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The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

One who bothers.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

e nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

A chromosphere. [R.]

An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

One who ciphers.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

of the same mass. Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. Locke.

purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness. Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. Locke.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

In a coherent manner.

e assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between t…

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who coshers.

An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

One who deciphers.

A woman who deciphers.

A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.