Deficient Sentence Examples

They are both deficient in solidity and in permanent interest.

Fortunately Frederick had never been deficient in courage.

Although deficient in technical training, he handled with great skill the difficult problems which were presented by the Civil War.

Boots were worn out, greatcoats deficient, transport almost unattainable and, according to modern ideas, the army would have been considered incapable of action.

For a people so accustomed to revolutionary outbreaks, the Venezuelans are singularly deficient in military organization.

Research suggests a diet deficient in enzymes contributes to the early maturation of children and teens today.

The records of Trajan's reign are miserably deficient.

Seeds buried too deeply receive a deficient supply of air.

The Tongans, who had long frequented Fiji (especially for canoe-building, their own islands being deficient in timber), now came in larger numbers, led by an able and ambitious chief, Maafu, who, by adroitly taking part in Fijian quarrels, made himself chief in the Windward group, threatening Thakombau's supremacy.

Speaking generally, when given in small doses their action on the healthy organism is slight or nil, but in disease some of them are capable of acting as substitutes for deficient secretions.

After the body becomes deficient of these nutrients over time, the brain, peripheral nervous system, bones, liver and other organs can be affected detrimentally.

Many dieters fail to stick to a calorically deficient diet for long, ending a celery stick and fruit fast with a mammoth binge.

Betazoids are natural empaths; Deanna had inherited some empathic ability from her mother, Luxwanna Troi, but was considered deficient in this skill by full-blooded Betazoids.

In such cases the vascular system is said to be polycyclic in contrast with the ordinary monocyclic condition, These internal strands or cylinders are to be regarded as peculiar types of elaboration of the stele, and probably act as reservoirs for water-storage which can be drawn upon when the water supply from the root is deficient.

The organisms do not carry on their work in soils deficient in air; hence the process is checked in water-logged soils.

This Gives One Day To Be Suppressed In Sixty Four; So That If We Suppose The Months To Contain Each Thirty Days, And Then Omit Every Sixty Fourth Day In Reckoning From The Beginning Of The Period, Those Months In Which The Omission Takes Place Will, Of Course, Be The Deficient Months.

But he adds that he found all four of them, in different degrees, deficient in insight into religious truth.

His pervading characteristic, therefore, is that of an eloquent vagueness, very stimulating and touching at times, but as deficient in coercive force of matter as it is in lasting precision and elegance of form.

The deepest water stratum in the Skagerrak is certainly of oceanic origin; it has been found to suffer changes of long period, and it is probably not always composed of water derived from the same part or the same depth of the North Atlantic; this water is, as a rule, deficient in oxygen.

If iron be given in excess, or if the hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice be deficient, iron acts directly as an astringent upon the mucous membrane of the stomach wall.

Simple, honourable, truthful, kind-hearted and high-minded as Kant was in all moral respects, he was somewhat deficient in the region of sentiment.

F Attainment of intended learning outcomes appreciably deficient in critical respects, lacking secure basis in relevant factual and analytical dimensions.

At that time there were others manufacturing artificial stone, but without success because their methods and formula proved deficient.

The existing pattern of development has allowed some areas to become deficient in services or only able to access them by the car.

The school of Cuvier was lamentably deficient in embryologists; and it was only in the course of the first thirty years of the igth century that Prevost and Dumas in France, and, later on, Ddllinger, Pander, von Bar, Rathke, and Remak in Germany, founded modern embryology; and, at the same time, proved the utter incompatibility of the hypothesis of evolution as formulated by Bonnet and Haller with easily demonstrable facts.

Heparan sulfate is mainly found in the central nervous system and accumulates in the brain when it cannot be broken down because one of those four enzymes is deficient or missing.

Most fad diets feature a very regimented, and sometimes highly deficient, meal regime.

Thus, strictly eating foods from the list of negative calorie foods is not healthy and will cause you to be deficient in the other macronutrients, such as protein and unsaturated fats.

This same research points to an enzyme deficient diet as a contributor to children and teens being overweight.

The principal symptom may show itself in general pallor, including all cases where the normal healthy green hue is replaced by a sickly yellowish hue indicating that the chlorophyll apparatus is deficient.

The lower portion of the trachea consists of thin membranes, about half a dozen of the rings being very thin or deficient.

A purely pastoral people, they move from pasture to pasture, as food becomes deficient.

Priestley displayed much ingenuity in devising apparatus suited to his requirements and in carrying out and varying his experiments; it was in the interpretation of results that he was deficient.

