Your tent has to protect against wind, water and snow to maintain a warm and dry climate inside.
Grisea is greyish in tint and produces a spherical egg with a spiky shell, which also is dropped into the mud.
This was Darian, not the shell of a man whose mind was stuck somewhere else.
This town has spent seventeen thousand dollars on a town-house, thank fortune or politics, but probably it will not spend so much on living wit, the true meat to put into that shell, in a hundred years.
Cade was slowly emerging from his shell, but the cat was still as wild as ever.
Damian's brother was somewhere inside the scarred shell of a man before him.
Or, papa got an answer to his newspaper ad and saved a shotgun shell by doing the bashing himself.
Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.
But a man has no more to do with the style of architecture of his house than a tortoise with that of its shell: nor need the soldier be so idle as to try to paint the precise color of his virtue on his standard.
Fascinated by the cool, smooth texture of its shell, she bumped into the counter.
- Colony of Hydractinia echinata, growthemselves; or, ing on the Shell of a Whelk.
The upper, wide opening of the duct is attached by elastic, peritoneal lamellae to the hinder margin of the left lung; the middle portion of the duct is glandular and thick-walled, for the deposition of the albumen; it is connected by a short, constricted " isthmus " (where the shell-membrane is formed) with a dilated " uterus " in which the egg receives its calcareous shell and eventual pigmentation.
Lankester in the ninth edition of this work attributed it to the pressure of the shell and visceral hump towards the right side.
Neither the rotation of the shell as a whole nor its helicoid spiral coiling is the immediate cause of the torsion of the body in the individual, for the direction of the torsion is indicated in the segmentation of the ovum, in which there is a complete A B From Lankester's Treatise on Zoology.
In some forms the coiling disappears in the adult, leaving the shell simply conical as in Patellidae, Fissurellidae, &c., and in some cases the shell is coiled in one plane, e.g.
De- nt generation of the shell occurs in some members of the order.
Trochus, shell umbilicated, spire pointed and prominent, British.
After I had learned a great many interesting things about the life and habits of the children of the sea--how in the midst of dashing waves the little polyps build the beautiful coral isles of the Pacific, and the foraminifera have made the chalk-hills of many a land--my teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind.
The cook, with her thigh broken by a shell splinter, had been carried into the kitchen.
A shell tore up the earth two paces from Pierre and he looked around with a smile as he brushed from his clothes some earth it had thrown up.
The best soils are in the west section, where limestone clays or shell marls are common.
The tower of Notre Dame, dating from 1180, is a landmark across the dunes, and the church behind it, although a shell, merits inspection.
M and M' are two permanent magnets; P and P' are soft iron pole-pieces upon which are placed the electromagnet coils C and C'; D is the diaphragm; I is a soft iron distance piece placed between the magnets at the end remote from the diaphragm; B is the brass body of the instrument, over which is placed a thin ebonite shell S.
In Hydra viridis the polyp is of a green colour and produces a spherical egg with a smooth shell which is dropped into the mud.
The Acephala, or Lamellibranchiata, are commonly known as bivalve shell-fish.
CALIPASH and Calipee (possibly connected with carapace, the upper shell of a turtle), the gelatinous substances in the upper and lower shells, respectively, of the turtle, the calipash being of a dull greenish and the calipee of a light yellow colour.
Not far from the scene of this conflict stands Balquhain Castle, a seat of the Leslies, now a mere shell, which was occupied by Queen Mary in September 1562 before the fight at Corrichie between her forces, led by the earl of Moray, and those of the earl of Huntly.
The shell heaps found on the coasts and elsewhere dispose of the theory that New Zealand was uninhabited or practically so six centuries back.
A nearer view will reveal the rich chestnut of the mantle and upper wing-coverts, and the combination of colours thus exhibited suggests the term "tortoise-shell" often applied to it - the quill-feathers being mostly of a dark brown and its lower parts pure white.
It has a royal shell factory, calico-printing mills, lignite mines, stone quarries and pottery and tobacco factories.
There are large prehistoric shell-mounds at Indian Hill, about 20 m.
Shell spiral; mantle and shell with an anterior fissure; two ctenidia; a horny operculum.
Spire of shell much reduced; two bipectinate ctenidia, the right being the smaller; no operculum.
Shell conical; slit or hole in anterior part of mantle; two symmetrical ctenidia; no operculum.
Emarginula, mantle and shell with a slit, British.
Scutum, mantle split anteriorly and reflected over shell, which has no slit.
Puncturella, mantle and shell with a foramen in front of the apex, British.
Fissurella, mantle and shell perforated at apex, British.
Shell conical, symmetrical, without slit or perforation.
Shell spirally coiled; a single ctenidium; eyes perforated; a horny operculum; lobes between the tentacles.
Movement flexure is also produced by the coiling of the visceral sac and shell; primitively the latter was bowl-shaped; but the ventral flexure, which brings together the two extremities of the digestive tube, gives the visceral sac the outline of a more or less acute cone.
The shell is represented as fixed, while the head and foot rotate from left to right.
