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ˈsea-shell
a. A marine shell, the shell of any salt-water mollusc.
a900O.E. Martyrol. 14 Jan. 18 Understreᵹd mid sæscellum & mid scearpum stanum. 1707Mortimer Husb. 84 Sea⁓shells of any sort are a very great improver of Land. 1805Southey Madoc ii. ix. 192 Whose thunders, ever and anon, Commingling with the sea-shell's spiral roar Closed the full harmony. 1858O. W. Holmes Mare Rubrum 28 Like emptied sea-shells on the sand.
attrib.1871Mrs. Stowe Pink & White Tyranny i. 4 He saw this distant vision of airy gauzes, of pearly whiteness, of sea-shell pink. 1901F. Hume Golden Wang-ho i, Complexion of the most delicate sea-shell pink.
b. Material consisting of sea-shells.
1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 251 Mineral manures are silica, lime, alumina, under the modifications of sand, clay,..marl, sea-shell, gypsum. |