Definition of hell

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Hell (v. t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention..

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Kitchen Middens :: Kitchen middens () Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians..
Testudineous :: Testudineous (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise.
Grecian :: Grecian (n.) A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
Pecan :: Pecan (n.) A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat..
Cockleshell :: Cockleshell (n.) A light boat.
Panhellenium :: Panhellenium (n.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.
Ivorytype :: Ivorytype (n.) A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype..
Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells..
Soft-shell :: Soft-shell (a.) Alt. of Soft-shelle.
Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..
Hickory :: Hickory (n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter..
Corona :: Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
Bulimus :: Bulimus (n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America..
Middle-earth :: Middle-earth (n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell..
Anomia :: Anomia (n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment..
Gougeshell :: Gougeshell (n.) A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus..
Conchometry :: Conchometry (n.) The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.
Testaceous :: Testaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell..
Hell :: Hell (v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type..
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