shell
— Verb
– English
~ look for and collect shells by the seashore
shell
— Verb
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~ come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
shell
— Verb
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~ hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
shell
— Verb
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~ use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
shell
— Verb
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~ fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"
shell
— Verb
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~ create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"
shell out
— Verb
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~ administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks"
shell
— Verb
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~ remove the husks from; "husk corn"
shell-less
— Adjective
– English
~ of animals or fruits that have no shell
shellac
— Noun
– English
~ a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
shellac
— Noun
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~ lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
shellac
— Verb
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~ cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
shellack
— Verb
– English
~ cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
shellak
— Noun
– Danish
~ gullig el. brunlig lak som fremstilles af sekret f ...
shellbark
— Noun
– English
~ North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
shellbark hickory
— Noun
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~ North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
shelled
— Adjective
– English
~ of animals or fruits that have a shell
sheller
— Noun
– English
~ a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters)
Shelley
— Noun
– English
~ Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)
Shelley
— Noun
– English
~ English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)