inshell

in- +‎ shell

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. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 6,

     ’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,

     […] 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,

     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,

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

inshell (not comparable)

1. (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,

     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,

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

   • 2011, RedEye, 6 October, 2011, p. 43,

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

• shelled

inshell (plural inshells)

1. (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.

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