inshell

English

Etymology

in- +‎ shell

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈʃɛl/

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• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnˌʃɛl/

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Verb

inshell (third-person singular simple present inshells, present participle inshelling, simple past and past participle inshelled)

1. (literary, rare) To enclose in a shell.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     ’Tis Aufidius,
     Who, hearing of our Coriolanus’ banishment,
     Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;
     Which were inshell’d when Coriolanus stood for Rome,
     And durst not once peep out.

   • 1834, John Galt, chapter 19, in The Literary Life, and Miscellanies, of John Galt‎^[1], volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 178:

     […] of all men that I have ever known, no one was more reluctant to creep out of the modesty in which he had inshelled himself, than the man whom I cannot even yet think no more, feeling towards his memory as if he were still waiting for something not received.

   • 1885 October, George Meredith, “The Thrush in February”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 42, page 510:

     Vermilion wings, by distance held
     To pause aflight while fleeting swift:
     And high aloft the pearl inshelled
     Her lucid glow in glow will lift:

   • 1965 May, Dick Moore, “Bogeymen”, in Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 3, number 1, page 161:

     Who could know what forces those two-meter hulls inshelled, or what fleets and empires waited on their signal?

Adjective

inshell (not comparable)

1. (agriculture, fishery) (of nuts, eggs, shellfish) Not removed from the shell.

   Live inshell scallops are preferable to frozen scallop meats.

   • 1966, Calvin Golumbic, Hamilton Laudani, “Storage and Warehousing”, in Protecting our Food‎^[2], United States: Department of Agriculture, page 141:

     The insects that attack inshell peanuts consist of several species of beetles and of moths.

   • 1985 January, David Pyrah, “Staining Machine Improves Detection of Cracked Eggs”, in Agricultural Research, page 15:

     The stain […] contains iodine, which is also a permitted disinfectant for inshell eggs.

   • 2011 October 6, RedEye, page 43:

     Recent research shows that people snacking on inshell pistachios ate 41 percent fewer calories than those who consumed shelled nuts.

Antonyms

• shelled

Noun

inshell (plural inshells)

1. (agriculture, fishery) A product (nut, shellfish) that has not been removed from its shell.

   Inshells are shipped in 50-pound sacks, while shelled walnut pieces are shipped in 25-pound bags'

Anagrams

• Hillens