Word Meanings - NATES - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The umbones of a bivalve shell. (more info) The buttocks. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
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- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - ANTERIORITY
The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - OPTICIAN
1. One skilled in optics. A. Smith. 2. One who deals in optical glasses and instruments. - OPTIC; OPTICAL
1. Of or pertaining to vision or sight. The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views. Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. - DORSALLY
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad. - 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 - OPTIC
1. The organ of sight; an eye. The difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the object seen. Pope. 2. An eyeglass. Herbert. - MIDBRAIN
The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain. - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - 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 - BIVALVE
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 - SHELLED
Having a shell. - SHELLING
Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds. - SHELLFISH
Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs. - BIVALVED
Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve. - SHELLWORK
Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. Cotgrave. - 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. - SCIOPTIC
Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. Scioptic ball , the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, - SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL
Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv. - SYNOPTIC
One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist. - 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. - OMPHALOPTER; OMPHALOPTIC
An optical glass that is convex on both sides. Hutton. - 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. - 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.