| 单词 | jointed |
| 例句 | A gleaming haptic chair was suspended on a jointed hydraulic arm attached to the ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Head and body were to be in one piece, with arms and legs jointed. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Tiny fringes of hair, minute claws, jointed legs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was suspended by two jointed robotic arms anchored to my apartment’s walls and ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It soon became apparent that the stone had been cunningly jointed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His arms and legs were jointed and joined by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could be bent, giving him much freedom of movement. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Bill put the pack against one of the trees and we jointed up the rods, put on the reels, tied on leaders, and got ready to fish. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Twelve jointed legs ran along the length of its bottom, spread out, making the thing look like a sleeping lizard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The bubbling hiss drew nearer, and there was a creaking as of some great jointed thing that moved with slow purpose in the dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The carter is asleep on his jointed perch: the bullocks know the route well, they keep on without guidance from him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Mantel, whose latest novels are set in the Tudor court, said she saw Kate becoming a "jointed doll on which certain rags are hung". Kate, the 'plastic princess': Hilary Mantel's damning take on duchess 2013-02-19T08:48:03Z They also show off Mr. Lish’s sentences, which are confident, loose jointed, strewn with essential detail. ‘Preparation for the Next Life’ by Atticus Lish 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In a speech earlier this month, Mantel characterized the wife of Prince William as "a jointed doll on which certain rags were hung ... a shop-window mannequin." Tabloid slams novelist Mantel over Kate comments 2013-02-19T13:58:28Z They are built of sharp-edged, neatly jointed wood beams dyed in bright Crayola hues, incorporating circles and rectangles of mirrored and transparent plate glass. Art in Review: PATRICK HILL: ?Clumsy Angels? 2011-01-27T22:53:38Z The story accumulates from separate statements that reflect the jointed, discrete movements of a marionette. Poem of the week: Puppet by Gillian Allnutt 2012-11-19T10:39:07Z His arms and legs aren't jointed, so they don't move very well. A teddy bear manufacturer's view on Ted 2012-08-19T17:00:01Z Now the body was a complete 3D print that was designed to bend and be jointed and move and all of this. Making the bodies of “The Staircase”: The challenge of depicting Kathleen both in life and in death 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Ten jointed segments allow it to bend up and down like a rolling wave. Summer is the perfect time to spy dragonflies Like trilobites, they are arthropods, “animals with jointed legs and all the muscles and tendons tucked inside an exoskeleton.” Books of The Times: ?Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms,? by Richard Fortey 2012-04-12T19:42:43Z It was done by using stop-motion animation: jointed models filmed one frame at a time to simulate movement. Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation 2013-05-07T19:06:34Z And a delicately curved little floor piece made from carved and jointed cylinders of cottonwood brings to mind the organic-looking sculpture of Martin Puryear. Art in Review: Robert Kinmont: ‘trying to return home educated’ 2014-05-09T01:45:28Z Greene, however, said he never jointed the Oath Keepers but worked essentially as a contractor, providing security services. Capitol riot defendant gets probation after rare setback for prosecutors at Oath Keepers trial 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z That seemed the case when Broadway and singer and actress Patina Miller jointed the Ellington/Gershwin program. Commentary: Look out, New York. This is what an L.A. summer week looks like for Gustavo Dudamel 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Fungi have evolved mutualisms with numerous insects in Phylum Arthropoda: jointed, legged invertebrates. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the arthropods, one of the most successful taxonomic groups on the planet, are coelomate organisms with a hard exoskeleton and jointed appendages. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z “I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung,” Mantel wrote. What I’m Reading: Coronation Edition 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The bone, a piece of the upper jaw, closely resembles its mobile counterpart in today’s chickens or ducks, leading the researchers to conclude the ancient bird also had a jointed upper beak. New look at ancient jaw fossil rewrites bird evolution 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Ant feet have five jointed segments, with the end segment sporting a pair of claws. How do ants crawl on walls? 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The principal characteristics of all the animals in this phylum are functional segmentation of the body and presence of jointed appendages. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the adult they are tightly jointed with connective tissue and adjoining bones do not move. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Instead of seeking a new structure, Congress sent the king the Olive Branch Petition, calling again for the loosely jointed empire of 1763. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z They suspect the jointed beak was present in even older birds, because the rest of the specimen indicates it was a relative of Ichthyornis, another ancient bird that lived about 20 million years earlier. New look at ancient jaw fossil rewrites bird evolution 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The jointed arms with surgical instruments at the end are used to preform keyhole surgery, and are moved by a surgeon who controls them via a computer. Robot arms to help perform cancer operations in Wales 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z These animals are characterized by a segmented body as well as the presence of jointed appendages. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The stem of a horsetail is characterized by the presence of joints, or nodes: hence the name Arthrophyta, which means “jointed plant”. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Subsequent work by Goldman’s group has found the robot works better if its legs are jointed and the body segments are pliable. Centipedes, the ‘envy of engineers,’ inspire a new generation of robots 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Overall, the new analysis suggests a jointed beak was already present in the ancestor of modern birds, and a fused palate re-evolved later in ostriches and their kin. New look at ancient jaw fossil rewrites bird evolution 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Matt Bertone’s “Arthropods! A Coloring/Learning Guide for Young Naturalists” is stuffed with information about arthropods — invertebrate animals with exoskeletons, jointed appendages and a segmented body. Entomologist’s free coloring book on arthropods is a fun, informative tool for young naturalists 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Mosses may grow on a tree trunk, and horsetails may display their jointed stems and spindly leaves across the forest floor. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They are characterized by a segmented body and jointed appendages. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z “Most are spiny and angry, but not this one, with its leafless, jointed stems and then those wonderful flowers. I wish more people would grow them again.” With Summer Nearly Over, It’s Time to Think About Houseplants 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Several skulls of its older Ichthyornis relative have been described in recent years with bones that suggested the bird’s upper palate might have been jointed, but the evidence was still fuzzy. New look at ancient jaw fossil rewrites bird evolution 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z And the hinge happens to be the jointed device responsible for the opening and closing of doors, hence, the villainous facilitator of our partings. Opinion | Have Separation Anxiety? Try Holding a Hinge 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z In 2013 she faced criticism for likening the Duchess of Cambridge to a "shop window mannequin" who would become a "jointed doll on which certain rags are hung". Mantel 'sees racial element' in Meghan treatment 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z She has extremely expressive eyebrows that appear jointed – for every word Clarke says, and she says many, they add 15 more. Emilia Clarke: ‘I didn’t want people to think of me as sick' 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Seibold et al.1 report nearly a decade’s worth of standardized sampling of arthropods — jointed invertebrates such as insects — at grassland and forest sites. Robust evidence of declines in insect abundance and biodiversity 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Bamboo provides their reeds; cork the linings of their elegant jointed bodies. Why Carbon? 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The probe, which resembled a metal straw, slid smoothly past the liver; once it was inside the abdomen, four tiny, jointed arms emerged from the tube. Paging Dr. Robot 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z On Monday, opposition politicians jointed protesters, who are seeking talks with the army about forming a transitional government. Sudan protesters dig in despite crackdown 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The animation is excellent, from the plastic “skin” of Mark’s action figures and fashion dolls to their stiffly jointed movements. Review | Steve Carell retreats to an imaginary world in the flawed yet enjoyable ‘Welcome to Marwen’ 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Its jointed legs provide a sense that it’s bounding along the carousel. 5 wonderful carousels that are fun for kids — and adults 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z When robots were all jointed arms and motors, they executed an artist’s vision channelled by their own capacities as machines. Can robots make art? 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “I’m pretty limber, pretty double jointed at my knees and at my hips, so I thank my mom’s side of the family for that one.” Perspective | By finding out nothing broke Bryce Harper, the Nationals catch an enormous break 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Researchers first observed the jointed arm behavior in 2011 while conducting other cuttlefish experiments, noting that the cephalopod displayed the behavior while hunting and after they were introduced to a larger tank. Cuttlefish Pretend to be Crabs to Catch More Fish “You can’t really use it as building marble, because it’s too jointed,” Stanley said. The World Is Running Out of Sand 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Below it, a Noh stage with a platform of translucent optical glass appears to float over pale cypress legs that are jointed using traditional Japanese carpentry. The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z It was so well preserved, the research team were able to use 3D computer modelling to show its features - including minuscule eyes, delicate antennae, multiple jointed limbs and a tough exoskeleton. Fossil named after Sir David Attenborough - BBC News 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Friend jointed the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers over 35 years ago and in 2002 became the first woman elected president of the Arizona AFL-CIO. Rebekah Friend to step down from Arizona AFL-CIO post 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Supple-sawney: a homemade jointed doll that can be made to “dance”. 