Shell

In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.

Genuine mother-of-pearl buttons are made from sea shells.

[…] if with thee the roaring wells ⁠Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; ⁠And hands so often clasp’d in mine, Should toss with tangle and with shells.

The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.

The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.

Upstairs in that chill darkened room which nobody passes who can help it , the old Baronet lies in his coffin shell - an awful form faintly defined beneath the sheet

Then they lifted the body into the bag, setting it down like something breakable, zipped the bag, wrapped the whole thing in polythene and carried the stretcher into the shell.

The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.

when Jubal struck the chorded shell

The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again.

Mr. Thomas adds that, by the time it was scrapped, Kingsley was in very bad condition, little more than a shell in fact. In view of the rough usage to which the engine had been subjected, this is not surprising.

He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.

Since coming back from Vietnam, he's been a shell of his former self.

Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.

The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".

A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.

Can I have a quick word in your shell?

Chinese (Mandarin) is taught at Westminster from the Lower Shell as an optional subject.

a theory shell

a topicality shell

The guns shelled the enemy trenches.

There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush.

Nuts shell in falling.

Wheat or rye shells in reaping.

Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.

He shelled it, and dislocated his finger in the process.