"inshell" definition, meaning, and origin

Adjective

Not removed from the shell.
- Live inshell scallops are preferable to frozen scallop meats.
- The insects that attack inshell peanuts consist of several species of beetles and of moths. - 1966, Calvin Golumbic, Hamilton Laudani, “Storage and Warehousing”, in Protecting our Food, United States: Department of...
- The stain […] contains iodine, which is also a permitted disinfectant for inshell eggs. - 1985 January, David Pyrah, “Staining Machine Improves Detection of Cracked Eggs”, in Agricultural Research, page 15:

From in- + shell.

A product (nut, shellfish) that has not been removed from its shell.
- Inshells are shipped in 50-pound sacks, while shelled walnut pieces are shipped in 25-pound bags'

To enclose in a shell.
- ’Tis Aufidius, Who, hearing of our Coriolanus’ banishment, Thrusts forth his horns again into the world; Which were inshell’d when Coriolanus stood for Rome, And durst not once peep out. - c. 1608–1609 (date written),...
- […] of all men that I have ever known, no one was more reluctant to creep out of the modesty in which he had inshelled himself, than the man whom I cannot even yet think no more, feeling towards his memory as if he were...
- Vermilion wings, by distance held To pause aflight while fleeting swift: And high aloft the pearl inshelled Her lucid glow in glow will lift: - 1885 October, George Meredith, “The Thrush in February”, in The Eclectic...