It is possible that the water in the former ponds may be deficient in silica or may possess some other peculiarity that renders the production of spicules difficult for S.
The gemmules of sponges growing in lakes are sometimes deficient in spicules.
It was a somewhat remarkable title for a pirate, but perhaps its bestower was slightlydeficient in a sense of humour.
Those occasionally brought from Shanghai and Australia are considered to bedeficient in endurance, unfruitful, and generally short-lived.
Tobacco which has been exposed to bad weather is always deficient in juice and flavor, and is full of white spots, a certain sign of its bad quality.
He seemed deficient in sympathy for concrete human things either on the sunny or the stormy side.
In the mean time I shall certainly not be deficient in industry, trouble, and labor.
How comes it that a man of first-rate powers was deficient in qualities appertaining to his own profession which men less remarkable have possessed?
The lesson here is that Homo Sapiens can adapt to many different dietaries, but like any other animal, the one thing we can't adapt to is a dietary deficient in nutrition.
So a deficient mother not only shows certain structural evidence of physiological degeneration, but she makesdeficient babies.
Perhaps athletes or other hard working people in the tropics eating deficient food grown on leached-out depleted soils, people that sweat buckets day after day may need a little extra sodium.
Most of my younger patients had a poor start because they were raised on highly refined, devitalized, deficient foods, and grew up without much exercise.
But a person already deficient in minerals should watch for these symptoms and take steps to remedy the deficiencies if necessary.
A deficient female baby at birth is unlikely to completely overcome her bad start before she herself has children.
If that body receives 50 milligrams per day from a vitamin pill, to the medical doctor it could not possibly be deficient in this vitamin.
The palaces built after his designs are deficient in extent and variety, and may be termed experimental models, rather than effective illustrations, of his chaste and classical conceptions.
According to these, all dropsical accumulations arise either, 1st, From a want of tone or energy in the absorbent vessels, giving rise to a deficient absorption.
The lover is often tardy, careless, too deficient in tenderness, so that the woman has to chide him and invite his caresses.
They looked like disreputable brick-kilns, and although possessed of a door, were deficient in windows.
Large storage tanks have been erected for the accumulation of crude oil, an important provision in a country so deficient in coal.
You mean well, but a fellow isn't reported deficient unless he's so far behind that the Board has his case settled in advance.
I am aware, sir, and gentlemen, that I am at present sufficiently deficient in my studies to warrant my being dropped," Dan began rather slowly.
It must at the same time be admitted that he is bold in his speculations to the verge, and beyond the verge, of rashness; unwarrantedly confident in his assertions; deficient in sobriety; in his critical remarks even foolish.
But where I was deficient was in knowledge of the world and of my fellow-men; and here I felt that I was utterly ignorant and without experience.
I am far from agreeing with the cynic Geoffroy, who used to say that modern works were deficient in power because authors now drank only eau sucree.
They are hard, and are deficient in farinacious matter.
The brow, though sloping, was notdeficient in intelligence produced by habits of cunning.
The sly smile on his lips, the twinkle of his green eyes, the queer twitch of his snub nose, showed that he was not deficient in humor.
Men whose early culture was deficient are far more apt to be permanently sophomoric than those who lived through the sophomore at the proper time and place.
That the king was not deficient in energy and physical courage, is evident from the manner in which he signalized himself on various occasions.
If we wished to destroy you, do we appear to you to be deficient in numbers either of cavalry or infantry, or in warlike equipments, with the aid of which we might be able to do you injury, without danger of suffering any in return?
Such cheese are markedly deficient in the typical flavor of cheddar cheese.
Not all acid-forming bacteria are able to produce favorable, flavor-giving compounds; hence, sour cream butter may sometimes be deficient in flavor by reason of this fact.
It is true that the fore-milk is relatively deficient in fat so that the loss of butter fat occasioned by the rejection of the first few streams is comparatively slight.
Springs, therefore, are relatively deficient in germ life, except as they become contaminated with soil organisms, as the water issues from the ground.
The colony was lamentably deficient in clergy, and the missions that existed were chiefly to the Hottentots and Bushmen.
German ships, it was believed, were trading on the seas, while the Germans were becoming deficient in war material.
However deficient Wagner's skill in writing for the human voice, the power and symmetry of his conceptions, and his genius in embodying them in massive operatic forms, are such as to storm even the prejudices of his opponents.
Deficient in pure, graceful melody alike with Mehul, he delighted in great masses of tone and vivid orchestral colouring.
