Word Finder - conch

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A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.

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The shell of this sea animal.

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A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.

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The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.

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To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

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To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.

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A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding.

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• conch
• conche

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A person who operates such a machine.

Following in the South Seas tradition of all Pacific Islanders, Conch and Triton seashell horns are always blown to herald the new wedding.

You must purchase a chocolate conching machine to properly conch the chocolate.

You may also come across conch chowder - a keys specialty, tiny blue crabs - a Florida delicacy and fresh scallops.

Local cuisine includes the freshest fish, lobster and the best cracked conch you'll ever taste!

Didn't want to in the big to queen conch dubbed by tourists.

Blowing the conch, you simply make Confusion worse confounded.

Conch shell, whelk shell or sharks ' teeth may also be used.

To hold a conch is to hold the history of the sea and some of its most ancient sounds!

This so-called third, upper or posterior conch is not a true conch, nor is that of the vestibulum; only the middle one forms a scroll, and this corresponds to the only one of reptiles and the lower of the mammals.

I succeeded in getting the conch so near that I could only give her about 30 fathoms of chain.

Your own correspondent makes his first foray into a local specialty, conch fritters.

Conch, Disk and Mace are the attributes held in three of Her four hands (the fourth would normally hold a lotus ).

Seafarers, whether whalers, explorers or traders. would encounter conch horns being used in all of the southern waters of the world from China to southeast Asia to South America and the Caribbean.

You can make simple wedding reception centerpieces for a Hawaiian wedding by tucking a single flower into a large conch shell.

For summer months, chose a beach or water theme and add large shells such as conch or starfish along with a fish net.

The Conch House - 625 Truman Ave.; Key West, FL 33040; (305) 293-0020; (800) 207-5806 - This 19th century inn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been restored to its original elegance.

This is expressed on the Horologium of Andronicus Cyrrhestes, called the Temple or Tower of the Winds, at Athens, where Boreas is represented as a bearded man of stern aspect, thickly clad, and wearing strong buskins; he blows into a conch shell, which he holds in his hand as a sign of his tempestuous character.

Guest ranch sponsors began in when and still being curried conch and.

Other areas of the ears which can be pierced are the tragus, anti-tragus, conch, rook, snug, daith and helix.