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See Plastic. [R.]

In a plastic manner.

The quality or state of being plastic.

One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.

Same as Protoza.

One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm. Haeckel.

A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.

The art of forming figures in any plastic material.

A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.

Assuming, or having the power of assuming, many forms; as, a polyplastic element which does not preserve its original shape.

The portoise. See Portoise.

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

Glass with one side smooth and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the light into the interior.

A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

A mold; a matrix. [R.] Woodward.

Forming a mold.

The art of making molds for castings. [R.]

th go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.

Protoplasmic.

Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm.