inshell
English
Etymology
Verb
inshell (third-person singular simple present inshells, present participle inshelling, simple past and past participle inshelled)
- (literary rare) To enclose in a shell.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 6,[1]
- ’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, The Literary Life, and Miscellanies, of John Galt, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 19, p. 178,[2]
- […] 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, George Meredith, “The Thrush in February” in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 42, October, 1885, p. 510,[3]
- 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, Dick Moore, Bogeymen in Worlds of Tomorrow, Volume 3, Number 1, May 1965, p. 161,[4]
- Who could know what forces those two-meter hulls inshelled, or what fleets and empires waited on their signal?
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 6,[1]
Adjective
inshell (not comparable)
- (agriculture, fisheries) (of nuts, eggs, shellfish) Not removed from the shell.
- Live inshell scallops are preferable to frozen scallop meats.
- 1966, Calvin Golumbic and Hamilton Laudani, “Storage and Warehousing” in Protecting our Food, United States Department of Agriculture, p. 141,[5]
- The insects that attack inshell peanuts consist of several species of beetles and of moths.
- 1985, David Pyrah, “Staining Machine Improves Detection of Cracked Eggs” in Agricultural Research, January 1985, p. 15,[6]
- The stain […] contains iodine, which is also a permitted disinfectant for inshell eggs.
- 2011, RedEye, 6 October, 2011, p. 43,[7]
- Recent research shows that people snacking on inshell pistachios ate 41 percent fewer calories than those who consumed shelled nuts.
Antonyms
Noun
inshell (plural inshells)
- (agriculture, fisheries) 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.