A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Any covering.
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.