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in the shell
a. The hard outer calcareous envelope of a bird's egg. ( †in the shell, of an egg, boiled.) Also, the similar integument of the eggs of other creatures. Cf. eggshell n.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > hard or protective covering > shell of an egg or fish
shellc725
shella900
eggshellc1300
shale1561
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked (of specific food) > eggs
rearlOE
harda1425
poachedc1450
soft-boiled1577
hard-boiled1589
rare1655
rath egg1684
in the shell1692
dropped1824
rumpled1896
a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 18 Mar. 40 Se rodor ymbfehð..sæ & eorðan, swa seo scell utan ymbfehð þæt æg.
13.. K. Alis. 571 An ay he laide, so he fleygh,.. That tobrak, Y yow telle: A dragon crep out of the schelle.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xii. i The chikenes comeþ forþe of þe schelle alyue and fulle schape.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 41 Take Eyroun, & blow owt þat ys with-ynne..þan waysshe þe schulle clene.
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 99 When the shell is broke, out comes a chick.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xlii When her food begins once to appear she [the silkworm] comes forth of her shel.
1692 T. Tryon Good House-wife (ed. 2) x. 83 Eggs boyled in the Shells.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 107 The Turtle's Eggs, which I roasted in the Ashes, and eat, as we call it, in the Shell.
1864 Englishw. in India 173 Beat the whites of the eggs in a basin... Crush the shells and add them with the wine.
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in the shell
b. in the shell: (of an egg or a bird, etc.) unhatched; also figurative, in embryo.
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the world > animals > family unit > [adverb] > unhatched
in the shell1609
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > unprepared [phrase] > in an immature state
in the blade1584
in the shell1609
in the rougha1649
on the musta1661
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 130 If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an idle head you would eate chickens ith shell. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 34 Thinke him as a Serpents egge,.. And kill him in the shell . View more context for this quotation
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §101. 91 Some yet are Embrio's, yet hatching, and in the shell; as the Popes infallibility.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xvi. 179 Corn for ever in the blade, egges alwaies in the shell.
a1659 F. Osborne Observ. Turks in Wks. (1673) 278 By the heat of Religion many Vertues are hatched, and more Vices stifled in the shell.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 71 Embryo poets and artists in the shell.
1897 Advance (Chicago) 25 Feb. 242/1 As a writer he is full grown..but as an evolutionist he is still in the shell.
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