Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-U'VI-AE, n. [EX-U'VI-Æ; plur. L.]

1. Cast skins, shells or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off; as the skins of serpents and caterpillars, the shells of lobsters, &c. Encyc.
2. The spoils or remains of animals found in the earth, supposed to be deposited there at the Deluge, or in some great convulsion or change which the earth has undergone, in past periods. Cuvie.