They were normally drawn up in more open order than the heavy Greek phalanx, and possessed thereby a mobility and elasticity in which the latter was fatally deficient.

Several of these physicians were also eminent for their clinical teaching - an art in which Englishmen had up till then been greatly deficient.

Irrigation is necessary for productiveness, and the water-supply is now deficient.

On the other hand, limestone and sandstone, especially of the Mesozoic strata, are strikingly deficient.

Buchanan on the " Challenger " were vitiated by the incompleteness of the method employed, but they are none the less of value in showing clearly that the waters of the far south of the Indian Ocean are relatively rich in carbonic acid and the tropical areas deficient.

The supply of agency for these duties is, fortunately, not deficient.

It has considerable compressive or crushing strength, but is somewhat deficient in shearing strength, and distinctly weak in tensile or pulling strength.

But he was deficient, it would seem, in the qualities that make an attractive lecturer, being harsh and indistinct in voice, ineffective in the treatment of his subject, and "singularly wanting in the language and power of illustration."

The intensity of the colour of flowers and the richness of flavour of fruit are, however, deficient where there is feebleness of light.

In "cold deserts" the want of vegetation is wholly due to the prevailing low temperature, while in "hot deserts" the surface is unproductive because, on account of high temperature and deficient rainfall, evaporation is largely in excess of precipitation.

In some cases the cellular tissue is deficient at certain points, giving rise to distinct holes in the leaf, as in Monstera Adansonii.

The rainfall was very deficient in 18 9518 97, causing famine in 1897; and in 1899-1900 there was drought in some sections.

The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety; and the writer was evidently too partial to the Latin element of our language.

The coasts are shallow, and deficient in natural ports, except on the east of Schleswig-Holstein, where wide bays encroach upon the land, giving access to the largest vessels, so that the great naval harbour could be constructed at Kiel.

The eastern part of Germany was much less known to the Romans, information being particularly deficient as to the populations of the coast districts, though it seems probable that the Rugii inhabited the eastern part of Pomerania, where a trace of them is preserved in the name Rugenwalde.

If all these are deficient in literary merit, they are deeply interesting as revelations of primitive mind and manners.

He was described by the most brilliant Eton tutor of his day, William Johnson Cory (author of Ionica), as a "portentously wise youth, not, however, deficient in fun."

As a result of this steady increase in the number of pilgrims, the old arrangements for their accommodation were found deficient.

After two years he took the degree of Ph.D., and in the autumn of 1793 received his theological certificate, stating him to be of good abilities, but of middling industry and knowledge, and especially deficient in philosophy.

Goethe's dramas, on the other hand, have not, in the eyes of his nation, succeeded in holding their own beside Schiller's; but the reason is rather because Goethe, from what might be called a wilful obstinacy, refused to be bound by the conventions of the theatre, than because he was deficient in the cunning of the dramatist.

Onias is described - in order to enhance the glory of Joseph - as a man of small intelligence and deficient in wealth.

In architectural relics of a later date than the GraecoBuddhist period Afghanistan is remarkably deficient.

In ordinary years most of this rice goes either to Europe or to the Farther East; but in famine seasons a large part is diverted to peninsular India, and Burma is the most important of the outside sources from which the deficient crops are supplemented.

All the large disks were crossed by striae, or were otherwise deficient in the necessary homogeneity and purity.

The singular fact requires to be noticed that in both these species the hind toe is generally deficient, but that examples of each are occasionally found in which this functionless member has not wholly disappeared.

Of recent years (1896-1907) the only vintages which have been deficient as regards quantity are those of 1897, 1898, 1902 and 1903, but even in the most unfavourable of these years (1898) the quantity exceeded 700 million gallons.

It is not unusual in the case of champagne to add some sugar to the must in the years in which the latter is deficient in this regard.

The vinification of the Burgundy wines takes place in cuves of 500 to 2000 gallons capacity, and it has for very many years been the common practice in vintages in which the must is deficient in saccharine to ensure the stability of the wine by the addition of some sugar in the cuve.

The ascetic instinct is probably as old as humanity, yet we must not forget that early religious practices are apt to be deficient in lofty spiritual meaning, many things being esteemed holy that are from a modern point of view trifling and even obscene.

The tree has been naturalized in many warm countries, even in China; in England it seldom attains any large size, as the deficient summer heat prevents the wood from maturing; but trees occur occasionally in plantations 20 or 30 ft.

