Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior
structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a
house.

A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin
inclosed in a more substantial one.

The hard covering of an egg.

The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and
shot, used with breechloading small arms.

Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.

A pod.

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

i. kabuk. Mussels live inside a shell. (Midyeler bir kabuğun içinde yaşar.)

The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut
shell.

A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar
or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse
or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its
fragments scattered. See Bomb.