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Definition of Oyster shell
1. Noun. A shell of an oyster.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Shell
Literary usage of Oyster shell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"But there is abundant activity illustrated within the mussel or oyster shell.
There are millions of minute living threads—the cilia of the ..."
2. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"The following analyses were made * by LP Brown and JSH Koiner on the oyster-shell
used in lime-burning at Baltimore, Md., and the resulting lime. TABLE 32. ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"Oyster-shell Scale, Lepidosaphes ulmi: a., female scale, under side, showing
insect and its eggs within ; Ъ, same, from above ; c, same, natural size ; d, ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"On the Anomalous Oyster-Shell. By Prof. JS HENSLOW. To the Editors of the Annals
of Natural History. Hitcham, Hadleigh, Suffolk, March 8, 1855. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"The affection is due to au injury to the cornea from a particle of oyster-shell,
and is characterized by the rapidity with which an area of infiltration ..."
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