Karim was still obliged to take shelter in Shirz, and to employ artifice in order to supply the place of the force in which he was deficient.

The most important section is that of historical works, which, although deficient in sound criticism and often spoiled by a highly artificial style, supply us with most valuable materials for our own research.

When the secretion of gastric juice is deficient it may be excited by gastric tonics, such as ten grains of bicarbonate of soda and a drachm of compound tincture of gentian in water shortly before meals, and may be supplemented by the administration of pepsin and hydrochloric acid after meals.

When the nervous system is below par, and both secretion and movements are deficient in the stomach, nervine tonics, such as nux vomica or strychnine, are most useful.

Deficient nervous action also leads to defective secretion and movement in the intestine, sometimes with flatulent accumula tion and sometimes with constipation.

But in many regions the soil is deficient in phosphates and nitrates, and large irrigation works can be profitable only in districts where the soil is exceptionally fertile.

But their abundance was equally striking in other fjords in which no fry had been planted, while in 1905 all the fjords were deficient in young cod whether they had been planted with fry from the hatchery or not.

These soils are in general rich, but deficient in nitrogen and somewhat in humus; and in limited areas white alkaline salts are injuriously in excess.

Metchnikoff showed that in animals immune to a given organism phagocytosis is present, whereas in susceptible animals it is deficient or absent.

Notwithstanding the lesson thus taught, the cultivation is being extended every year, especially in Ispahan, which abounds in streams and rivers, an advantage in which Yezd is deficient.

Physically and mentally deficient, Ivan was the mere tool of the party in Muscovy who would have kept the children of the tsar Alexis, by his second consort Natalia Naruishkina, from the throne.

These are our best authorities, but they are deficient in concrete facts.

In the drawing of character, in the invention of felicitous phrase, in the contrivance of verbal music, he is deficient.

It is deficient in mammals, of which the only varieties are the rat and bat.

The stipulations of the treaty, though deficient in precision (the Walachians, for instance, had no authentic record of the privileges enjoyed under Mahomet IV.), formed the basis of future liberties in both principalities; but for the moment all reforms were postponed.

As a thinker Saint-Simon was entirely deficient in system, clearness and consecutive strength.

For the duties of this office at such a critical time he was deficient in insight and energy, but his political success was independent of his official capacity; and when the ministry of Grey was wrecked on the Irish question in July 1834 Melbourne was chosen to succeed him as prime minister.

A census, miserably deficient (largely owing to free-state abstention and obstruction), was the basis of apportionment of delegates.

In most respects he was a perfect exponent of the ideals and foibles of his age, and when he broke a promise or repudiated a debt he was but displaying the less satisfactory side of the habitual morality of the 14th century the chivalry of which was often deficient in the less showy virtues.

The first three years of the queens reign were memorable for a constantly deficient revenue.

Large, " round-about " common sense, intellectual strength directed by a virtuous purpose, not subtle or daring speculation sustained by an idealizing faculty, in which he was deficient, is what we find in Locke.

He was critical rather than constructive, widely read and trained thoroughly both in languages and in science, but deficient in speculative power and original force.

Mineral springs are abundant and very remarkable, and specially noteworthy are the hot springs, in which the Alps, on the contrary, are very deficient.

If the observer is struck with the remarkable prominence of any one feature, it is probable that the remaining parts are deficient.

They may also be nutritionally deficient in an essential ingredient.

The work NEEDS to be supplemented, and some entries are woefully deficient -- giving only a partial definition.

Christ honors women, not call them mentally deficient.

It is markedly deficient in potassium and to some extent in phosphate and organic matter.

Lambs seriously deficient in copper, selenium or cobalt will fail to thrive.

Hinduism for Guru Nanak was deficient in that it taught social disunity and religious segregation and gave no hope of liberation to the underclasses.

We have to therefore accept that our understanding of the meaning of an ideogram evolved by a radically divergent culture may be deficient.

Studies on mutants deficient in the plant hormone gibberellin (GA) have shown that GA is required for this step.

They are already receiving full replacement with other deficient pituitary hormones.

Hippocrepis comosa is a nitrogen-fixing legume and prefers soils that are deficient in nitrogen.

People deficient in retinoids suffer night blindness and dryness of the eyes (xerophthalmia ).

Diets based mainly on silage could be deficient in vitamin E and the trace element selenium.

Observations of salinity in the depths of the western Mediterranean are very deficient, but the average is probably between 38 o and 38 5.

