Let the unthinking golfer ruminate a little on this subject, and the day is not far distant when we shall never see such a thing as an excrescence on a golf ball.
The principal point of difference between them consists in the large size of the median horn in the Cape species, which is represented by the merest excrescence in the other species.
In the latter, the male alone carried horns, and in neither sex does the unpaired median bony excrescence appear.
His Latin Secretaryship, we infer, was now regarded as an excrescence from the Whitehall establishment, rather than an integral part of it.
Besides, a hole, an excrescence in the ground, a false step, anything, and he would be at their mercy.
It was a kind of excrescence on the natural formation of the ground, which was there smooth.
An excrescence on the inside of a shell when the outer side has been perforated.
The coloured hood of thick skin which covers the head has also been accurately described by Clytus, as well as the coloured fleshy excrescenceon the bill (palearia carunculacea).
It is an Excrescence of fungous Flesh arising in the Nostrils: But Hippocrates confounds the Carcinoma and Sarcoma with the Polypus, of which he says they are only a Species.
Now with a fine-pointed flame the glass covering the end of the small tube is heated to the softening temperature, and then is blown out to an excrescence by blowing on the end of the small tube which passes through the cork.
When as much of the extra glass has been removed as is practicable, the flame is brought to play squarely upon the little lump left, the last of the tail removed, and the lump heated and gently blown to a small excrescence on the main bulb.
The end of this excrescence is heated and blown off in the usual way, so as to leave the small tube sealed on the inside of the large one and opening through it into this short tube which has been blown out.
The smaller kinds had a round ball or excrescence on one side just below the head.
It is not improbable that this excrescence may originate in the natural growth of a shoot being checked by the punctures of aphides, or of those grubs which we have described.
Another sort ofexcrescence is not uncommon on the terminal shoots of the hawthorn.
It clusters round the branches in the form of irregular granules, about the size of a pea, very much crowded, the whole excrescencebeing rather larger than a walnut.
But the name of currant-gall seems still more appropriate to an excrescence which grows on the catkins of the oak, giving them very much the appearance of a straggling branch of currants or bird-cherries.
There was another excrescence on the walls just like it at the north-east corner, but this, though the view from it was almost more beautiful, for from it you could see the bay and the lovely mountains behind Mezzago, was exposed.
Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescenceor morbid enlargement of a bone.
A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.
An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.
An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae.
I am a preposterous excrescenceon the social cosmos,' said Clarence, eyeing him doubtfully.
Excessive ulceration sometimes assumes the form of fungous excrescence upon the cornea, appearing to derive its nourishment from loops of blood vessels of the conjunctiva.
Every other kind of excrescence attached to this membrane continues firmly adherent to it, and can not be folded and raised from the surface of the cornea in any manner whatever.
This is a horny excrescence nearly as large as the bill, which causes the bird to look as though it were wearing a hat, which it had placed for a joke on its beak rather than its head.
The bill, which has a small casque or excrescence on top, is blackish and 4 inches long.
An excrescence in a flat country--a little hump of ground!
It looked just like a lumpy excrescence on the landscape; at hame we would not even think of it as a foothill.
Perhaps, ere now, he had had a touch of that long spit-like excrescence that stood out from the kobaoba's snout.
The midwives found that mysterious excrescence upon her, and for all these crimes she was hanged, and as a proof from Heaven of the justice of her taking off there was a great tempest in Connecticut on the very hour she was executed.
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