In the top of these heaps is situated the nest, which consists of a cavity a foot deep, and a foot and a half in diameter.
The 'coon had got into the buttonwood, fifty feet from the ground, where the tree had been broken off by the lightning or the wind, and where the mouth of a large cavity was distinctly visible by the light of the moon.
In a cavity at the foot of the eminence where Marimonda is, he finds, crouching, still out of breath with her struggle and her race, his fugitive.
Recollect that the flatter the tablet--surrounding the cavity left by the fish--is made, the better will be that of the model.
Make an opening into the cavity of the turkey for dipping out the inside dressing, by cutting a piece from the rear part 1, 1, called the apron.
This recipe can be varied either by preparing the leg with a stuffing, placed in the cavity after having the bone removed, or cooking it without.
Before roasting, it is dressed with a force meat or stuffing placed in the cavity from where the bone was taken out and the flap tightly secured together with skewers; many bind it together with tape.
Fill the cavity in the egg with either of these mixtures, or any similar preparation.
This vibration, in conjunction with variations of the mouth cavity of the performer, produces tones which are not unlike those of an ordinary jew's-harp but which are not so loud nor so harmonious.
The instrument is played by putting the mouth to the above-mentioned cavity and by blowing as we do in an ordinary jew's-harp.
The cavity between the palms must be tightly closed, leaving open a slit between the thumbs.
On the the reverse side there is a small cavity in the body of the instrument intended to allow sufficient room for the tongue of the harp to move while being played.
There was a cavity in the wall of this pocket-like passage.
They held the lantern inside and saw that the floor of the other cavity was about on a level with the one in which they stood.
Then, plunging my hand deep into the cavity behind, I felt something and pulled it out, with a loud cry of joy, which was echoed by my two companions.
We all stamped, and sure enough there was a cavity beneath.
Yet, although we searched hither and thither, high and low, we discovered no cavity nor any place where the casket was likely to be concealed.
The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema.
They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the gills while the fish leaves the water and travels about on land, or even climbs trees.
Then they set about hoisting the silver ore from its cavityin the bank of the river to the compound above.
I attribute it to vacuous cavity in my brain-pan, or possibly erratic convulsions of grey matter.
There's a heap of unworked ore in a cavity just beyond the compound, and Uncle said it's almost pure silver.
Suddenly he bethought himself of the mass of ore which had been tumbled into the cavity in the bank just above the Pathan miners' compound.
This may be relieved by tapping the cavity with a small hollow needle (Southey's trocar), or by passing into it a large sharp-pointed tube.
The Boca do Inferno ("Mouth of Hell") is a cavity in the rocks at Cascaes resembling the Bufador at Peniscola (q.
Formation of stamens within the cavity of the ovary.
The cavity in this case would probably be due not to any real process of excavation, but to a disproportionate growth of the outer as contrasted with the central parts of the fig.
From the angle, formed by the split segments below, proceeds a tuft of leaves, some of which appear to have traversed the central cavity and to have emerged from the summit, mingling with the other leaves in that situation.
From the figure it appears as if the lower portion of the root had been split almost to the extremity, while the upper portion seems to have a central cavity passing through it.
On the other hand, if the case be one of hypertrophy merely, the lowermost fruit is the smallest, and there is no trace of seed-bearing cavity nor of sepals.
In cases of median prolification, already referred to, the process is reversed, the central portions then elongate into a shoot and no cavity is formed.
When caught, its huge flabby head spreads out wide on the ground, its weight in connection with the great size of the mouth-cavity rendering it shapeless.
The included cavity is called the segmentation cavity, and the whole structure is known as a blastula.
In some bony fishes as the eels and female salmon the germ cells are shed into the body cavity and escape through genital pores, which, however, may not be homologous with abdominal pores.
In the sharks and rays the parasites occur mainly in the gall-ducts, in the minnows within the gill cavity and epidermis, and in the higher fishes mainly but not exclusively in the same regions.