The fresh waters of southern Asia are deficient in the typical forms of the Acanthopterygii, and are chiefly inhabited by carp, siluroids, simple or spined eels, and the walking and climbing fishes.

Deficient in resin, the wood is more perishable than that of the spruce fir when exposed to the air, though it is said to stand well under water.

The familiar illustration of Lamarck's hypothesis is that of the giraffe, whose long neck might, he suggested, have been acquired by the efforts of a primitively short-necked race of herbivores who stretched their necks to reach the foliage of trees in a land where grass was deficient, the effort producing a distinct elongation in the neck of each generation, which was then transmitted to the next.

In the dropsy of cardiac disease, owing to the deficient oxidation from stagnation of blood, metabolic products must accumulate in the tissues; also lymph return must be impeded by the increased pressure in the veins and so dropsy results (Wells).

This increased osmotic pressure is again due to accumulation of crystalloids in the tissues, either products of metabolism due to deficient oxidation from alteration in the blood or other cause, or, it may be, as in some cases of nephritis, owing to a.

From 1882 onwards a Batjan company attempted to exploit the island, but unsuccessfully, owing to a deficient knowledge of the soil and its capabilities and a lack of labourers.

Projecting like a bastion into the Mediterranean at a very central point, Cyrenaica seems intended to play a commercial part; but it does not do so to any extent because of (1) lack of natural harbours, Bengazi and Derna having only open and dangerous roads (this is partly due to coastal subsidence; ancient ports have sunk); (2) the difficulty of the desert routes behind it, wells beings singularly deficient in this part of the Sahara.

Though, like all undisciplined races, the Sandwich Islanders [Hawaiians] have proved deficient in firm and steady perseverance, they manifest considerable intellectual capability.

At the bar Wedderburn was the most elegant speaker of his time, and, although his knowledge of the principles and precedents of law was deficient, his skill in marshalling facts and his clearness of diction were marvellous; on the bench his judgments were remarkable for their perspicuity, particularly in the appeal cases to the House of Lords.

But at the crowning moment of trial there are those who assert their belief that the woman who on her way to the field of Corrichie had uttered her wish to be a man, that she might know all the hardship and all the enjoyment of a soldier's life, riding forth "in jack and knapscull" - the woman who long afterwards was to hold her own for two days together without help of counsel against all the array of English law and English statesmanship, armed with irrefragable evidence and supported by the resentment of a nation - showed herself equally devoid of moral and of physical resolution; too senseless to realize the significance and too heartless to face the danger of a situation from which the simplest exercise of reason, principle or courage must have rescued the most unsuspicious and inexperienced of honest women who was not helplessly deficient in self-reliance and self-respect.

Though these Triumphs, as a whole, are deficient in poetic inspiration, the second canto of the Trionfo della morte, in which Petrarch describes a vision of his dead love Laura, is justly famous for reserved passion and pathos tempered to a tranquil harmony.

It is deficient in generalizations; thus, for example, it has words for the idea of carrying in the hand, carrying on the head, carrying on the shoulder, and so on, but has no word for carrying simply.

It is true that a teacher with ten times Miss Sullivan's genius could not have made a pupil so remarkable as Helen Keller out of a child born dull and mentally deficient.

Cortisol, thyroid and GH deficient, epilepsy, retinal aplasia, tetralogy of fallots (repaired).

Essential trace elements for lambs, basic facts Denied supplementary cobalt whilst grazing pasture deficient in it, the lamb will become sick.

Contrary to expectation, the weight of mice deficient in a major uncoupling protein, UCP2, has been found to be normal.

If your cat's food is heavily plant-based, there is a risk that it may be deficient in this essential nutrient if the product is not fortified with it.

Although there are more fatal reasons for which cat food could be recalled, a thiamine deficient diet is no small matter.

The recall of a nutrient deficient cat food brand should prompt pet owners to investigate the nutritional content and processing of their pet's food.

Since the average household cat has no access to other viable sources of B1, repeated intake of a deficient food product will lead to an incidentally irreversible thiamine deficiency.

Fiddling with your cat's nutritional balance because you have embraced a dietary theory can sometimes yield a diet that is dangerously deficient.

Don't think a chord chart is deficient just because it's not complete.

These exceptions are of concern since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has identified these nutrients as well as fiber, as being nutrients which Americans may be deficient.

If you have a tendency to be deficient in a particular area, you may want to also take a commercially prepared supplement.

In this way, your diet is more complete and less likely to be deficient in essential vitamins and minerals.

