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A crossbow. See Arbalest.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

Of or pertaining to autoplasty.

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity. Barrow. Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast. -- Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast.

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

Same as Bioplast.

n itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

Bioplasmic.

of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. Thomson.

A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.

f a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.