EXUVIÆ, among naturalists, denote the cast off
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parts or coverings of animals, as the skins of serpents, caterpillars, and other insects.
EXUVIÆ is also used for some shells and other marine bodies, frequently found in the bowels of the earth; supposed to have been deposited there at the deluge, as being the real spoils of once living creatures. See DELUGE, CONCHOLGY, and GEOLOGY.
EY, in our old writers, the same with insula, "an island;" from which comes eyet, a small island or islet, vulgarly called eyght.