This often occurs when people are deficient in folate or vitamin B12.

When it is deficient, a person may feel depressed.

A diet deficient in vitamin K can cause prolonged blood-clotting time and easy bleeding and bruising.

However, individuals who are mildly or moderately deficient in the production of the lactase enzyme may not exhibit symptoms of lactose intolerance.

Children with Tourette syndrome are more likely to have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficient disorder (ADD), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

A child suffering from malnutrition is usually deficient in a variety of nutrients.

Symptoms of malnutrition vary, depending on what nutrients are deficient in the body.

Levels of somatomedin C do depend on hGH levels, however, and typically somatomedin C levels will be low when hGH levels are deficient.

Gaucher disease may be suspected, based on symptoms, and is confirmed with a blood test for levels of the deficient enzyme.

If growth hormone is not the only hormone deficiency, the doctor must prescribe ways to raise the levels of the other deficient hormones, if these options are available.

It is one of the nutrients most often found to be deficient in the Western diet.

Pregnant women whose diets are deficient in folic acid have a greater chance of having a baby with neural tube defects (NTD), such as spina bifida.

Before specific deficient enzymes were identified, MPS disorders were diagnosed by the signs and symptoms seen in an individual.

When the TS genes are defective or absent, the proteins are either absent or deficient, which allows tumor growth.

Persons who consume diets that are rich in calcium are less likely to experience a fracture than those who have diets that are deficient in calcium.

Owing to deficient ferrochelatase, the last step in the heme biosynthesis pathway-the insertion of an iron atom into a porphyrin molecule-cannot be completed.

As many as two-thirds of children with autistic symptoms are mentally deficient.

Thalassemias are classified according to the globin that is deficient.

In mild coagulopathies, treatment may involve the use of drugs that stimulate the release of deficient clotting factors.

Adolescents may chew ice due to peer pressure or because they are deficient in iron.

Prescribed hormones depend on which particular hormones are deficient or out of balance.

Parents with immunoglobulin deficient children and teenagers will likely be concerned that their children are in frequent contact with schoolmates and friends, the common route to infection.

The treatment of hemophilia involves replacing or supplementing the deficient coagulation factors.

Immunodeficiency means that the immune system is deficient in one or more of its components and is unable to respond effectively to disease-producing organisms that invade the body.

The type of organism causing repeat infection can be a clue to which immunoglobulins are deficient.

As of 2004 no specific treatment cured common variable immunodeficiency; each child is treated according to the individual clinical condition, the symptoms presented, and the antibody subclasses shown to be absent or deficient.

This type of anemia is caused by deficient erythropoiesis, the ongoing process of the bone marrow to produce healthy red blood cells (RBCs).

In another immunoglobulin disorder, IgG and IgA antibodies are deficient, and there is increased IgM.

They work together synergistically and must be chemically balanced in the body; if one is deficient or out of balance, it can affect all the others, often resulting in illness.

A child suffering from malnutrition will likely be deficient in a variety of nutrients.

Deficiencies in one nutrient do occur, however, such as in populations living in iodine-poor regions, and in iron deficient persons who lose excess iron by abnormal bleeding.

Many Americans are deficient in dietary chromium, which can be associated with poor regulation of insulin and related imbalances in glucose (either diabetes or hypoglycemia).

Experimental studies of individuals fed a manganese deficient diet have revealed that the deficiency produces a scaly, red rash on the skin of the upper torso.

Treating fluid imbalances and related deficiencies in sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate usually requires intravenous (IV) infusion of the deficient mineral in fluid over a period of time.

This occurs in many diseases, including iron deficiency anemia, thalassemia (an inherited disease in which globin chain production is deficient), and anemias associated with chronic infection or disease.

This is caused by deficient hemoglobin production.

Testosterone replacement is available for males who are deficient.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a form of adrenal insufficiency in which 21-hydroxylase, the enzyme that produces two important adrenal steroid hormones, cortisol and aldosterone, is deficient.

When 21-hydroxylase is deficient, this leads to a hyperfunction and increased size (hyperplasia) of the adrenals.

They recommend adding fish oil, flaxseed oil, or evening primrose oil to the child's diet to improve the condition of the skin, as many naturopaths believe that deficient intake of essential fatty acids is a major cause of AD.

Children with darkly pigmented skin are more likely to be vitamin D deficient than light skinned children.

Approximately 2.9 percent of boys from Saudi Arabia and 3.7 percent from India were found to have deficient color vision.