'Sonsy' campaign launched to preserve endangered American words 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The jointed sections drift apart and back a few millimeters a day, a reminder of how the natural world still inhabits even the most inanimate objects. Villa Alem: A Castle in the Sky 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “I saw her becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung,” Hilary Mantel wrote of Kate Middleton’s transformation into the Duchess of Cambridge. Who Is Melania Trump? 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Wheat in Kansas is also maturing faster than usual, with 77 percent now jointed. Rains bring much needed moisture to Kansas wheat crop 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Arthropods are segmented animals with jointed appendages, such as insects, spiders, and crustaceans. This Bizarre Creature Flew Its Babies Like Kites Some nights the venue would be jointed with girls in smudged eyeliner and flat shoes, boys with short sleeves and tribal tattoos. ‘Ireland is becoming no place for the young… we need brave people willing to be bad citizens’ 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z And as fuxianhuiids are the distant ancestors of modern arthropods - animals with jointed legs and segmented bodies including lobsters, spiders and millipedes - the study sheds new light on their evolution. 520m-year-old nervous system among oldest and most detailed ever found 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Using a specially built obstacle course, the researchers observed how cockroaches scurried in less than a second through crevices smaller than a quarter of their height by compressing their jointed exoskeletons in half. Snug as a bug: the hated cockroach inspires a helpful robot 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Arthropods are invertebrates with exoskeletons -- segmented bodies and jointed limbs, and include insects, spiders, centipedes and mites. Your House Is Literally Covered in Bugs, Study Says 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Arthropods are invertebrate animals with segmented bodies and jointed limbs, such as insects and spiders. Hundreds of tiny spiders, lice and more crawling through US homes, study says 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Both ReWalk Robotics, an Israeli firm, and Parker Hannifin, of Cleveland, Ohio, make devices that consist of an artificial pelvic girdle sporting two powered, jointed, limb-like appendages that strap to the wearer’s legs. Full metal jacket 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta jointed the meeting by telephone and reiterated her concern that releasing the video would be "extremely detrimental" to a federal criminal civil rights probe that's underway. Protesters call for prosecution of police in fatal shooting of black man in Minneapolis 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z The day camp is open to any child who loves creatures with antennae, exoskeletons, jointed feet or stingers. A summer camp where bugs are the star attraction 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z But, he failed because United Fruit was a loose jointed property existing in South America, run by locals. How Does A Rich Man Speculate? 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Comptroller Scott Stringer and several City Council members jointed activists at City Hall on Monday to protest the plan. NYC officials, activists oppose ocean gas terminal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Roomrunner were the opposite, totally absorbed in their densely jointed grooves. CMJ's opening night: Amanda X, Dune Rats, J Fernandez, Charly Bliss, Roomrunner 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The male’s organ was nearly as long as his body and fixed rigid, leading paleontologists to finally work out that the creature’s small, jointed arm-like appendages were probably of help in achieving the correct position. First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’ 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z If we calculate the gain in free energy according to the ‘freely jointed chain’ model, we gain 25kcalmol for a change of the end-to-end distance from the observed 113.4Å to the folded state. Mechanism of Tc toxin action revealed in molecular detail 2014-04-04T18:24:45.845Z The buildings on the new campus are jointed, bending them around each other and central open spaces. Google Shares Details Of Futuristic New Office Park At NASA 2013-07-09T15:30:00Z “Pipe wrench — well, I’m seeing a pipe wrench and it’s, the way it was jointed, when I was young I had a hard time figuring out how to work that,” Grandin says. Austic kids may hold key to solving complex problems 2013-06-14T01:41:59Z It’s rather that I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung. In Defense of Hilary Mantel: Royalty, Fashion and Fertility in the Public Eye 2013-02-20T08:05:23Z Nick Swisher, 4 for 26 in the playoffs, jointed the $275 million third baseman on the bench. Yankees on brink of exit after 2-1 loss to Tigers 2012-10-17T04:04:09Z The screw, turned by the wheels at g′, acts in a toothed arc, whence, as shown in the figure, equal and opposite motion is communicated to the slides by the jointed rods v, v. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Here, again, what a lamentable waste of vital force, what an invertebrate entity crying aloud to be overhauled, remodelled, jointed, and braced! The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Spikelets compressed, in a loose panicle, the hairy jointed rhachis produced into a hairy pedicel. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It would be interesting to know, her argument goes, whether the jointed doll would agree with that perception of her. In Defense of Hilary Mantel: Royalty, Fashion and Fertility in the Public Eye 2013-02-20T08:05:23Z An oblation of water must be next presented from the jointed palms of the hands, naming the deceased and the family from which he sprung, and saving “may this oblation reach thee.” The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z Figure 17 shows two hooked rods, as in the former case, attached by swivels to two opposite corners of a frame formed of four rods jointed together at their ends. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z The thorax is composed of three segments; each bears a pair of jointed legs, and in the vast majority of insects the two hindmost bear each a pair of wings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Spikelets of a single perfect or unisexual or rudimentary flower, in jointed spikes, in pairs at each joint, mostly imbedded in the thick rhachis. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z If the book is ready trimmed, edges finished, pressed—it should always be cloth jointed—it is cased in. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z The other four groups of segmented animals possess in common the feature of jointed appendages and a covering of chitinous plates, and are brought together under the term Arthropoda. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Mandibles and first maxillae modified as piercers; second maxillae fused to form a jointed, grooved rostrum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Tall woody reeds, the flat leaves with a short petiole jointed upon the sheath. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z They are furnished with two or three very long, jointed, threadlike caudal appendages. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z A second segment is then added, being set fair to the pencil circle o, and jointed and glued both to the chuck and to the ends of the first segments. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z An adult Hexapod is provided with a firm, well-chitinized cuticle and six conspicuous jointed legs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Spikelets 1-flowered, flat, more or less imbricated over each other, jointed upon the short pedicels. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Hawkesworth was of this class; and it was with feelings such as these that he saw his nicely jointed plans revolving to the end he desired. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The balsam mount is also unsatisfactory in many respects, as the body is always more or less distorted and little can be relied upon except the venation and the jointed appendages. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z These are attached to a jointed swinging frame, with flexible connections, adjustable to suit wheels of varying diameters. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The Hemiptera, with their piercing mandibles and first maxillae and with their second maxillae fused to form a jointed beak, stand far apart from them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Spikelets jointed upon the club-shaped pedicels, very deciduous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Another form of bedroom pull, with ordinary rope and tassel, consists in a box containing a jointed metal lever, standing over a stud, from which it is kept out of contact by a counter spring. Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men 2012-03-06T03:00:25.273Z Briefly, in having the body divided into thirteen joints and a subjoint, including the head as a joint, and in the adult having six true, jointed legs, and usually, though not always, wings. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z To keep the chuck true, the arms should have a level and fair bed upon the face plate, the segments composing the rim being fairly bedded to the arms and well jointed at the ends. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z I had a little jointed bed, which you would not have believed was a bed until it was set up. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z Much like the last, but the rather larger fronds puberulent beneath with minute jointed hairs and stalked glands; indusium deeply cleft into narrow segments ending in jointed hairs.—Rocky places, Minn., southward and westward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Scapes.—One-flowered; one or two inches long; jointed in the middle, with a whorl of five to seven scarious bracts at the joint. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z But there is a great variety of these larvæ, some having no legs whatever, some having only the jointed legs, and others having either four, six, eight, or ten, but never more than ten prolegs. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Opposite this space, and backed against the beautifully jointed polygonal wall which has for some time been known, and which supports the terrace on which the temple stands, is the colonnade of the Athenians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The canes are jointed, as cornstalks are, and the spongy substance between the joints is filled with a sweet juice. