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Nutshell :: Nutshell (n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

Matting :: Matting (v. t. & i.) Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc..

Wrapper :: Wrapper (n.) That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering..

Velum :: Velum (n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate..

Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body..

Weatherboarding :: Weatherboarding (n.) The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc..

Tire :: Tire (n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.

Ploc :: Ploc (n.) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.

Manesheet :: Manesheet (n.) A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

Integument :: Integument (n.) That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular..

Wrappage :: Wrappage (n.) That which wraps; envelope; covering.

Eggshell :: Eggshell (n.) The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow..

Calyx :: Calyx (n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.

Vest :: Vest (n.) An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.

Woolly :: Woolly (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece..

Diatom :: Diatom (n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use..

Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments..

Bathybius :: Bathybius (n.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin..

Uncovering :: Uncovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Uncove.

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