Most color vision deficient persons compensate well for their abnormality and usually rely on color cues and details that are not consciously evident to persons with typical color vision.

Iron is also important, since people who are deficient in this nutrient absorb more lead.

Amazingly though, many people are deficient in this nutrient.

For instance, if you concentrate on vitamin C, you may be deficient in vitamin E or beta-carotene.

There are a number of signs and symptoms that may appear when you are deficient in this important vitamin.

If you eat a balanced diet, chances are that you are not deficient in vitamin B 12 unless you have one of the contributing factors listed above.

If you believe yourself to be deficient in vitamin B12, it is best to consult with your personal health care provider.

There are many situations that can leave you at risk for becoming deficient in this nutrient.

He or she is the only one who can safely judge if you are deficient or not.

While you might experience these severe symptoms if you are deficient in vitamin B12, it's entirely possible to be deficient and not realize it.

Vegans and some vegetarians may be deficient in vitamin B12.

Anyone who has concerns about their diet and whether they are deficient in a particular nutrient should visit a professional nutritionist or dietitian.

In some cases you may think you're getting the selenium you need through the foods you eat, but if they have been grown in selenium deficient soil there's a good chance you may also be lacking in this essential trace mineral.

It is more likely that a person will be deficient in vitamin B12, as opposed to getting too much.

It is possible to become deficient in vitamin E even if you aren't in one of the above populations.

Learning what they are can help you to avoid becoming deficient in vitamin D or to correct the problem if you already are deficient.

If you are deficient in vitamin D, it may be attributable to one or a combination of reasons.

If you fit into any of the above populations or suspect you may be deficient in vitamin D, it is possible to get your vitamin D levels tested through a simple blood test.

If, after testing, it is determined you are deficient in vitamin D, your doctor will recommend a schedule of dietary changes and supplementation.

A simple blood test may reveal whether or not you are deficient in this essential prohormone.

How can you tell if you are deficient in vitamin D?

The only sure way to tell if you are deficient is through a simple blood test.

African Americans and people with certain gastrointestinal diseases are also at higher risk and should consider a vitamin D test to ascertain whether or not they are deficient.

When you are deficient in vitamins and minerals, it can manifest in your hair as dullness, weakness, slow growth, breakage, thinning and even pattern baldness.

Some patients who suffer from this neurological disorder were found to be deficient in this vitamin.

It is possible to be deficient in vitamin C without having scurvy, which is its severest form.

When you are deficient, you can experience symptoms, as well.

If you are deficient in vitamin D, your physician may prescribe short or long-term supplementation.

Though it only takes about fifteen minutes three times weekly to get in an individual's recommended dose of vitamin D from the sun, a large portion of those in the United States are deficient in the vitamin.

If you become deficient in vitamin K due to malabsorption, you may find you bruise easily.

Cornpositae are deficient.

A considerable hindrance to the development of the empire's resources has been the lack of an adequate system of communications; but although it is still deficient in good roads, much has been done of late years to develop railways, extend canals and improve river communications.

The branches may be depressed or elevated, so as to check or encourage them, as occasion may arise; and it is highly advantageous to keep them thin, without their becoming in any part deficient of young shoots.

Many regions suffer permanently from deficient rainfall; in others, owing to the absence of irrigation works, the water supply is lost, while the burning of the grass at the end of summer, a practice adopted by many farmers, tends to impoverish the soil and render it arid.

Even stiff soils deficient in lime are greatly improved in fertility by the addition of marls.

The formation of the blue mud is largely aided by the putrefaction of organic matter, and as a result the water deeper than 120 fathoms is extraordinarily deficient in dissolved oxygen and abounds in sulphuretted hydrogen, the formation of which is brought about by a special bacterium, the only form of life found at depths greater than 120 fathoms in the Black Sea.

In 1875, however, when the revenue had become deficient after the crisis of 1873, the io per cent.

He owed his political influence chiefly to his rank, his mild disposition, and his personal integrity, for his talents were in no sense brilliant, and he was deficient in practical energy as well as in intellectual grasp.

Solon Divided The Year Into Twelve Months, Consisting Alternately Of Twenty Nine And Thirty Days, The Former Of Which Were Called Deficient Months, And The Latter Full Months.

Chronology is deficient for all that period.

The manures of this class are of course of value only in cases where the soil is naturally deficient in them.

The calorimetric data are generally the most deficient and difficult to secure.

