Literally, the hard mother; the tough membrane which envelops the brain.
Like the membrane which envelops the heart, the pleura secretes its own lubricating fluid, in quantities sufficient to keep it always moist.
The volva which completely envelopsthe young plant is very friable and soon disappears.
Universal, used in relation to the veil or volva which entirely envelops the mushroom when young.
The volva is a membrane which envelops the entire plant in embryo, giving it the appearance of an egg.
One of the many reasons for the charm thatenvelops our life at the hillside cottage lies in the fact that it brings us much closer to the fundamental principle of keeping alive than is ever possible in town with its over-civilization.
In Spongurus and the allied genera (Spongocore, Spongoprunum) the whole central capsule is filled with a spongy framework which also envelops its surface.
It envelops the basal half of all radial spines in such a manner that their basal parts are united in its apex, and their distal parts pierce the rounded base of the conical capsule (Pl.
This mantle or veil envelops either the whole internal cortical shell or only both proximal chambers.
The genus Spongobrachium differs from the foregoing only in the loose spongy patagium, which envelops both opposite spongy arms.
External cortical shell envelops only the proximal chambers, and appears as the direct continuation of the internal shell of the distal chambers, with the same small roundish pores.
Outer cortical shell very thin, quite smooth, with irregular, roundish pores, envelops in younger specimens only the distal chambers.
The radially striped central capsule, enclosed in the inner shell, envelops a large central nucleus one-third its size, fig.
Usually it envelops the larger alveoles in the form of a reticulate veil.
The extracapsular jelly or the calymma is commonly thick, and envelops the greater part or the whole body.
Outer cortical shell envelops only the proximal chambers and the basal half of the distal chambers, appearing as the direct continuation of the microporous covering of their apical half.
The Central Capsule of the Phacodiscida is everywhere circular, lenticular, envelops the medullary shell, and is enclosed by the phacoid shell, perforated by the radial beams, which connect the latter to the former.
If the enclosing external envelops be simply latticed, we get the subfamily Larnacalpida; if they be spongy, we get the Larnacospongida.
The shadow of their sable forms envelops him with impenetrable gloom.
Meanwhile, the last notes of the song die away in the distance, and slumber, like a veil of mist floating in from the summer sea, envelops the city.
So he envelops himself in the black shadows of gloom, and, on the whole, quite prefers drawing them constantly deeper.
Similarly, the pleasure of his lust fills and envelops each spirit of hell, a common enjoyment every society in hell, and the enjoyment of all or the most widely shared enjoyment fills and envelops all hell.
A smoke like that of a conflagration envelops him through which no spiritual truth can pass with its light.
The ranks of masts and the slender rigging form a spider's web spreading across the whole horizon; and a vaporous haze, penetrated by the sun, envelops it with a reddish veil.
They learnt to paint the quiver of tremulous sunbeams radiating far and wide; they were the lyrical poets of light, which they often glorified at the expense of what it envelops and causes to live.
In his pictures nature laughs with those who are glad, mourns with those who weep, sheds her light upon the joyful, and envelops tortured spirits in storm and the terror of thunder.
No house will give the weary wanderers shelter in the night, but the shade of evening, which is gradually descending, envelops them with its melancholy peace: this is "The Flight into Egypt.
It is the duty of man to act, from the very fact that he is endowed with the attribute of the good, which envelops the idea of duty.
This din of war, this clash of tumultuous conflicting interests, is felt as a suitable accompaniment to the affecting or commanding movements of the chief characters whom it envelops or obeys.
The girls appreciate my happiness since a sense of grace envelops me.
The next, the whole colony roars out like a cataract, envelops the hive in a cloud of living dust until the queen has emerged and gives direction to the masses that slowly cohere around her as she settles on some branch.
He will live as long as the sonnets of Shakespeare live simply in virtue of the mystery that envelops their dedication.
Their relative lightness of tint and the warm suffusion of the sun-pervaded atmosphere that so frequently envelops them, makes their elevated parts seem almost to float in the sky.
But often the very cloud that envelops us is the thunderer, and the first clap is quite close at hand.
Equally wonderful is it when the winds are still and a white fog envelops your little camp.
Even to us it seems a natural part of the divine cloud that envelops the drama, in no way obscuring human passion, but rather giving to human passion an unwonted largeness and universality.
And vision fails above, below, Around, before us, at our back; The womb of nightenvelops slow The world with darkness vast and black.
Among the exotic plants belonging to the order is the cotton tree (Gossypium herbaceum), the cotton being the woolly matter which envelops the seeds in the capsule.
The gloom that envelops him is only broken by the baleful fires of his Capitoli.
The darkness thatenvelops him, issues from the depth of his own heart.
This is true of the great public opinion of an age or country whichenvelops us like an atmosphere, and by its silent pressure steadily and almost insensibly shapes or influences the whole texture of our lives.
While the true splanchnic stalk of the yolk-sack is becoming narrow, a somatic stalk connecting the amnion with the walls of the embryo is also formed, and closely envelops the stalk both of the allantois and the yolk-sack.
The splanchnopleure also envelops it, so that, morphologically speaking, the yolk lies within the mesenteron.
The vascular area gradually envelops the whole yolk, although it does so considerably more slowly than the general blastoderm.
Viewed in this light of ultimate results an imperishable and increased lustre envelops the name of Sir Walter Raleigh as the pioneer and faithful promoter of English colonization in America.
But the golden glow, which is Titian's own, envelops the contrasting figures and the contrasting hues in its harmonising atmosphere, and gives unity to the whole.
It envelops us like a tent; the mosquitoes and the night-moths dance around it.
A little silver aigrette glitters in her beautiful black chignon; her delicate and graceful figure seems strangely fantastic, and the darkness that envelops us conceals the fact that her face is almost ugly, and almost without eyes.
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