Word Meanings - CRUSTACEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

• Cover-shame
  Something used to conceal infamy.
• Shellac
  See the Note under 2d Lac.
• COVERPOINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Shellapple
  See Sheldafle.
• COVERSEDSINE
  The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Covert baron
  Under the protection of a husband; married.
• Shellbark
  A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
• COVERSHAME
  Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Covertly
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• Sheller
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.

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