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shellsnounpl. of shell something that encloses another thing especially to protect iteating oysters straight out of their shells armors, capsules, cases, casings, cocoons, coverings, covers, encasements, housings, hulls, husks, jackets, pods, sheaths cartridges, cassettes(also casettes)barks, crustscarapaces, houses, mails, panoplies, plates, platings, shieldscuticles, hides, skinsenvelopes, packages, wrappersbackings, coatings, covertures, facings the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic formworkers at the shipyard have thus far erected the shell of the ship architectures, armatures, cadres, configurations, edifices, fabrics, frames, frameworks, framings, infrastructures, skeletons, structures cages, lattices, networkscontours, figures, outlines, profiles, shapes, silhouetteschassis an outer part or layerthe shell of the building is all glass, making it conspicuous on a street with mostly limestone facades exteriors, faces, outsides, skins, surfaces, veneers facades(also façades), fronts, topscoverings, covers, facingsappearances, disguises, guises, masks, semblances, shows insides, interiors shellsverbpresent tense third-person singular of shellto remove the natural covering ofshelling peanuts barks, flays, hulls, husks, peels, shucks, skins bares, denudes, exposes, scales, stripspares to use bombs or artillery againstthe enemy shelled the city for days without letup batters, blitzes, blitzkriegs, bombards, bombs, cannonades enfiladesrakes, strafesassails, assaults, attacks, devastates, hits, pounds, ravages, strikes |