It must always be employed with caution in the case of elderly persons and children; and it must not be applied to a paralysed limb (in which the power of healing is deficient), nor to parts upon which the patient lies, as otherwise a bed-sore is likely to follow its use.

Again, there are in the west two well-known instances of deficient reinforcement of the young, France and Ireland, in which countries the proportion of those under 15 falls respectively 75 and 32 per mille below the standard; throwing those over 60 up to 41 and 26 per male above it.

The ethical treatises of the scholars are deficient in substance, while Ficino's attempt to revive Platonism betrays an uncritical conception of his master's drift.

This does not mean that England was deficient in ripe and sound scholars.

The coast of northern and central Chile is singularly deficient in good harbours.

In consequence of the deficient rainfall over the greater part of the country the flora is not luxuriant and there are no large forests.

These strata are practically stagnant, deficient in oxygen and surcharged with carbonic acid.

The fauna of Madagascar, while deficient in most of the characteristic tropical forms of life, is one of great interest to the naturalist from its remote affinities, much of its animal life having Asiatic rather than African relationships.

There are a polytechnic, ten high schools, navigation and trade schools, institutes for the blind and the mentally deficient, and numerous elementary schools.

In spite of the numerous references to catechumens in Patristic literature, our knowledge of the details of the system is often very deficient, and upon some points there is considerable diversity of opinion amongst experts.

A genetic male will have female genitalia as a result of the deficient testicular androgens.

Their cooperation remained deficient in other areas, however.

They may also have attention deficient hyperactivity disorder.

Because the body produces K2 on its own, it's rare for people to be deficient -- unless their bodies are unable to absorb the molecule.

The condition is often associated with the development of Type 1 diabetes mellitus (Type 1 DM) or juvenile onset diabetes.Diabetes causes elevated blood sugar levels in your blood due to deficient insulin production within your pancreas.

Hence it is that the amount of food consumed to produce a given amount of increase in live weight, as well as that required for the sustentation of a given live weight for a given time, should - provided the food be not abnormally deficient in nitrogenous substance - be characteristically dependent on its supplies of digestible and available non-nitrogenous constituents.

From the standpoint of the post-exilic age, the older delineation of the history of Israel, especially in the books of Samuel and Kings, could not but appear to be deficient in some directions, while in other respects its narrative seemed superfluous or open toi misunderstanding, as for example by recording, and that without.

There are throughout the state occasional tracts in which, owing to deficient drainage, an excess of alkali '507 has accumulated, and which require special treatment before they can be made again productive.

It is not possible to acquit Schelling of a certain disingenuousness in regard to the Hegelian philosophy; and if we claim for him perfect disinterestedness of view we must accuse him of deficient insight.

It contains a good number of theological works and of manuscripts, and is open to the public; but is deficient in modern publications.

The fragments of Sallust contain the substance of a speech delivered by Cotta in order to calm the popular anger at a deficient corn-supply.

Nevertheless it is the deficient quantity of the wheat raised in the British Islands, and not the quality of the grain, which has been the cause of so much anxiety to economists and statesmen.

As It Had Now Been Discovered That The Exact Length Of The Lunation Is A Little More Than Twenty Nine And A Half Days, It Became Necessary To Abandon The Alternate Succession Of Full And Deficient Months; And, In Order To Preserve A More Accurate Correspondence Between The Civil Month And The Lunation, Meton Divided The Cycle Into 125 Full Months Of Thirty Days, And 110 Deficient Months Of Twenty Nine Days Each.

In Order To Distribute The Deficient Months Through The Period In The Most Equable Manner, The Whole Period May Be Regarded As Consisting Of 235 Full Months Of Thirty Days, Or Of 7050 Days, From Which 1 10 Days Are To Be Deducted.

Calippus, Therefore, Proposed To Quadruple The Period Of Meton, And Deduct One Day At The End Of That Time By Changing One Of The Full Months Into A Deficient Month.

The points that suggest themselves with regard to this flora are, that it includes a fair representation of the existing orders of warm-temperate deciduous trees; that the more primitive types - such as the Amentaceae - do not appear to preponderate to a greater extent than they do in the existing temperate flora; that the assemblage somewhat suggests American affinities; and that when we take into account deficient collecting, local conditions, and the non-preservation of succulent plants, there is no reason for saying that certain other orders must have been absent.

If one condition is more necessary than another for good crops it is a suitable supply of water, for no amount of manuring or other treatment of the soil will make up for a deficient rainfall.

