In shape they are moderately elongated, rather regular ovals, somewhat obtuse at both ends.
The eggs apparently vary extraordinarily in size; they are generally more or less elongated ovals, some slightly pyriform and slightly obtuse at both ends, some rather pointed towards the small end.
Two eggs taken by Mr. Darling[A] are very elongated, somewhat cylindrical ovals, very obtuseat both ends.
Two eggs sent by Mr. Gammie are moderately elongated ovals, somewhat obtuse even, at the smaller end.
The eggs are precisely like those of the several species of Argya, moderately broad ovals rather obtuse at both ends, often with a pyriform tendency.
The eggs of this species vary somewhat in size and shape, but they are typically regular rather elongated ovals, rather obtuse at both ends, and often slightly compressed towards the small end.
In shape they are elongated ovals, generally very obtuse at both ends, and many of them exhibiting cylindrical or pyriform tendencies.
The eggs of the present species are like those of so many others, moderately broad ovals, obtuse at the large end, somewhat compressed towards the small end, at times slightly pyriform.
The eggs were of a reddish-white ground, thickly covered throughout with brownish-red and dusky red spots, becoming somewhat confluent round the obtuse end.
The sides of the nest are about 3/8 inch thick, and the thickness of the bottom of the nest varies according to the shape of the fork chosen, whether obtuse or acute-angled.
The two eggs of this species sent me by Miss Cockburn from Kotagherry are moderately broad ovals, very obtuseat the larger end and somewhat compressed towards the smaller.
They are mostly of a very broad oval shape, very obtuse at the smaller end.
The eggs, four in number, are white, thickly mottled at the obtuseend with purplish spots.
These figures introduce the obtuse angle, and before the children learn the shapes, they should understand clearly the difference between the right, acute, and obtuse angles.
A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
The Trientalis in moist situations had obtuse petals (see Fl.
Petal one, with a short wide tube, its disk (or border) in fiveobtuse spreading segments.
Its calyx is inconspicuous, green, in five obtuse segments.
It was perfectly circular, sixteen lines in diameter, and terminated in an obtuse oval cavity.
Head nearly one-fourth the length of the body, round, small, and terminates in an obtuse rounded snout.
His attitude is apparently that of an obtuse psychologist, who does not realise how serious the consequence of his experiments may be.
Pinnæ lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest pair deflexed and standing forward; cut into oblong, obtuse segments.
Like the obtuse Woodsia this fern has no joint near the base of the stipe, but is much smaller and has several points of difference.
Pinnæ remote at the base, roundish-ovate, very obtusewith a few crenate lobes.
Ultimate segments more obtuse than in type; has but very slight tendency towards the spatulate form of the two previous varieties.
RUBÉLLUM has the sori distinct even when mature; its pinnules stand at a wide angle from the rachis of the pinna and are strongly toothed or pinnatifid with obtuse teeth.
He was not so obtuse as to let me directly into the true cause of his wife's nervous attack and his own collectedness, and yet he felt it would not answer to make too light of it before me.
If this particular perversion is added to ego-mania, we have before us not merely the obtuse indifference towards crime which characterizes moral madness, but delight in crime.
Lombroso has examined the general sensitiveness of skin in sixty-six criminals, and has found it obtuse in thirty-eight among them, and unequal in the two halves of the body in forty-six.
Perhaps sensibility appears still more absolutely obtusefor smells than for taste.
Instead of perceiving that you are a barbarian, devoid of intelligence, and an obtuse Philistine, you wish to argue us out of our most positive sensations.
Tactile sensibility is very obtuse in general, but it is always uniformly so.
Yes, an insult; and if you were not obtuse you would see it.
The tail was not long, rather flattened and tapering to an obtuse point.
Its shape was nearly straight, then slightly contracted, forming a very obtuse angle, and afterwards swelling out like the bulb of a bristle, to its termination.
The prism is then cut in two in a plane perpendicular to the new end surfaces, the section being carried obliquely from one obtuse corner of the prism to the other, in the direction of its length.
Though hasty in temper in his early days, he had always been somewhat obtuse in intellect; but this was a case of emergency; and there is no greater sharpener of the wits than necessity.
On the north-east coast the huts have either roofs similar to the Kutcharo ones, or else the angle is very obtuse instead of being sharp, as with the Piratori or Volcano Bay huts.
In this case it should be noted that one of the obtuse angles to be considered is ABC and that the effect of this is to tilt the line BD downward from the center.
The deviation apparently is greater with obtusethan with acute angles, and when obtuse and acute angles are so placed in a figure as to give rise to opposite deviations, the greater angle will be the dominant influence.
Hering explained the Zoellner illusion as due to the curvature of the retina, and the resulting difference in the retinal images, and held that acute angles appear relatively too large and obtuse ones too small.
In this case only one side of each obtuse angle is present, the other side being formed by continuing the horizontal line both ways by means of the imagination.
An obtuse angle is that which is greater than a right angle, as E B D.
Acute and obtuse angles are both called oblique, in opposition to right angles.
O you--less hard And hateful than mistaken and obtuse Unreason of a she-intelligence!
