Search the Dictionary

m insuring parcels up to $50.00, and also for sending parcels C.O.D. The rates of postage vary with the distance. See Zone, below.

same plane; -- said of sets of eyepieces so mounted that they may be interchanged without varying the focus of the instrument (as a microscope or telescope) with which they are used.

Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.

The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.

A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoöphoron.

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around s…

rds, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.

ists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc. Petroleum spirit, a volatile liquid obtained in the distillation of crude pe…

in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. "In cubic phalanx firm advanced." Milton. The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower. Pope.

the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

oroplasts perform photosynthesis only in light and within a certain range of temperature, varying according to climate. This is the only way in which a plant is able to organize carbohydrates. All plants without a chlorophyll apparatus, as the fungi, must be parasitic or saprophytic. --Pho`to*syn*thet"ic (#), a. -- Pho…

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135tan. [Written also pecul, and pecal.]

The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.…

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.

A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.