Meaning of inshell | Babel Free

Definitions

To enclose in a shell.

literary, rare

Examples

“’Tis Aufidius, Who, hearing of our Coriolanus’ banishment, Thrusts forth his horns again into the world; Which were inshell’d when Coriolanus stood for Rome, And durst not once peep out.”

“[…] of all men that I have ever known, no one was more reluctant to creep out of the modesty in which he had inshelled himself, than the man whom I cannot even yet think no more, feeling towards his memory as if he were still waiting for something not received.”

“Vermilion wings, by distance held To pause aflight while fleeting swift: And high aloft the pearl inshelled Her lucid glow in glow will lift:”

“Who could know what forces those two-meter hulls inshelled, or what fleets and empires waited on their signal?”

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