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z Flowers in a terminal thyrse or dense panicle, often polygamous, most of them with imperfect pistils and sterile; pedicels jointed. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z But instead of having its lip in the form of a sac, it is open and curiously jointed, the lower portion swinging freely, as upon a hinge. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z There were several linked together and apparently creeping about like a species of jointed, horrid caterpillar. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z There was something demoniac in the action of the monster, as it craned its jointed neck amid a quick chorus of jerky puffs from the engine and an accompaniment of rattling chains. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z The former is supported by means of an adjustable jointed bracket, B, attached to the wood stand. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z Styles persistent and elongated after anthesis, often plumose or jointed. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Stamens.—Two sterile; two perfect on jointed filaments. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The vessel is pivoted in a light jointed frame that admits of hanging it up or setting it down. Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.?No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:30.823Z The knife is universally jointed, to permit the hands of the operator to determine the different bevels cut. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z The pipes were jointed with 1:2 cement mortar, the outer joint being rounded over both pipes for a width of 121⁄2 cm. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z Stamens and carpels numerous, styles becoming plumose or hairy tails, or naked and straight or jointed. b. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It differs from the other umbellate-flowered genera of the Lily family in not having its flowers jointed upon their pedicels. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The stems of the tree are jointed, and the little creatures can sway the branches about and even throw them into a spiral coil so as to bring themselves near the main stem. Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. 2011-12-29T03:00:20.733Z The clicks, on the contrary, are jointed to axes fixed on the bottom of the cylinders. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z Several kinds of grass are to be found: the fine kangaroo variety; a species of wild oats; and a coarse jointed grass, all of which stock eat with relish, and thrive, it is said. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z Branching or jointed plants; the joints flattened or cylindrical. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The lip concave; saccate; eared at base; with a jointed, pendulous tip. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z This was Adam, and he had brought along a lot of new tackle, as well as a fine jointed rod, to prove that he was as good a fisherman as he was a water dog. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z Their bodies were long and jointed, and from every jointed bit little bundles of swimming hairs stuck out on both sides. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z The flowers are borne singly in the leaf-axils on a stalk about half the length of the leaf and jointed and bent in the middle; the corolla is blue-purple. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Achenes numerous, heaped on a conical or cylindrical dry receptacle, the long persistent styles forming hairy or naked and straight or jointed tails. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Its back was scaly and made in short lengths, which were jointed together in a peculiar way. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z Arthropoda, ar-throp′od-a, n.pl. a great division of the animal kingdom, the body consisting of a definite number of segments, each having a pair of hollow jointed limbs into which the body muscles proceed. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z At night they feasted on the shoals of shrimps and jointed darting creatures that filled the water over them. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Rachis generally jointed and breaking up when mature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Styles jointed and bent near the middle, the upper part deciduous and mostly hairy, the lower naked and hooked, becoming elongated; head of fruit sessile in the calyx; calyx-lobes reflexed. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A, Male moss-flower stripped of its outer leaves, showing jointed filaments and oval sacs os and antherozoid cells zc swarming out of a sac. zc�, Antherozoid cell enlarged. z, Free antherozoid. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z From it, long iron rods, jointed and movable, protruded through holes in the lid. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z He spread his wings in the sun; he shook his six jointed legs one after the other; he turned and twisted himself this way and that in his delight. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Culm herbaceous, annual; leaf-blade sessile, and not jointed to the sheath. α Spikelets upon distinct pedicels and arranged in panicles or racemes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Pod terete or 4-angled, jointed; the joints oblong.—Glabrous herbs or shrubs, with pinnate leaves, and the flowers in umbels terminating axillary peduncles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z He was bearing in one hand a jointed bamboo fish-pole, in the other a full box of tackle and flies. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z They were armed with darts, set on jointed staffs, and with swords and knives greatly curved. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z From his body six slender jointed legs with clawed toes grew slowly out, followed by four wings, which promised to be broad and beautiful when they had room to open. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Culm woody, at any rate at the base, leaf-blade jointed to the sheath, often with a short, slender petiole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Parasitic on trees, with jointed stems and opposite leaves. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The fruit is composed of two separable jointed pods, containing numerous flat-winged seeds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z They are jointed like corn-stalks, and contain a sweet liquid, as you find out after breaking off a young cane and 223 chewing it. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z Only their heads and jaws were brown as yet; their soft ringed bodies and curled-up tails and six jointed legs were all grey-green. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z The axis of the spikelet is frequently jointed and breaks up into articulations above each flower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Spikelets jointed upon the pedicels, ovate, panicled, racemed, or sometimes spiked, not involucrate, with one perfect and sometimes a second lower rudimentary or staminate flower. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The individuals of which it consists are composed of threads, jointed, either simple or branched, mostly of a grass-green colour, and propagating either by minute zoospores or by metamorphosed joints. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z The Peruvians mummified their dead and placed them jointed and huddled up with knees to chin, looking toward the sunset, with the hands held before the face. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Nor could he remember all about the trees, having so much to look at, except one with a jointed stem like a bamboo which grew not far from the bronze door. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Short spikes may fall from the culm as a whole; or the axis of a spike or raceme is jointed so that one spikelet falls with each joint as in many Andropogoneae and Hordeae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Spikelets monœcious, in jointed unilateral spikes, staminate above and fertile below. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The threads of which they are composed are jointed, and generally unbranched; they are of various tints of blue, red, and green, and, where their fructification has been ascertained, are propagated by cell division. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z Back of the head are the three rings of the thorax, each of which bears a pair of jointed legs. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z This creature had a jointed tail-foot, ending in two long style-shaped toes, and by means of this appendage executed rapid leaps or springs. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z In many-flowered spikelets the rachilla is often jointed and breaks into as many pieces as there are fruits, each piece bearing a glume and pale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Flowering glume coriaceous, at length involute so as closely to enclose the equal palet and the oblong grain; a simple untwisted and deciduous awn jointed on its apex. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The first group, Ectocarpeæ, is composed of thread-like jointed plants, the fructification of which consists of external spores, sometimes formed by the swelling of a branchlet. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z Gordon, Brunton and Gurney attempted a curious and amusing steam carriage, resembling a horse in action—having jointed legs and feet, but this animal was not successful. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z His birthday brought him not an "arrow rifle," but a light, jointed fishing-rod. St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-07-18T02:00:22.977Z He had got some powder of resin, and was about to pour it into the jointed steel gauntlet of the lance hand. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Capsule oblong or obovate, 3-angled, loculicidal, 3-valved, with several black roundish seeds in each cell.—Scape and linear leaves from a coated bulb; the flowers in a simple raceme, mostly bracted, on jointed pedicels. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Boil the meat until about half done, if chickens they should be jointed. The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner 2011-07-12T02:00:30.643Z It was not, however, like a caterpillar, which is flexible throughout its entire length, but this was, as it seemed to me, jointed in two places, one joint being more conspicuous than the other. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Let me see—long and slender, and neatly jointed; Just such another gentlewoman—that’s your daughter, sir? Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z When in position, and held firmly, the tube has to be opened to the wind by pressure of the thumb acting upon jointed levers, controlled by springs. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Stem fleshy, jointed; leaves reduced to opposite fleshy scales or teeth. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z “But you might get my fishing tackle and jointed pole and sneak ’em out to me. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z The walls of others are seamed and jointed; in some cases fragments have fallen out, and in others the entire side of the wells has been violently disrupted and partly filled with debris. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Their tall stems, ribbed and jointed, bore whorls of leaves or branchlets. