Category:Shale

Shale, n. Etym: [as. scealy, scalu. See scalme, and cf. Shell.]

1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "the green shales of a bean." Chapman.

2. Etym: [g. shale.] (geol.)

Defn: a fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often Friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under bituminous.

Shale Shale, v. t.

Defn: to take off the shell or coat of; to shell. Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off Its husk. I. Taylor.