▪ I. shelled, a.
(ʃɛld)
[f. shell n. + -ed2.]
1. Of animals, fruits, etc.: Having a shell.
shelled insects, the crustacean group Entomostraca: cf. shell-insect s.v. shell n. 40 b.
| 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. 102 Those fruites that are shelde, as Nuttes. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. Disc. xiv. 29 They are like shelled fish, singing loudest when their house is on fire about their ears. 1730 Southall Treat. Bugs 19 A Bugg's Body is shaped and shelled, and the Shell as transparent..as the most beautiful..Turtle. 1752 Phil. Trans. XLVII. 510 The juices of shell'd fish. 1812 D'Israeli Calam. Auth. (1867) 140 Authors must not be thin-skinned, but shelled like the rhinoceros. 1819 Scott Leg. Montrose iv, He's shelled like a partan. 1854 A. Adams, etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 370 Shelled-Astacians (Epipyxididæ). 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1009 The contained eggs, or rather shelled embryos, are minute. |
b. With prefixed adj.: Having a shell (of a certain kind).
| 1611 [see hard-shelled, soft-shelled]. 1649 Thick-shell'd [see thick a. 12]. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 626 The corn here is thinner shelled than that which grows in a fatter soil. 1845 Gosse Ocean i. (1849) 58 Some little shelled Mollusk. 1904 P. Fountain Gt. North-West xxi. 249 The eggs..are very small and delicate shelled. |
2. Of a beach: Covered with shells.
| 1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Feb. 11/2 A generous expanse of shelled and sandy beach. |
3. Of ammunition: Contained in shells.
| 1900 Daily News 13 June 7/6 Our artillery now poured in common shelled lyddite. |
▪ II. shelled, ppl. a.
(ʃɛld)
[f. shell v. + -ed1.]
Deprived of the shell; from which the shell has been removed or shed. Cf. sheeled. shelled corn: Indian corn removed from the cob. U.S.
| 1676 in Maryland Archives (1884) II. 560 A Peck of Indian shell'd Corn or Oates. 1714 J. Green Diary in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1869) X. 104, I agreed to give Mr. Ganson five bushels of shelled corn at harvest, for ye damage my oxen did ye last night. 1725 P. Blair Pharmaco-Bot. iii. 129 It is of this shell'd Oats that they make the Grotts. 1821 Scott Kenilw. ii, A shelled pea-cod. 1828 W. Cobbett Treat. Cobbett's Corn §136 The Americans call it, and..we must call it, ‘shelled corn’. 1887 Daily News 18 July 2/5 Peas..8d to 1s per shelled pint. 1950 Chicago Tribune 20 Mar. iv. 1/3 The class of Illinois shippers primarily affected would be those who consign shelled corn to far western states. |
▪ III. shelled
variant of sheld a.