Word Meanings - ESCALOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop. 2. A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop. "So many jags or escalops." Ray. The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been

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A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop. 2. A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop. "So many jags or escalops." Ray. The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Hence: A bearing or a charge consisting of an escalop shell.

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• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• MARGINALIA
  Marginal notes.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• FIGURE
  1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure
• MARGINALLY
  In the margin of a book.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• MARGINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• SCALLOP
  Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidæ. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• MARGINATED
  See A
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVE
  A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line. Axis of a curve. See under Axis. -- Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing , the process of determining the shape, location,
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
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  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• VALVE-SHELL
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• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• SHIELD-BEARER
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• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• SLIT-SHELL
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• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
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• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
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