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z In fact, there are no easily recognised leaves in the ordinary sense of the term, but the fluted and jointed stems perform the function of foliage. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Embryo thick, the cotyledons incumbent upon the radicle.—Low saline plants, with succulent leafless jointed stems, and opposite branches; the flower-bearing branchlets forming the spikes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z "But, Captain, I thought you were going to buy a fine jointed leg with a foot and then you would need your own right shoes." At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z Core boxes are jointed and tapered, and often have loose pieces within them, and also prints, into the impressions of which other cores are inserted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z This consisted in fitting to the engine a set of jointed legs, imitating, as nearly as the inventor could make them, the action of a horse’s legs and feet. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z Equise�tum, a genus of vascular cryptogamous plants with hollow jointed stems, type of the group Equisetales, growing in wet places, and popularly called horse-tails. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Stem simple, 1–2° high; leaves nearly as in the next; pedicels jointed at or below the middle; valves of the fruiting calyx round-heart-shaped, thin, finely reticulated, naked, many times larger than the achene. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z With this one, see the gaudy jointed fly in the plate, with "picker" at top. Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies 2011-04-04T02:00:10.823Z The filament is generally continuous from one end to the other, but in some cases it is bent or jointed, becoming geniculate; at other times, as in the pellitory, it is spiral. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Then a loose jointed fellow who walks as if his feet are too heavy to lift and just drags them, follows, and he too looks at you beseechingly.” The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z This stratum, though quite compact, and having its seams closely jointed, was not so thoroughly indurated as the lower strata of the Niagara group, and its thin plates were more easily displaced and broken up. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z Embryo placed in a groove on the outside of the albumen and curved half-way around it; the radicle and usually the cotyledons slender.—Pedicels jointed. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The bottom one is green body, and mixed wings of gaudy feathers; the body is a jointed one, of peacock green. Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies 2011-04-04T02:00:10.823Z From an inch below his knees his legs were encased in what seemed an open-meshed casing of metal, in color not unlike his tunic, jointed at the ankles to allow of motion when he walked. Palos of the Dog Star Pack 2011-03-20T02:00:36.067Z The enraptured Pansy found herself mistress of a doll of almost inconceivable beauty, with jointed limbs, and a body that could be washed in real water. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Gramps brought another rod that was not jointed but had a reel on the reel seat. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Sterile flowers numerous and lining the base of the involucre, each from the axil of a little bract, and consisting merely of a single stamen jointed on a pedicel like the filament; anther-cells globular, separate. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Its sting entered the jointed armor of its prey, just beneath the head. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Liu adds that the development of jointed legs was only one of three "critical steps" in the evolution of arthropods from lobopodians. 'Walking cactus' is arthropods' lost relative 2011-02-24T00:15:00.493Z In the care of Chokier, he discovered a polished and jointed needle-shaped bone, with a hole pierced through it, at its base. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Gramps, who was nowhere in sight when Bud entered the kitchen, appeared presently with a jointed fly rod that had a reel attached to the reel seat. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Lip free, deeply concave at base, narrowly constricted and somewhat jointed in the middle, the upper portion dilated and petaloid. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z This is well seen in the case of rocks having the basaltic structure, in which the pillars, being jointed transversely, decompose along their division planes, so as to form irregular globular masses. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z The bivalved carapace has a jointed rostrum, and covers only the front part of the body, to which it is only attached quite in front, the valve-like sides being under control of an adductor muscle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z “And the headsman’s voice, and hammer’d blows Of nails that the jointed gibbet close, And the solemn chant of the dead!” Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z Bud's, however, had been left jointed so that he had constantly to be alert for every branch, every bush, and even every twig on every branch and bush. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Style persistent, but jointed upon the very short axis of the ovary, thread-like; stigma simple. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The basaltic columns of the Giants' Causeway and the Isle of Staffa are well-known examples of such regularly jointed masses. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z It is the synod of all pates politic, jointed and laid together in the most serious posture, and they are not half so busy at the parliament. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z They are too sharply curved to pass down the bird’s throat, and, not being jointed, they cannot be doubled back in his mouth. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Indeed, the lower lip of a Dragon-Fly child might well frighten people, for it is fastened on a long, jointed, arm-like thing, and has pincers on it with which it catches and holds its food. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z Fertile glumes coriaceous, cylindrical-involute and closely embracing the smaller palet and the cylindrical grain, having a long and twisted or tortuous simple awn jointed with its apex. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The waste of the cliffs is greatly aided by the action of frost, which loosens the jointed rocks, and renders them an easier prey to the force of the waves. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z This allowed the wings to function "in combat as a jointed club or flail", the researchers write. Ancient island bird fought with club-like wings 2011-01-05T00:03:58Z Sauté in butter to a light color jointed chicken, slightly parboiled, or slices of cold cooked chicken or turkey. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z The flowers, which are jointed to the stalks, are out in May and June, and the flattened oval fruits that follow are, as already stated, at first red, then black. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Like the last, but leaves not fiddle-shaped, and panicle leafy; pedicels short, jointed below the middle; valves acutish, all grain-bearing.—Moist places. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Today, there are articulating arms for monitors, jointed extensions that allow thin monitors to be raised or lowered by about a foot. Preoccupations: In Work-Space Design, a Way to Feel at Home in the Office 2010-08-07T21:16:00Z It was as carefully jointed as if it were the floor itself. The Idyl of Twin Fires ARTICULATA, a zoological name now obsolete, applied by Cuvier to animals, such as insects and worms, in which the body displays a jointed structure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" They are jointed organs, and are of very different forms in the various species of Lepidoptera. Butterflies and Moths (British) Flowers diœcious, in short catkin-like jointed spikes, usually several to each short fleshy bract or scale, and sunk in the joint. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Another method is to cut the animal's throat with a small, very sharp, pointed knife blade, attached to the end of a ten foot jointed pole. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Anten�n�, the name given to the movable jointed organs of touch and hearing attached to the heads of insects, myriapods, &c., and commonly called horns or feelers. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Sometimes the pair of appendages has not a merely tactile jointed ramus, but is converted into a claw or clasper. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The palpi are jointed—usually in three parts—are covered with scales, and often furnished with hairs or bristles. Butterflies and Moths (British) Grain oblong, free.—Arborescent or shrubby grasses, simple or with fascicled branches, and with large spikelets in panicles or racemes; blade of the leaf jointed upon the sheath; flowers polygamous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The vertebrates usually have vertebrae, or jointed backbones, and from this the highest division takes its name; but the real test is the colour of the blood, which in the vertebrates is always red. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them Articula�ta, the third great section of the animal kingdom according to the arrangement of Cuvier, applied to invertebrates such as insects and worms, in which the body displays a jointed structure. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The third somite as well as the second develops a pair of parapodial jaws; the first somite is a prosthomere carrying jointed antennae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Pilasters, cornices, and panels are executed in cut bricks, and for arches, niches, and window heads very finely jointed bricks are employed. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Style 1, slender, hairy above, jointed near the middle. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Finally the Member for West Kensington with his crudely jointed nephew departed into the fog, and Mr. Wilmot, with an exaggerated sigh, shut the front door. Sinister Street, vol. 1 But when the pieces have no stalklets, and are not jointed with the main leaf-stalk, it may be considered either as a divided simple leaf, or a compound leaf, according to the circumstances. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools They are built of blocks of pudding-stone, originally well jointed, but now much weathered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Steam dome coverings are jointed thus longitudinally as cylinders, and the crown is jointed thereto, also by cramping. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Style jointed and bent in the middle, the upper joint plumose; flowers large; calyx erect or spreading; petals erect. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z This usually consists of an outside iron rod, jointed at the knee, attached above to a pelvic band and below to the heel of the boot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Articulated, jointed; furnished with joints or articulations, where it separates or inclines to do so. