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A layer of leather in the heel.

ght as cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, consspicuous position before the public; as, politicians who are never happy except in the limelight.…

The formation of football players before the start or a restart of play; hence (Colloq.),

a group of strata in the lower Silurian or Cambrian system of Wales, in which some of the layers contain vast numbers of a species of Lingula.

An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.

e (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno. [Often written loto.]…

" A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.

Having many folds, layers, or plates; as, a manifolded shield. [Obs.]

A killer of men; a manslayer. [Obs.] Carew.

the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.

f exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark. -- Medullary sheath (Anat.), the layer of white semifluid substance (myelin), between the primitive sheath and axis cylinder of a medullated nerve fiber.

the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.

A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.

A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.

One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.

Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers. Gray.

The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.