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ˈoyster-shell
a. A shell of an oyster. Also fig.
c1450Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 239 Falsehed and sche byn bothe of oon substaunce, Alle be they not worth an oyster⁓schelle. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 16 Theyr fete are round..of the bignes of great oystershelles. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 104 Harts marrow,..mingled with the powder of oyster shels,..cureth kibes and chilblanes. 1875Buckland Log-bk. 124 The black markings or Wampum⁓spots in the American oyster-shell were..cut out, made into beads, and used as money or ornaments by the Indians. 1876Trollope Prime Minister IV. vi. 87 When Aristides has been much too just the oyster-shells become numerous.
b. attrib. oyster-shell bark-louse N. Amer. = oyster-shell scale (a); oyster-shell scale N. Amer., (a) a scale insect, Lepidosaphes ulmi, which attacks many trees and shrubs; (b) the disease produced by this insect, characterized by small curved scales on the plant's bark; oyster-shell stains (Photogr.), stains on the plate in the collodion process; oyster-shell veneer, veneering = oyster veneer, veneering s.v. oyster 7 d.
1757Whytt in Phil. Trans. L. 387 He put the first in oystershell lime-water. 1835Court Mag. VI. 188/1 Careering it in Bath, in his oyster-shell phaeton. 1868Lea Photogr. 247 Marbled Stains.—‘Oyster-shell’ stains of reduced silver, with a gray metallic surface and in curious curved and arabesque patterns occasionally make their appearance. 1868Rep. Comm. Agric. 1867 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 73 The oyster shell bark louse or scale insect..is said to be exterminated by washing the tree with a mixture of two parts of soft soap, eight parts of water, and lime enough to give it the consistence of whitewash. 1877Rep. Vermont Board Agric. IV. 150 Dr. Worcester has also shown me a branch covered with oyster shell bark-louse. Ibid., The insect is shorter and stouter than that of the oyster shell scale. 1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush ii. 21 He was glad to reach the oyster-shell path running up Wellington Street. 1924C. C. Deam Shrubs of Indiana 233 Some individuals of several species are attacked and even killed both in cultivation and in the wild state by the oyster-shell scale. 1929G. G. & F. Gould Period Furnit. Handbk. xiv. 147 Veneer:..oyster-shell—in walnut, irregularly shaped oval pieces, cross sections cut from small boughs, the wood graining suggesting oyster-shells, popular in the late Charles II period. 1955R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles 286 This oystershell veneering, used for cabinet doors and drawer fronts, was introduced from Holland in the late seventeenth century. 1971A. Christie Nemesis viii. 86 A William and Mary oyster-shell bureau. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 163 Oystershell Scale: lepidosaphes ulmi... The armor is light to dark brown, shaped like a tiny oyster shell. |