shell-snailn.
a. A snail having a shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > member of
sneg1340
limacea1492
cochle?1527
house snail1562
shell-snail1600
hoddy-dod1601
land-winkle1601
hodmandod1626
snag1674
vine-snail1829
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 58 A cataplasme..made of the muscilage of shell snailes.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxx. xiii. 395 Certaine shell-snailes that creepe in troupes together for to devour the young spring and greene leaves of plants.
1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 102 A Hodmandod, a Shell-snail.
1699 J. Barry Reviving Cordial i. 6 Some speckled Shell Snails.
1843 Zoologist 1 97 Small spiral-shaped shell-snails.
1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 239/1 The big shell snails..which lurk, during the day, in crevices of the walls.
b. figurative. A retiring or shy person.
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the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > shyness or bashfulness > [noun] > person
shell-snail1585
diffident1617
shameface1898
shrinking violet1915
1585 J. Stell in T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie Ep. Ded. What (think we) may be obiected against those shelsnailes?
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