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cellar-rat (sel'är-rat), n. A contemptuous name for a custom-house officer employed in looking after the storage of imported goods. There was to be a standing army kept up in time of peace: custom-house officers, tide-waiters, and cellar - rats . J. B. McMaster , People of the United States, I. 461. cellar-snail (sel'är-snāl), n. A land-snail, Hyalin a cellar i a , of the family Vitrinidæ and subfamily Zonitina , having a small, depre ed, polished shell: so called from being found in cellars. It is a European species which has been introduced into the United States, and is common in the Atlantic seaport towns. cell-capsule (sel'kap"sūl), n . A thick cell-wall or readily separable cell-membrane. When such membranes attain a certain degree of thickne and independence as regards the body of the cell, they are known as cell - capsules .