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools These are jointed for the distal half or two-thirds, and are up to 16.0 mm. in length. A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas After a while Chub stopped and jointed his pole. The Crimson Sweater Style not jointed, wholly persistent and straight; head of fruit sessile; flowers large; calyx erect or spreading. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The chief point of difference from rod-boring is the substitution of rope for the jointed rods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" A bursting antheridium, and some of the accompanying jointed threads, highly magnified. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools But we have seen that the length of the boards when jointed together was only forty-five feet. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Horace now donned the crimson sweater, threw his coat to Otto and jointed up the pole. The Crimson Sweater Fleshy and thickened mostly leafless plants, of peculiar aspect, globular or columnar and many-angled, or flattened and jointed, usually with prickles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z How much more convenient it would have been if her bill had been jointed! A-Birding on a Bronco Little good does that stud with a stallion, Fancies alien, weakly jointed, Meanly mann'd, worse appointed, Who would do, if he knew how, But, alas! he would, but cannot. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 The legs and antennae in the adult are extremely long and many jointed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" A tender fowl is chosen, jointed, and put on to stew. Gala Day Luncheons A Little Book of Suggestions Small glabrous creeping perennials, rooting in the mud, with small simple umbels and leaves reduced to hollow cylindrical jointed petioles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z He hurried back to his post at the doorway, removed the knife from his belt, jointed it, and tested the point against his finger. The Gray Mask These words from Bullard, first-class engine-driver of the C. B. & Q., a long, loosely jointed man, with the eye and build of a scout. Careers of Danger and Daring His hips and shoulder blades seemed to meet, giving his long, lank legs the appearance of a man's head on jointed stilts. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Green rye or oats should never be used for this purpose after it becomes jointed. Ducks and Geese They must be a mild-mannered nation, the Burmese, for they leave little three-year-olds in charge of a whole wilderness of clay dolls or a menagerie of jointed tigers. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel His hands, in their jointed gloves, are folded in prayer. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Like the jointed dolls of the papooses, eh? The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn The drone consists of a jointed pipe having a cylindrical bore and usually terminating in a bell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" That old brown shell of Larrabee's is jointed together so strongly that I venture to predict it will outlive us all. Anne From a fortress there would shoot out, with the speed of a meteor, a long, jointed, telescopic rod; tipped with a tiny, brilliantly-shining ball. Triplanetary These ended in complex extremities consisting of five jointed fingers. The Invader The legs are six in number, jointed in so remarkable a manner that they can be folded up one within another. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks The discharge pipe was a special feature, and consisted of a series of wooden pipes jointed together with leather hinges and floated on buoys from the dredger to the bank. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Its root is long and fusiform; the stem is round, jointed and about a yard high; the leaves have fragrant leaflets; and the fruits are brown, oval and concavo-convex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Their jointed stems and body parts are as graceful in form and motion as any lily. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Suffice to say, well or ill jointed, the story here told plucks the heart out of the mystery of the cradle of the English race at the exact period of Shakspere’s youthful manhood. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison The pressure is conveyed to the crane by means of jointed “walking” pipes, or flexible hose, connected to hydrants placed at regular intervals along the quay. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Figures resembling jumping-jacks, loosely jointed and manipulated with a string, were a means of merriment for the little ones. Oriental Women Its mellow uninflection evoked a briefly disturbing memory of a slight gray figure, jointed yet curiously flexible, and a featureless oval of face. Pet Farm The skeleton was formed of many movable jointed plates, and the creature had eyes set in the head shield just as the king crab's are set. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place And then, before he could stand up and sing a song about four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a rice pudding, out from the bushes came the savage skillery-scalery alligator with the double jointed tail. Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys To one set of vertical bars a similar number of horizontal top pieces are hinged, and to the other set levers are jointed, which hold the horizontal bars in position. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" The wealthier lords covered the front of every limb with plates of this sort, and there was jointed iron upon their hands. Poitiers The little gray jointed one followed him through the dancing and the laughter and cornered him finally against the sheer cliffside. Pet Farm They are made of columns of basalt, fitted together, like cells of a honeycomb, and jointed, forming stone blocks laid one upon another. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place The heads, when made of two or more pieces, are jointed by wooden dowel pins, and after being cut to size are chamfered or bevelled round the edge to fit into the croze grooves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" They walked erect; normally so, Gallifa could tell, because their upper limbs were too short for knuckling and were not jointed correctly for moving on all fours. The Unprotected Species They live underground, burrowing by means of the ring-like folds of the skin which simulate the jointed segments of a worm's body, and when caught they exude a viscid slime. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Statues, cartouches and ornamental medallions relieve the paneled surfaces of the stonework, the masonry of which has been laid and jointed with the utmost conceivable mechanical skill. Cathedrals of Spain Two robots guarded the entrance, stiff and towering and without movement, the early light glistening along their jointed bodies. Call Him Savage Young shoots very short jointed, dull reddish brown, slightly grayish or downy at the ends. The Apple But the whole—which, after the wont of the time, consists of several pieces jointed on to each other and all flooded with notes—suffers from the twin vices of negation and divagation. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) He was a long, slab sided, loose jointed, freckled up kid then, always wearin' a silly, good natured grin on his homely face. Side-stepping with Shorty He fell slowly, like a jointed doll, rolling down the trail. The Sensitive Man It loomed against the night, a tower of steel on jointed legs, a horrible travesty of the human figure, a head like King Arthur's helmet. Call Him Savage These were the work of the women-folk, and showed considerable ingenuity in the way the shells were jointed. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea An amusing book, rendered doubly amusing by the very numerous cuts being unmistakably jointed wooden dolls. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore These open spaces were fitted with roller screens of jointed, wooden slats, operated by weights and springs, which allowed the interior to be well lighted and thoroughly ventilated. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century He is thin and long jointed, and he goes “creak, creak,” in a weird, sing-song fashion as he dances. B-12's Moon Glow Grant felt a crawling, instinctive horror as the spider came toward him, its jointed legs moving delicately. The Wealth of Echindul The little door you had seen behind the drapery merely led into a cupboard containing boots, an artist's model–a jointed figure of wood–and other odds and ends. The House by the Lock It alighted easily upon the two long, jointed metal limbs upon which it had leapt, and continued to keep the lens-tubes turned toward Dan, so he knew that the grotesque metal thing was watching him. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 If so large as to require jointed masonry, the gabled sides will evidently require support, and an arch must be thrown across under them, as in Fig. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Now smoked the oven, and now, with the cutting lip of a shell, A butcher of ninety winters jointed the bodies well. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) The spider's sixteen jointed legs, that held his purple body three feet above the water, moved too fast for Grant to follow them. The Wealth of Echindul As it bent awkwardly over me, I saw the flexible, intricately jointed lengths of its long fingers—so delicately built that they were almost prehensile. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 And so here is young heroism with a wooden sword, and mothers practise their kind vocation over a bit of jointed stick. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Like that rumbling carriage without horses, this jointed iron man came walking toward me. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 A jointed steel or copper ring is ordinarily used. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle There is usually an agglomeration of delicate threads, either jointed or not, which are somewhat analogous to the roots of higher plants. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses I saw now the metal hinge of its lower jaw drop with astonishment, and somehow, throughout all that gigantic jointed frame and that expressionless face it conveyed the aspect of its inner surge of horror. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 His legs at the thigh were no larger than my arm, and his arms were but half the size of my wrist, and jointed twice instead of but once. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 It was a great jointed thing of dark metal some ten feet high. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 I then bathe in a low divan which contains a jointed tank. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) The mycelium, of coloured jointed threads, overlays and penetrates the matrix; from this arise erect, rigid, and usually jointed threads, of a dark brown, nearly black colour at the base, but paler towards the apex. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Its pale jointed body was some twenty feet in length, and had apparently been developed from that of a centipede, with scores of racing legs that carried it with startling speed over the rocky terrain. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The pendulous cactus was also hanging here and there on walls and tree trunks, in queer little jointed, pipe-stem branches. Due South or Cuba Past and Present They were fierce, shaggy fellows, naked from the waist up save for a kind of jointed body armor, reminiscent of a Roman legionnaire's. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 The structure itself consists of a number of separable pieces or links jointed together at their extremities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Erect jointed threads, branched in the upper portion in a fasciculate manner, and bearing long beaded threads of spores, which formed a tassel-like head, at the apex of each fertile thread. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses A curious feature of this craft was the guide rope or, as Wellman called it, the equilibrator, which was made of steel, jointed and hollow. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Its waving tentacles again were flung aloft in impotent fury, and, beneath them, where their thick ends jointed the body, a head with one horrible eye rose into the air. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The fine Roman walls, beautifully jointed, sans cement, are distinctly traceable for a circuit of perhaps three miles around the city. The Cathedrals of Northern France The legs were cylindrical, jointed at knee and thigh with huge discs. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The timbers were all cut and prepared for fitting together, and were easily jointed even in the dark. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt The prettiest of these was the jointed doll, neatly dressed in a green satin slip, and gauze apron and bib. The Fairchild Family Leaves usually but little flattened, but jointed to a short, brown petiole which is attached to a somewhat grooved twig; cones pendent, of lapping scales 94. Picea. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination If the cane is short jointed, some of the shoots should be removed and only those shoots allowed to develop which are conveniently situated for permanent arms. Manual of American Grape-Growing Here Minnie tried to make Mr. Morris pop down on his knees; but as he wasn't a jointed doll, he lost his balance, and tumbled flat on his face instead. Funny Little Socks Being the Fourth Book Two long tables extend through the room, and a smaller one occupies the dais: these tables are literally 'boards'—heavy planks jointed together resting on solid, richly-carved trestles, all black with age. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 The attacker's abdomen curved beneath its own body; the stinger jabbed between two segments of the prey's jointed length. They Twinkled Like Jewels Leaves decidedly flattened, not jointed, but narrowed to a petiole which is usually green or greenish in color. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination At the same time, the joys of fishing will often be increased if one possesses and learns how to use a light, jointed rod, with reel, fine line, and artificial baits. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 These creatures had bodies jointed like the tail of a lobster. The Meaning of Evolution They graded the roadway and then covered the whole with hewn blocks of stone, carefully jointed and cemented together so that the entire surface presented a perfectly smooth plane. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses There were no vacuum discs on them, and they moved as though supported by jointed bones—like arms. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Leafstalk dark red and jointed above the base, the veins somewhat red-tinted. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Despite the human shape of his body, despite his jointed limbs and thumbed hands, this denizen of the red planet resembled a vulture far more than he did any other Earth creature. The Great Dome on Mercury Not but that the shrimp may possess desirable nutritive qualities—may indeed be exceedingly palatable to those whose imaginations are proof against the sight of its jointed legs and arms and its ugly physiognomy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 Attached to the lower band were four jointed legs of the same bright green metal, upon which the strange thing stood. The Pygmy Planet There were the jointed arms, and the rudimentary hands. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The idea is not as original as its inventor may think, for the Japanese kokiu which is fast becoming obsolete had an extremely long and flexible bow that was jointed together like a fishing rod. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. Neck and loins require to be carefully jointed before they are put on the spit, that the carver may separate them easily and neatly. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The inside walls and ceilings will be lined with grooved and jointed planking, so as to make the house what is styled bug-proof. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand "Oh, my jointed brass body!" cried the monkey, mournfully. Prince Vance The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box The ship, so often contemplated by Chris that he knew every tiny thread and delicately jointed board, was a three-masted schooner, sleek of line, painted—at one time—a dazzling white. Mr. Wicker's Window Its jointed body, slightly longer than Grôm’s arm, was nearly as thick as his wrist, and ended at the tail with a formidable double claw. In the Morning of Time Manacles and handcuffs are for the hands, fetters are primarily chains or jointed iron fastenings for the feet; gyves may be for either. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions These are abundantly jointed with bars and bolts of the same solid and substantial kind; the seat and back being composed of sacking. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand And in the case of Edred, legs cased in armor that looked like cricket pads, ending in jointed foot-coverings that looked like chrysalises. Harding's luck It must be carefully jointed, or it is very difficult to carve. The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual The general principle of all mediæval towers was that they were entered through a small window at a great height above the ground, by means of a jointed wooden ladder. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome His first instrument was a jointed ruler with sights for fixing the position of planets with respect to the stars, and observing their stations and retrogressions. Pioneers of Science The first have a perfect plate armour—jointed and fitted and carved, piece by piece; but the inner framework is merely cartilaginous. Say and Seal, Volume I Cold fowls are nice jointed, and warmed with a little water, then taken up, and fried in butter till brown. The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner It is a fleet runner, propelling itself with its hind-legs, which are jointed like those of a kangaroo, although it goes on all fours. Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly We sat far forward, quite alone, and separated from the few passengers by the pilot-house and jointed funnel. The Maids of Paradise We pass two stations in which the hard Caithness flagstones so well known in commerce are jointed by saws wrought by machinery. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland A flower was in his buttonhole, a monocle in his eye, and the gold head of his jointed walking-stick was sucked into the red eyelet of his puckered-up lips. Cleek, the Master Detective If the curry dish is to be made of fowls, they should be jointed. The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner Dolly's tears were soon wiped and dried, and her mourning was turned into joy when a large jointed London doll emerged from the bundle, the Christmas gift of her grandmother in Boston. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Lead cannot be soldered to iron, so a brass fitting or ferrule is used; it is jointed to the lead pipe by a wiped joint, and to the iron pipe by an ordinary lead-calked joint. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) The Mylabris, therefore, must be eliminated; the antenn�, in the nymph, must be regularly jointed, as they are in the perfect insect. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The girl seized the empty bucket, pulled it over the hole, and, hanging on to the jointed poles with all her weight, sent the bucket down some thirty feet into the well below. Through Finland in Carts The chickens should be jointed, the inwards taken out, and the chickens washed. The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner You are right, doctor," said Evandale; "those accursed Egyptians jointed stones as closely as the hinges of an English trap. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The hyphomycetes are composed of a mycelium of short jointed rods or "hyphæ" springing from an axis or germinal tube which develops from the spore. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. The insect, a sort of jointed automaton, makes its channel through the massive nipple of the gourd without so much as a thought. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles I have twice seen long worms, like a thick horse-hair, in water in July in this country, which appeared hard and jointed. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The branches are numerous and in some species spiny; the narrow, often short, leaf-blade is usually jointed at the base and has a short stalk, by which it is attached to the long sheath. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Six feet through, its body was roughly spherical, and carried on those amazingly long, jointed legs. The Raid on the Termites Six feet in height and nearly twenty feet in length, it maneuvered upon its jointed legs with bewildering speed and efficiency. The Cavern of the Shining Ones Still, nothing was quite so remarkable as a white flag with a jointed staff in a neat, compact case which had been carried by a German officer. Pan-Islam For the linear measurements the surveyor had for a chain, rattans jointed together, and this, with a ten-foot rod and a common compass, formed their whole equipment. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 Are these details of curve and colour to be interpreted into jointed limbs, can the thing fling out laterally, run after us, can it catch and swallow us? The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics The bodies of these queer creatures were square blocks of a metal closely resembling steel, while for appendages, the metal cube was upheld by four jointed legs capable of movement. The Jameson Satellite They were nicely jointed and had cost several hundred francs. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Properly graded and smoothly jointed, a four-inch pipe will carry more water than even the largest boarding-house or country hotel is likely to discharge. Village Improvements and Farm Villages Then Monsignore takes from the box beneath his seat a splendidly jointed human skeleton, which he suspends from a tall rod and hook, and also a number of human skulls. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Course, the minute I asked the question I knew I’d given him a chance to slip one over on me; but I wa’n’t lookin’ for quite such a double jointed jolt. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe It is made up of countless numbers of delicate, tiny, white, jointed threads, the mycelium. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. Trunk erect, jointed, 5-sided, at the angles 2 rows of thorns. