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The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.

A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

ugh; as, a through bridge. Through bolt, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed. -- Through bridge, a bridge in which the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over the…

A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.

The room or place where players dress for the stage.

A cover of a top layer or part. [Colloq.]

The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

An actor or player in tragedy. Shak.

; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses. -- To tread the stage, to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama.

whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope.

to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.

The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.

A company of stageplayers; a troupe. W. Coxe.

A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.

Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.

All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together. Moore (Encyc. of Music).