Culm woody, at any rate at the base, leaf-blade jointed to the sheath, often with a short, slender petiole.
Culm herbaceous, annual; leaf-blade sessile, and not jointed to the sheath.
Short spikes may fall from the culm as a whole; or the axis of a spike or raceme is jointed so that one spikelet falls with each joint as in many Andropogoneae and Hordeae.
Part of this is due to better and more systematic methods of handling, and part to the saving of small sizes which formerly went to the culm banks.
Culm fossils appear in the Carnic Alps, in the Balkans and parts of Spain, also in Spitzbergen and part of New Guinea.
The Culm measures of the Devonshire district are folded into a broad syncline with its axis running east and west; but within this major fold the rocks have been subjected to much compression accompanied by minor folding.
In the last-mentioned region the thickness of the Culm formation has been estimated by D.
The sides and top are covered with culm or slack, and the heap is kindled from certain openings towards the circumference.
A layer of coals is first kindled upon the hearth, and when this is in brisk ignition, it is covered with the culm in successive sprinklings.
In a flash the auto had turned the bend in the river road, and the occupants saw the toll-bridge and the peaceful hamlet of Culm Falls.
The culm measures already alluded to consist of black shales and slates with seams of grit and chert, much undulated through enormous lateral pressure.
In the north-east of Cornwall from a line drawn from below Launceston, on the Tamar, to Boscastle the rocks belong to the culm measures of North Devon.
We speedily leave the granite and the culm measures, and are among the rocks of the Devonian series, less stern and forbidding in colour.
Each of these masses of bubbles is seen to surround the stem, upon which it clings, out of consideration to the popular tradition, spitted through the centre, as it were, with its culm of grass or branch of bramble or weed.
They follow on a considerable scale as the culm of coal mines is economically burned and made to generate steam and drive dynamos.
In America, culm is used as an equivalent for waste or slack in anthracite mining.
The Prussians, deceived by this stratagem, withdrew their forces, believing that Culm was still strongly garrisoned by sturdy knights.
The knights in Culm were induced by a stratagem to come out, when they fell into an ambuscade, and were all slain.
I cut turf, and sell lime and culm and aught else, to turn an honest penny.
He had increased the number of his team, and still travelled the country round with culm and peat, and clay and lime.
Not so theculm or the clay, and to satisfy his persistent curiosity he was promised if he would keep quiet he should witness their conversion into the hard balls.
In the long winter evenings, when the only illumination was from the culm fire, the solitary candle, or homemade rushlight, knitting and spinning filled up usefully the darkened hours.
The Culm used to be a good river at Culmstock, tormented already by a factory, but not strangled as yet by a railroad.
How it is now the present writer does not know, and is afraid to ask, having heard of a vile “Culm Valley Line.
But flint is the staple of the broad Culm Valley, under good, well-pastured loam; and here are chalcedonies and agate stones.
Slowly enough they approached the Culm houses, loitering along the moist, shining sand, over which the waves had rolled and rippled but a few hours before, and marking their devious path with straying footprints.
Well, in the first place, you must know I want to help those Culm people, somehow.
It seemed to him that there was no bright side to the life over in those wretched Culm huts.
He went into the library one afternoon and asked permission to go around to Culm and climb up to the gulls' nests on Wind Cliff.
Dirk's house was the first to undergo repairs, and Noll took every opportunity to go over to Culm to see how matters were progressing.
And, when once in the charmed circle of old friends and associations, would he not dislike to return to gray and barren Culm Rock?
Have you got those Culm savages almost civilized, you dear old Noll?
Don' know what's goin' to 'come o' them yerCulm folks!
Even the wretched littleCulm fish-huts looked almost fair and comely in this flood of light.
The borax renders the slag more fusible, and assists the formation of a larger lump (with less fine tin in the slag) than would be obtained by the use of culm alone.
When the eye has disappeared--that is, when the layer of slag has quite closed in--a pinch of powdered culm wrapped in tissue paper is added.
The mixture of ore and culm is either transferred to a black-lead crucible before the latter is put into the furnace, or, as some prefer, it is carefully swept into a crucible which has been imbedded in the fire.
Scranton, general manager of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, saying that he meant to have the men at work for fifty cents a day, and when they died bury them in a culm pile.
The Culm measures consist of grits, shales, and sandstones, with beds of chert and limestone containing fossil plants and other forms of marine life.
The upper Culm is well seen on the coast near Clovelly and by the river Torridge, where it has been bent by volcanic upheaval into curious and beautiful curves.
Two envoys from Herman were sent to Poland, where they obtained, as the chronicles of the order relate, a written title to Culm and the neighboring land as well as to all Prussia which they could conquer.
For the Prince of Mazovia nothing was left, though he asserted sovereign rights in Culm and Prussia, and would not permit the order to acquire the grant given the Brothers of Dobjin by incorporating the remaining members of that body.
The envoys offered the Teutonic masterCulm and some adjoining lands for the order, in return for curbing the Prussians.
He saw not only what the mist revealed, but what it hid, a continuation of the dreary street, running between a black hill and a blacker culm bank, and terminating in a towering breaker, shapeless and hideous in design.
The men said she would be in shortly, and that she was bringing culm for the use of Lord Cawdor’s household.
A long narrow strip of the same formation reaches out westward on the top of the Culm as far as Jacobstow.
In the central hollow the Culm reposes, while the northern and southern rims rise to the surface respectively north of the latitude of Barnstaple and South Molton and south of the latitude of Tavistock.
Dartmoor is a mass of granite that was intruded into the Culm and Devonian strata in post-Carboniferous times and subsequently exposed by denudation.
