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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
  • A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
  • A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a seige mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb (q.v.).
  • An emaciated person.
  • An engraved copper roller used in print works.
  • Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the '''shell''' of a house.
  • A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume ''Phaseolus vulgaris''.
  • A psychological barrier to social interaction.
  • computing A general-purpose environment, usually command-line-oriented, within which other commands are invoked and their interactions controlled.
  • chemistry A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
  • entomology The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
  • music A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
  • music The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
  • nautical A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
  • rigging The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
  • nautical The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
  • plural Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
  • The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
  • The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
  • The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
  • The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
  • The conjoined scutes that comprise the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
  • The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
  • The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
  • The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.

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Proper noun:

  • A diminutive of the female given name '''Michelle'''.

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Verb:

  • informal To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with ''out'').
  • To bombard, to fire projectiles at.
  • To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.

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