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A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles

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A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

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    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • SHELL-LESS
    , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
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    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • JOINTWEED
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  • SHELLER
    One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
  • LATERAL
    Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • CLOSEHANDED
    Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • LATERALLY
    By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
  • CONSISTORIAN
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    Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
  • JOINTURELESS
    Having no jointure.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
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  • GOROON SHELL
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    In a gymnastic manner.
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  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
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    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
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    1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.

 

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