ostracologyn.
/ˌɒstrəˈkɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌɑstrəˈkɑlədʒi/ rare.† 1. The study of shells; conchology. Obsolete. rare.
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1839 E. A. Poe Conchologist's First Bk. 3 A treatise concerning the shells, exclusively..is termed..a Treatise upon Conchology... Ostracology would have been more definite.
2. The study of ostraca (see ostracon n.). rare.
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1941 H. C. Youtie in Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 72 439 In 1935 Professor Leiv Amundsen published his celebrated edition of six hundred and ninety-nine ostraca in the University of Michigan collection. It was immediately recognized as an achievement in ostracology equalled by few and surpassed by none.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1839- in the shade
- in the shadow
- in the shape of
- in the shaughraun
- in the shell
- in the short run
- in the short term
- in the show of the world
- in the skies
- in the small
- in the smallest
- in the soup
- in the spite of
- in the spotlight
- in the spout
- in the spud line
- in the stead
- in the stead of
- in the steel way
- in the sticks
- in the straw
- in the street
- in the streets
- in the stub
- in the success