Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end. - DULEDGE
One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.