Then dry the pith well in a cloth, and, having scraped off all the skin, beat it well; add a little rose-water till it is very fine and without lumps.
Take the pith of an ox; wipe the blood clean from it; let it lie in water two days, changing the water very often.
Take the pith of an ox, and lay it in water for two days, changing the water night and morning.
Whereupon the said Edmund seized one fellow by the nape of the neck, and another by the waistband of his breeches, and with pith and power propelled them from the premises.
Freely on his she-friends He blood and spirit, pith and marrow, spends; Ill steward of himself, himself in three years ends.
Globe‐trotters, in weird pith hats, pause before the windows of curio‐shops which display the artistic efforts of Japan or Canton.
Our boots were filled with water, the broad brims of our pith hats hung limply over our eyes, and we were as thoroughly wet as though we had swum the Peiho.
Short piece of stem of Flax, magnified, showing the bark, wood, and pith in a cross section.
Still later, the wedges filling the space, separated only by the thin lines, or medullary rays, running from pith to bark.
Between the plates or wedges are very thin plates (in cross section lines) of much compressed cellular tissue, which connect the pith with the bark.
He was able dimly to note the difference between the pith hats of two Europeans and the smart round caps of a number of Hausa policemen.
The following was the pith of this characteristic document:-- "I am astonished to learn that you have forgotten the protection that I always gave you.
At the center or axis of the tree is the pith or medulla, Fig.
Pith rays barely distinct, pores more numerous and commonly forming a more porous spring wood zone; wood of medium weight, CANOE OR PAPER BIRCH.
Sassafras and mulberry may be confounded but for the greater weight and hardness and the absence of odor in the mulberry; the radial section of mulberry also shows the pith rays conspicuously.
Between these bundles, connecting the pith in the center with the cortex on the outside of the ring of bundles, are parts of the original pith tissue of the stem.
Stretching across these pith rays from the cambium layer in one procambium strand to that in the others, the cambium formation extends, making a complete cylindrical sheath from the bud downward over the whole stem.
Note the large size of the pith rays, A, A (end view).
In every bud, that is, at the apex of every stem and branch, the pith is the growing part; but as the stem lengthens and becomes overgrown by successive layers of wood the pith loses its vital function.
In a word, the structure of coniferous wood is very regular and simple, consisting mainly of cells of one sort, the pith rays being comparatively unnoticeable.
This is as true of the cells of pith rays, which run radially in the log, as of the ordinary cells, which run longitudinally in it.
Pores not crowded, occupying not over one-third the space between pith rays; heart-wood brownish white to very light brown .
Scoop out the pith from a small twig of elder, and having split it lengthwise, fill each of the parts with small seeds that produce flowers of different colours, but that blossom nearly at the same time.
The horn-pith contains as one of its components phosphate of lime, and is on that account recommended to the notice of the manufacturers of chemical manures on a large scale.
Therefore, in the wood, as the cells of the pith ray dry they pull on the longitudinal fibres and try to shorten them, and, being opposed by the rigidity of the fibres, the pith ray is greatly strained.
The contraction of the pith rays parallel to the length of the board is probably one of the causes of the small amount of longitudinal shrinkage which has been observed in boards.
This irregularity produces strains, which grow with the difference between adjoining cells and are greatest at the pith rays.
Rays of fundamental tissue which connect the pith with the bark.
Portion of the Firm Bodies of Fibres with Two Cells of a Small Pith Ray mr (Highly Magnified).
Since the fibres shrink as much again as the pith ray, in this its longitudinal direction, the fibres tend to shorten the ray, and the latter in opposing this prevents the former from shrinking as much as they otherwise would.
The transverse rows of square pits indicate the places of contact of these fibres and the cells of the neighboring pith rays.
Why, if ye were to read the prose of Mandeville or Wyclif, or the poetry of Robert of Brunne or Langdale, ye would find that our Scotticisms were the very pith and marrow of the English language.
At last his supplies were exhausted, and he was forced to subsist almost entirely on the pith beneath the bark of the willows.
If sufficient moisture and fertility can be maintained, many of our best varieties will thrive and produce abundantly; but to do this is the very pith of our difficulty.
The pithof our difficulty now is to make any further advance.
Pedantry and affectation were his abomination; pith and vigor, directness and comprehensiveness, the radical elements of his strength.
To the end of this thread hung a thin oblong plate of pith to which a mirror was attached.
As the pith and glass fibre form a torsion pendulum, it is evident that these beats will gradually die down in consequence of the resistance of the air.
The glass stopper being fixed, and the bulb capable of rotation through a small angle, it is evident that when the bulb is rotated the pithball will remain at rest except as it yields to the friction of the air moved by the bulb.
The unintentional abruptness of Bradish Winslow in stating the pith of Angus's complaints against the post-office, by its very shock had brought her face to face with the fact that she had tried to conceal even from herself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
