Shelly


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Shell´y


a.1.Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell.
Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.
- Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in classic literature ?
"This is a small laundry, up country, belongs to Shelly Hot Springs, - hotel, you know.
He would send his trunk up to Shelly Hot Springs on Joe's ticket.
He arrived at Shelly Hot Springs, tired and dusty, on Sunday night.
It rests on ancient volcanic rocks, and has been covered by a stream of basalt, which must have entered the sea when the white shelly bed was lying at the bottom.
I may here mention, that on a part of the coast of Ascension, where there is a vast accumulation of shelly sand, an incrustation is deposited on the tidal rocks by the water of the sea, resembling, as represented in the woodcut, certain cryptogamic plants (Marchantiae) often seen on damp walls.
Wilson has promoted Shelly Tucker-Lorenz to surety underwriter in its Carmel, Indiana, office.
Shelly, of the 0-99 block of Oakcrest Drive, faces four felony counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer and one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest, according to Kane County court records.
A two-year project at the Shelly Co.'s limestone quarry in Ostrander, Ohio, has been successfully completed.