Crossword-Solution: SCALLOP
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| Scallop | n. | Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2. |
| Scallop | n. | One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. |
| Scallop | n. | One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell. |
| Scallop | v. t. | To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2. |
| Scallop | n. | To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SCALLOP (5)
Every Daguerreotypist is familiar with the fact that a motion of any body between the camera and the sitter will cause a “blur.” Cut a piece of thin paper and scallop it, making a semicircle.
They all loved the Scargill Street house for its openness, for the great scallop of the world it had in view.
They bade the wave before him rise; They flung the sea-fire in his eyes, And they stunned his ears with the scallop stroke, With the porpoise heave and the drum-fish croak.
Behold us, then, fairly afloat, with three horses harnessed to our vessel, like the steeds of Neptune to a huge scallop-shell in mythological pictures.
Rome gained and left behind, and with it the Pilgrims who are now repairing to their own homes again—each with his scallop shell and staff, and soliciting alms for the love of God—we come, by a fair country, to the Falls of Terni, where the whole Velino river dashes, headlong, from a rocky height, amidst shining spray and rainbows.
Quotes with SCALLOP (1)
A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky’s stars as a pattern of perfect, concentric circles. I seek a reduction, a shedding, a sloughing off. At the seashore you often see a shell, or fragment of a shell, that sharp sands and surf have thinned to a wisp. There is no way you can tell what kind of shell it had been, what creature it had hou…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1945–2023).