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines The soil-pipe should be of cast iron, carefully jointed with lead, not less than four inches in diameter, and carried by the straightest course possible up through the roof and generally higher than the ridge-pole. Village Improvements and Farm Villages They are composed of small bones called phalanges or internodes, which are jointed upon one another like the several parts of the human fingers. Our Bird Comrades He’s a tall, loose jointed, slope shouldered young gent, with a long, narrow face, gen’rally ornamented by a cigarette; and he has his straw colored hair cut plush. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Even the jointed snaffle and the chain snaffle leave the under surface of the jaw free from pressure, and consequently interfere comparatively little with the circulation and nervous supply of that part. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. It is certainly a product of early Greek poesy; can it be organically jointed into anything before it and after it? Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Above the table a number of jointed rods and clamps hung from the ceiling. Pandemic The staves at each end, to which the nets are permanently attached, are made of red deal, ferruled and jointed at the middle, in the manner of a fishing rod, for the convenience of carriage. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Yes, maybe I do walk a little stiff jointed; but, say, I’m satisfied to be walkin’ around at all. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Nutcracker action of jointed snaffle on horse’s mouth 73 37. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. The store of Fairy Tales in those four Books was unquestionably transmitted to him, but he has jointed them into the Ulyssiad, and into the total Odyssey, of whose structure they form the very heart. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary He indicated the jointed arms hanging over the autopsy table in the room beyond. Pandemic You must contrive to bring them into close contact; they must be jointed and glued together by the particularities of little incidents. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. It was a stiff job; for the piece, being jointed into the others on both sides, refused for a long time to yield. The Boy Tar What parts of our bodies are jointed together so nicely? Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System I can climb the jointed grass And on high See the greater swallows pass In the sky. A Child's Garden of Verses Some writers, like Collins, refer to a "jointed" or "hinged" axle, but Marestier makes no mention of such an arrangement; indeed, his sketch makes a "broken" axle impractical. The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 The other man was made all of tin, his arms and legs and head being cleverly jointed so that he could move them freely. Little Wizard Stories of Oz What do you suppose the lone fisherman of the Bible times would have thought about the gall of the jointed rod fisherman? The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 She followed us to my room, and took Pa's jointed fish pole and mauled us both until I don't want any more burgling, and my chum says he will never speak to me again. Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 Dreams might conceivably belong to this class, if they were jointed sufficiently neatly into waking life; but the chief instances are recurrent sensory hallucinations of the kind that lead to insanity. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays I found it came from an insect nearly one inch long, jointed like a lobster, the glow coming from the last two joints on the under side. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" That is most likely true, and for that reason we must carry a jointed punt-pole, and take turns standing on the back, landing and punting along through space just above the surface. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Far off, something like a long jointed bug with a single glaring light in its head was crawling toward them. Hunters Out of Space They crowded about the vision screen, jostling Xavier's jointed gray shape in their interest. Control Group Considerable trouble was had in setting these blocks level and close jointed, owing to the difficulty of leveling up the stone filling under water. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs He left drawings for a jointed bar which, at the proper time, should apparently break in two and leave him dangling to one of the pieces. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science There he took hold of the end of a jointed gas-bracket which was fixed beside the chimney, unscrewed the brass nozzle, fitted a little funnel-shaped instrument to it and blew up the pipe. The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective By her side, on a light-stand, lay the religious newspaper of her denomination, and a pair of spectacles whose jointed silver bows looked like a funny two-legged beetle cast helplessly upon its back. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories In particular, it would have needed to gain in consolidation and in firmness, which means that it would have needed also to become jointed. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions The legs are short and strong, and so loosely jointed that it can turn them in any direction when swimming. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America And Edwarda, proud though she was, and beautiful in her silks and laces, had a smooth, round, artfully jointed arm thrown across Letitia. The Rich Little Poor Boy The table top should be of hard wood or some non-absorbent material, jointed in narrow strips in order to prevent warping. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management Nothing but a couple of loosely jointed wooden dolls, fantastically dressed up in tin armour, being pulled about on a toy stage. Diversions in Sicily But now, as we have seen, for more rapid progression on hard uneven ground, a stronger and better jointed foot would be needed. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions The logs had been cut, straightened, and made to fit each other, with some sharp instrument, the corners being smoothly jointed, making the whole structure solid and impregnable to gun-shot or arrows. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West The planks are jointed at the edges so as to fit close, and the spaces between are stuffed with oakum, which is called calking. The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton I seemed to myself to be a puppet, a jointed figure, a manikin. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle What did they know of loosely jointed wooden dolls or of toy stages? Diversions in Sicily The three many jointed anal stylets may, however, be directly compared with the similar appendages of Perla and Ephemera. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses From beneath the frill extended half a dozen jointed, bone-white arms, along with waving, ribbonlike appendages less easy to define. The Winds of Time That is, the stems are short and jointed. Greener Than You Think He produced from either trousers leg the two parts of a jointed steel bar. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall They were huge, jointed things that clanked when they walked. The Guardians The abdomen ends in three long and many jointed stylets, and there are the usual "false branchial feet" along each side of the abdomen. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The pedicel is jointed in some genera and in others it is continuous with the spikelet and not jointed. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Physically he was long limbed and loose jointed, but muscular, with a strong ugly face and red hair. A History of the United States It is a spike of horse-tail; see how the stem is marked with lines, and how curiously jointed it is, and quite hollow except where the joints occur. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children "The man had a long jointed handle and a wiry brush at the end." A Little Girl in Old New York The body is long and narrow, covered with rather coarse scales, and ends in three many jointed anal stylets, or bristles, which closely resemble the many jointed antennæ, which are remarkably long and slender. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The spikelets are lanceolate, 2- to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses This wonderful temple is built of lava blocks without lime or mortar, the huge stones being jointed most accurately by tenons, mortises, and dovetails which bind them solidly together. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The three pairs of legs are jointed and used for running, climbing, jumping, swimming, digging or grasping. An Elementary Study of Insects Moquin has seen three united cherries having only a single stalk jointed to the central fruit, the lateral cherries having each a slight depression or cicatrix marking the situation of the suppressed stalks. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants It has a quite distinct head, bearing five long, slender, jointed antennæ, and but eight or nine rings to the body, which ends in two long, many jointed appendages exactly like the tentacles. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses Spikelets are one-flowered, borne unilaterally on the branches, and the base is thickened and jointed on the top of a short pedicel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses The arms and hands were of the waldo type used to handle radioactive materials in a hot lab—four jointed fingers and an opposed thumb, metal duplicates of the human hand. Unwise Child She sees one blighted, stretching forth bare limbs, blanched white by the weather, desiccated and jointed like the arms of a skeleton. The Death Shot A Story Retold The lid was pierced with a certain number of holes, whence there issued jointed and moving iron branches, which were to be held by the patients. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing Just behind the conning tower a jointed steel mast was raised and stepped by three seamen who came at the petty officer's order. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers The spikelets are jointed on their pedicels and fall away from them. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Then the stovepipe is jointed and the stove set up on the edge of green billets properly shaped. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska The roof was formed of large slabs of the same black basalt, lying as regularly, and jointed as closely as if the workmen had only just completed them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 The pieces to be jointed by this method must be carefully cleaned and held in their proper relative positions by means of iron wire. On Laboratory Arts Farther astern a narrow, ledge-like trapdoor of steel was raised, and from this was taken and stepped another steel jointed mast. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers The rachis is herbaceous, broad flexuous, jointed and bearing at each joint a solitary globose cluster of two or three perfect 1-flowered glabrous spikelets surrounded by many short spinescent glumes of imperfect ones. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Beak: any notable prolongation of the front of the head: the snout in Rhynchophora: specifically, the jointed structure covering the lancets in the hemipterous mouth. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Ned had even fetched a jointed rod along, for he liked to fish in a thoroughly sportsmanlike way, when the game was as royal in its nature as these big trout of the Canadian rivers. Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet Luke was holding a tiny torpedo-shaped object that moved freely at the end of a long, jointed metal arm. The Worshippers We end by having opinions, on both men and things, which are so delicately jointed that they can constantly twist and turn without ever breaking. The Choice of Life The main rachis of the inflorescence is usually jointed at the base. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Cerci: two lateral anal appendages; usually short, jointed, antenna- like, developed from the eleventh abdominal segment of the embryo; sometimes unjointed and specialized into forceps or other processes. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Oddest of all were his great hindlegs, which stuck up over his body like two jointed stilts. The Adventures of Maya the Bee With two jointed claws he seized Weaver's hand and straightened it out to match the other, removing the pen. The Worshippers One night as I was standing on the edge of the cliff looking out over the sand to the west, I saw a train of pack horses moving toward Walpi like a jointed, canvas-colored worm. A Daughter of the Middle Border Spikes are of one linear joint gibbously bulbous at the base, and jointed on the peduncle at the base of the spathe by a minute curved pedicel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Isoptera: equal winged: an ordinal term for insects with four, similar, net-veined wings; mouth mandibulate; thoracic rings similar, loosely jointed metamorphosis incomplete: the Termitidae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology As they were jointed in the middle, they rose high in the air above him. The Adventures of Maya the Bee Over the plains and prairies, at other times, swept the Thunder Gods, with their huge jointed wings, darkening all the land, and flashing fire from angry eyes which struck down man and beast. Myths and Legends of the Great Plains You see, you were something like a jointed walking-stick, and, naturally, it puzzled fellows. The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition The spikelets are usually 1-flowered and the rachilla is jointed at the base just above the empty glumes and it is not produced beyond the flowering glume. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Tarsus -i: the foot; the jointed appendage attached at the apex of tibia. bearing the claws and pulvilli. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology It has a long, slender body, but it has six jointed legs, which real worms don't have. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies He appropriated one of the jointed tent poles and lashed it on the fore deck of his canoe beside the queer looking sail. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters Gnome engine, was notable chiefly for its large wheels and jointed fuselage, which enabled the machine to be taken down for transport. The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition The rachilla is jointed just above the empty glumes and it is produced or not beyond the flowering glumes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Thoracic feet: the jointed legs on the thoracic segments of larvae, as distinguished from abdominal or pro-legs. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Jimmie had his camera over his back and a jointed steel rod done up in a neat little case in his hands, on his feet long rubber boots. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies The limbs are undifferentiated into upper, lower, and digital portions, and are simply jointed, flattened expansions. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata The roots are long and fibrous, and produce at their extremities numerous small, rounded or oblong, jointed, pale-brown tubers, of the size of a filbert. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. The callus of the third glume is long, densely silkily hairy with three awns not jointed at the base with the glume; awns about 1 inch or more. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Cardines: the hinge or basal sclerite of the maxilla by means of which it is jointed to the head. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Here is a far-fetched conceit, and there is an elaborately jointed comparison. Milton The tower roofs contemplate granite, lapped and jointed so as to be weatherproof, laid on iron beams and supported by iron trusses. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 This is at the hollow usually present at the base of the back of the skull, where it is jointed on to the spinal bones. Papers on Health Spikelets are small, biseriate and crowded on one side of the spike and not jointed at the base; rachilla is slender, jointed and produced beyond the flowering glumes and bearing an imperfect glume. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Basalis: the principal mandibular sclerite, when sclerites are distinguishable, to which all other parts are jointed; corresponds to the stipes in the maxilla. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology "I see nothing," he said, "but the wall and the jointed stones." Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset The centre boards are first jointed and glued up, after which the ends and sides are grooved ready to receive the cross tongues. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. From time to time the chums exchanged a few words, with Phil taking Larry to task for persisting in calling his jointed bamboo fishing rod a "pole!" Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat What looks like a spike in these cases consists of a jointed axis and each joint bears a pair of spikelets, one sessile and the other pedicelled. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Antenna -ae: two jointed, sensory organs, borne, one on each side of the head, commonly termed horns or feelers. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology As I expected, the moment Jimmy caught Jack Penny’s shoulders and placed one foot upon him my companion doubled up like a jointed rule, and Jimmy and he rolled upon the floor of the cave. Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea This obviates any tendency of the boring bit to run out of truth and thus cause unevenness on the face side of the jointed board. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. Seeing B——'s jointed and brass-mounted fishing-pole, he took it for a theodolite, and supposed that we had been on a surveying expedition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 But the rachilla of the spikelet may be jointed just above the empty glumes or between the flowering glumes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Geniculate: knee jointed: abruptly bent in an obtuse angle. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology They were chiefly people from the hotter regions of the States, and resembled each other remarkably; sallow, sharp-angled, acute-looking physiognomies: the men tall and loosely jointed; the women prematurely old, and not very handsome. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 These should be left on the jointed board from one to four hours according to the state of the weather. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. There was the white, naked skull, with its eyeless sockets, the long, flesh-less limbs, the open, serrated ribs, the long, jointed fingers of Death himself. The Rifle Rangers The spikes are compressed, 2- to 3-nate, or solitary at the ends of slender branches, with a rachis not jointed; joints are short, slender and villous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Lacinia: the inner lobe of first maxilla, articulated to the stipes, bearing brushes of hair or spines: a blade: in Diptera, forms a flat lancet-like piercing structure and is never jointed. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology These are so jointed to each other, that he cannot turn without describing a circle with his body. The Boy Hunters If light-coloured woods, such as pine, satinwood, sycamore, etc., have to be jointed, a little flake white should be procured and mixed into the liquid glue. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. The tentacle was withdrawn, and in its place appeared a jointed metal arm which ended in a knife-edge. The Status Civilization The spikes are few or many, solitary or panicled, with a jointed usually fragile rachis; the joints are rounded or compressed, hollowed on one side and excavated at the tip. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Leg -s: the jointed appendages attached to the thoracic segments, used in walking: the organs of locomotion other than wings: unjointed organs of locomotion are pro-legs or false legs; q.v. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology He sat stiffly upright, with his jointed legs bent double under him, his many arms and pincers hanging inert, save the one short shoulder-arm with flexible fingers gripping his weapon. Wandl the Invader Supporting the Joint.—The jointed boards should not be reared up against a "bench leg" or wall without having any support in the centre, as dotted line at Fig. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. As it approached, the tentacle withdrew, and in its place appeared a jointed metal arm ending in a knife-edge. The Status Civilization The spikelets are unilaterally biseriate on the rachis which is not jointed at the base. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Parapodia: the pro- or false legs: more specifically applied to the jointed abdominal processes of the Symphyla. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology In the case of several boards to be jointed into one piece, they should be glued together before the surfaces are smoothed. Handwork in Wood If the timber be jointed with all the heart side one way as at Fig. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. There was, however, another purpose connected with Mrs Turner's pursuits to which small jointed images, like artists' lay figures, were used. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 Spikelets are very small, compressed, 1- to 6-flowered, sessile or shortly pedicelled, alternate and unilateral on the branches of a panicle; the rachilla is produced between the flowering glumes, jointed at the base. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Solid: applied to an organ usually jointed, when these joints form into one mass; e.g. the capitulum of certain clavate antennae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology A complete fringe of jointed, clawed brown limbs churned in a forward-and-upward dash. Storm Over Warlock Therefore, the boards should not all be laid with the "face mark" on the shooting board whilst the edges are shot, because any inequality would be multiplied by the number of pieces jointed. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. From a fortress there would shoot out, with the speed of a meteor, a long, jointed, telescopic rod, tipped with a tiny, brilliantly shining ball. Triplanetary B. Rachilla of spikelets more or less jointed and breaking up from above downwards. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses He had grown rapidly and seemed loose jointed, but he had a kindly, honest face where ignorance really was simplicity. A Little Girl in Old Detroit They were fastened to a jointed staff, the Stars and Stripes on top and the Patrol flag below; and the butt of the staff was sharpened, to stick into the ground. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies |
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