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Definition of SHALE
Shale Shale Shale, n. [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. [G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a
thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
Shale Shale Shale, v. t.
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.