Generally speaking light poor lands deficient in organic matter will need the less caustic form or chalk, while quicklime will be most satisfactory on the stiff clays and richer soils.

The chief points in which they vary are - (1) in the structure of the ctenidia or branchial plates; (2) in the presence of one or of two chief muscles, the fibres of which run across the animal's body from one valve of the shell to the other (adductors); (3) in the greater or less elaboration of the posterior portion of the mantle-skirt so as to form a pair of tubes, by one of which water is introduced into the sub-pallial chamber, whilst by the other it is expelled; (4) in the perfect or deficient symmetry of the two valves of the shell and the connected soft parts, as compared with one another; (5) in the development of the foot as a disk-like crawling organ (Arca, Nucula, Pectunculus, Trigonia, Lepton, Galeomma), as a simple plough-like or tongueshaped organ (Unionidae, &c.), as a re-curved saltatory organ (Cardium, &c.), as a long burrowing cylinder (Solenidae, &c.), or its partial (Mytilacea) or even complete abortion (Ostraeacea).

In 1795, under the joint operation of a deficient harvest and the diminution in foreign supplies of grain owing to outbreak of war, the price of wheat, which, for the twenty preceding years, had been under 50s.

The land is poor in minerals, including coal; water-power also is deficient, so that the introduction of European industries is attended with difficulties even apart from the insecurity of affairs, which forbids such experiments as the improvement of agriculture by means of European capital.

In Carinella they are generally deficient and the intestine straight; in young specimens of this species, however, they occur, though less regular and more in the form of incipient foldings by which the digestive surface is, increased.

These, the grossest and most deficient of all forms, are also divided into ten degrees, each lower than the other.

Marmont and Davout were deficient in horses for cavalry and artillery, and the troops in Boulogne, having been drawn together for the invasion of England, had hardly any transport at all, as it was considered this want could be readily supplied on landing.

Brazil is lamentably deficient in steamship communication considering its importance in a country where the centres of population are separated by such distances of coasts and river.

He was as conspicuously deficient in the statesmanship as he was in the oratorical genius of such men as Flood, Plunket or Grattan.

It appears that with soils which are not rich in humus or not deficient in lime, calcium cyanamide is almost as good, nitrogen for nitrogen, as ammonium sulphate or sodium nitrate; but it is of doubtful value with peaty soils or soils containing little lime, nor is it usefully available as a top-dressing or for storing.

It is the business of the farmer and gardener to promote the activity of these organisms by good tillage, careful drainage and occasional application of lime to soils which are deficient in this substance.

It is interesting, in view of his later efforts to spread the knowledge of the Bible among the people, to know that in the capacity of examiner he insisted on a thorough acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures, and rejected several candidates who were deficient in this qualification.

The successive cavities are not, however, completely closed from each other; there is some communication between adjoining segments, and the septa are sometimes deficient here and there.

The relative inferiority of the wines made at the Cape of Good Hope and in Australia is partly due to variations of climate, the vine not yet having adapted itself to the new conditions, - and partly to the deficient skill of the manufacturers.

This is now generally done, and in some countries is compulsory, when the rocks are deficient in natural moisture.

The organization and equipment is defective, and the force deficient in numbers and discipline.

The mining industry is growing rapidly in importance in spite of costly and deficient means of communication, want of capital, and lack of general initiative.

The fall in prices was aggravated, first by the unpropitious weather and deficient harvest of the years 1816, 1817, and still more by the passing in 181 9 of the bill restoring cash payments, which, coming into operation in 1821, caused serious embarrassment to all persons who had entered into engagements at a depreciated currency, which had now to be met with the lower prices of an enhanced one.

Otherwise the Californian flora is entirely deficient in the characteristic features of that of eastern North America.

The duty of a railway with deficient plant or facilities would seem to be to make up for their absence by moderating the speeds of its trains, but public sentiment in America appears so far to have approved, at least tacitly, the combination of imperfect railways and high speeds.

His most ardent admirers, however, are constrained to admit that he was deficient in large-hearted benevolence; that he was destitute of any " enthusiasm of humanity "; and that so far as every sort of religious yearning or aspiration is concerned, his poverty was almost unique.

Compositae are comparatively rare; so also Gramineae and Cyperaceae are in some places deficient, and Labiatae, Leguminosae and ferns in others.

In others the secondary phloem is produced more abundantly in those places where the secondary xylem is deficient, so that the stem remains cylindrical in section, the phloem occupying the bays left in the xylem mass.