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κέλυ_φος , εος, τό,
A.sheath, case,
1. in fruits, pod, shell, Arist.GA 752a20, Thphr.HP2.4.2, etc.
2. in animals, sheath, Arist.HA 510a28.
b. τὰ κ. τῶν ᾠῶν egg-shells, Id.GA743a17; in fish, encasing membrane, Id.HA568b9; τὸ περὶ τὰς γενέσεις κ. ib.600b17.
c. envelope, of a chrysalis, ib.551a20, 601a6,8, GA758b17; of the chrysalis of the stag-beetle, Id.HA551b19.
d. shell of crustaceous fish, ib. 549b25.
e. hollow of the eye, AP9.439 (Crin.).
3. metaph., of old dicasts, ἀντωμοσιῶν κελύφη mere affidavit-husks, Ar.V.545 (lyr.); of an old man's boat, which served as his shell or coffin, AP9.242 (Antiphil.). [υ_, exc. Opp.C.3.503.] (Prob. cogn. with καλύπτω.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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