From the blastula stage to that of the early gastrula, the changes have been but slight; the blastoderm has greatly flattened out as its margins grow downward, leaving the segmentation cavity apparent.
This is a cavity formed by the walls of the pharynx, in which are thin laminae, or plates, which undoubtedly perform an oxygenating function.
The lining membrane of the abdominalcavity is known as the peritoneum, and the membrane sustaining the intestines from the dorsal side, as in the higher vertebrates, is called the mesentery.
In a following stage of development the entoderm is seen to arch upward in the median line as a preliminary stage in the formation of the cavity of the gut.
This engine of stout muscle surrounding a cavity is called the heart.
The mouth and branchial cavity were very much distended, rounding out and distorting the whole hyoid and branchiostegal region.
These parasites grow to a very large size when compared with the fish which harbors them, often filling the abdominal cavity to such a degree as to give the fish a deceptively plump appearance.
It lies in the dorsal part of the abdominal cavity above the intestines and below the kidneys.
The cavity of the cup thus formed is the archenteron and gives rise primarily to the alimentary canal.
In this cavity sounds are repeated, and by that means conveyed to the membranous part of the lamina, which being an expansion of the auditory nerves transmits them to the mind.
The internal cavity of the ear, which is fashioned out in the temporal bone, like a cavern cut into a rock, seems to be fitted for the purposes of echoing sound with the greatest precision.
A town built at the bottom of this circular cavitywould have been utterly inaccessible.
The cavity was large, and in a few minutes the bough began to give way.
After casting another admiring glance at the blue vapour that issued from the bough some ninety feet from the ground, he passed through the cavity with alacrity.
But when one inoculates the peritoneal cavity of a Guinea pig with a dose of cholera microbes sufficient to cause a fatal disease, it is found, when the animal dies, that the microbes have died also.
They are deprived of this condition in the peritoneal cavity of an animal.
When, however, that exudate is injected into the peritoneal cavity of a second animal that animal does not succumb to the infection, or even if it succumbs one finds that the microbes have again disappeared in this second animal.
An Allen ported valve is an outside admission slide valve having an extra port from one end of the valve to the other, above the exhaustcavity and through the body of the valve.
At the same time the lower end of the cylinder is connected through exhaust cavity "b" of the main valve to the exhaust port "d", allowing the steam below the piston to escape to the atmosphere.
A cavity under ground, formed for the purpose of obtaining metals, &c.
In all probability the infection takes place in the nasal cavity first, and the germ ultimately finds its way to the coverings of the brain.
A piece of cotton dipped in dilute carbolic acid and thrust into the cavity will almost immediately relieve the suffering for the time being.
It yielded at the second effort and, sliding ponderously to one side, revealed a cavity in the stone floor some two feet long by about eighteen inches in breadth.
You know that big cavity made by the boiler-explosion?
The walls and roof of the natural cavity were formed of crystallized moisture, shaped in many grotesque and fantastic figures.
The blocks that had been removed were then shaped and fitted with knives and built up over the cavity in the drift, formulating part of the walls and the roof.
The inner wall of each cavity is straight and smooth; but from the outer wall there jut into each cavitythree small scroll-like bones.
Nearly all these parts are located in an irregularly shaped cavity hollowed out in the temporal, or "temple," bone of each side of the head.
A large, thin muscle which separates the cavity of the chest from the abdomen; a muscle of respiration.
Literally a basin; the bony cavity at the lower part of the trunk.
There are two of them, one on each side of the chest, which cavity they, with the heart, almost wholly occupy.
The very tortuous cavityof the inner ear, comprising the vestibule, semicircular canals, and the cochlea.
The root of one tooth in each jaw is cut vertically to show the cavity and the blood-vessels, etc.
Its exterior is hard and resisting, but it is porous at the broad extremities, while through the central portion there is a cavity or canal which contains an oily substance, called marrow.
The largest cavity of the body containing the liver, stomach, intestines, etc.
The large pulp-cavity of the Krapina teeth should be noted.
At the present time a commencement is being made with regard to the shape and proportions of the cavitybounded by the skull.
