Crossword clues for eggshell
eggshell
- Paint that dries with a sheen
- Paint finish
- Type of paint finish
- Tough exterior for one given hard time at grammar school?
- Off-white shade
- Yolk container
- Yellowish-white shade
- Yellowish white
- What a chick cracks open when hatching
- Unhatched chick's home
- Omelet-making discard
- Hatch cover?
- Fragile china, ... porcelain
- Dark cream color
- Cream relative
- Pale yellowish-white
- Shade of white
- Creamlike paint shade
- The exterior covering of a bird's egg
- Yellowish-white hue
- Wall color
- Pale color
- Eulogising extremely good woman with lines of great delicacy
- What about horses seen on moorland without a hint of foreboding or protective covering?
- Wager Ireland should brook no abomination
- Spurs having nightmare? It's a delicate case
- Fragile material goods woman kept in building wing
- Food container originally produced in layers
- Yellow and white container
- Paint with slight sheen
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
eggshell \egg"shell`\, n.
The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
(Zo["o]l.) A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.
eggshell \egg"shell`\, a.
of a pale, yellowish-white color; as, an eggshell ceiling and light green walls.
(Architecture) having a smooth but not glossy texture like that of a hen's egg; as, a latex paint giving an eggshell finish. Also referred to as matte glaze or non-lustrous glaze.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell. 2 Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell; as in ''eggshell porcelain.'' n. 1 The shell around an egg. 2 A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell.
WordNet
n. the exterior covering of a bird's egg [syn: shell]
Wikipedia
An eggshell is the outer covering of a hard-shelled egg and of some forms of eggs with soft outer coats. Bird eggshells contain calcium carbonate and dissolve in various acids, including the vinegar used in cooking. While dissolving, the calcium carbonate in an eggshell reacts with the acid to form carbon dioxide.
The color eggshell is meant as a representation of the average color of a chicken egg. Since the color of chicken eggs may vary between pale brown and white, the color is an average between those two, closer to white than pale brown, because more chicken eggs are white.
The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Eggshell (color sample #92).
In Interior design, the color eggshell is commonly used in interior design when one desires a pale, warm, neutral, off-white color.
Eggshell is the covering of an egg.
Eggshell may also refer to:
- Eggshell (color), an off-white color
- Eggshells (film), an independent film released in 1969
- Eggshells (TV series), a 1991 Australian sitcom
Usage examples of "eggshell".
They spent the last quarter hour at the office that way, Andi quietly brooding, Lena walking on eggshells and avoiding contact.
The bone splattered, the ethmoidal sinus ruptured into the olfactory bulb, which meant Les Pruel could no longer smell anything, and the copper-pointed slug did a wing-ding puree of the cerebrum taking the top of his head off like an eggshell surrendering to compressed air.
Suspended in a sea of milky white, the light of his life lay unmoving beneath a thin layer of eggshell sheets and pastel blankets, her hair haloed behind her head which was gently cradled by an oversized, hypoallergenic pillow.
And there was about it a pompous vacancy, an arrogant nonsensicalness, a latent peril resulting from such a large number of automatons in unquestioned positions, that should all logically indicate this: If Germany once broke, it would collapse somewhat like an eggshell.
Later the adults kissed Grandpa, giving him gentle abrazos so as not to cave hi his eggshell chest.
Later the adults kissed Grandpa, giving him gentle abrazos so as not to cave in his eggshell chest.
In front of the god-shape lay woven twigs and eggshells, so old as to be hardly more than dust.
Their craniums now caved in like eggshells, I dashed them to the cobblestones, spilling out their brains like porridge from broken bowls.
I tipped two and a half litres of Azzurro Blue eggshell over his head.
Beside a bronze head, such as the monk Roger Bacon possessed, which answered all the questions that were addressed to it and foretold the future by means of a magic mirror and the combination of the rules of perspective, lay an eggshell, the same which had been used by Caret, as d'Aubigne tells us, when making men out of germs, mandrakes, and crimson silk, over a slow fire.
Round about was a strew of papers, eggshells, calipers, and lenses: the birdlimed, dusty ruins, I feared, of oölogical research.
The offspring may eventually be packaged for release within a protective eggshell, together with an energy supply in the form of yolkas in all birds, many reptiles, and monotreme mammals (the platypus and echidnas of Australia and New Guinea).
I used eggshells, sulfur, vitriol, arsenic, sal ammoniac, quartz, alkalis, oxides of rock, saltpeter, soda, salt of tartar, and potash alum.
I gived it back, I did, but they'll nae let me in again, save for once a year on Littlesun Eve when I be allooed to veesit Trowland for apeerie start—but a' I gets is eggshells tae crack atween me teeth followed by a lunder upon me lugs and a wallop ower me back.
The acid in the vinegar reacts with the calcium carbonate of the eggshell.