Man adopts new and convenient forms, and propagates them by artificial means, such as budding, grafting, the choice of seeds, etc.
One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
One who praises, orpropagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
One who inoculates; one who propagatesplants or diseases by inoculation.
The poetry that ordinarily circulates among a people is poetry of a secondary and conventional sort that propagates established ideas in trite metaphors.
Neither can it be any longer disputed that in this case, as well as in that of Leptodora and other Daphniidæ, the same female alternatelypropagates parthenogenetically, and produces eggs requiring fertilization.
Every member of the assemblage propagates itself, and is only checked by its own greater or less adaptation to the given conditions of life.
If the abnormality happens to show itself in a species, which normally propagates itself in an asexual way, the type may become a vegetative variety, and be multiplied by bulbs, buds or cuttings, etc.
No one surely will affirm that glacier-ice so closely resembles a fluid as to be capable of transmitting undulations, as water propagates rings round a disturbed point.
Man selects and propagates modifications solely for his own use or fancy, and not for the creature's own good.
This insect floating in the air, is taken with the breath into the lungs, and there it either poisons or propagatesits kind, so as to produce that dreadful disease.
This gilled salamander generally remains in the water, with its aquatic organs of respiration, and also propagates itself there.
This privileged individual remains the victor in the struggle, and propagates itself, while its fellow-competitors perish before they succeed in propagating themselves.
Neither food nor drink propagates the disease, he thinks, for, so far as the fruits are concerned, he too had seen it prevail before the fruits were ripe.
Blood accumulates in the veins and capillaries, and morbid action propagates itself in a direction contrary to the circulation.
One of the most remarkable facts in the economy of the telegraph is, that the line, when connected with a battery in action, propagates the hydro-galvanic waves in either direction without interference.
It thus propagates barbarism from age to age, till at last it involves both master and slave in a common ruin.
This species propagates itself indeed in the Axolotl state, but in many cases it becomes transformed into Amblystoma and takes to the land.
Whilst the Axolotl propagates regularly and freely every year, this occurs with the Amblystoma but rarely and sparsely.
Although propagation in the Amblystoma condition was not observed, it can hardly be doubted that it also propagates in this form.
It is true that they have as yet scarcely reached the age of two years, but the Axolotl propagates freely in the second year, and some of Duméril’s Amblystomas were five years old in 1870.
The second point suggested is, that the proper value of Christ's life consists in this--that it propagates similar lives.
Good propagates itself as well as evil if given a chance, and Mr. Young soon had far more fruit than was needed by his family, and he resolved to try the fortunes of his favorite in New York market.
Unlike others of its class, it does not root from the tips, but propagates itself by suckers, producing them sparingly, however.
It suckers freely, and also propagates itself sparingly from the tips.
Propagates with readiness by seeds, which should be sown as soon as ripe.
The black raspberry propagates itself naturally by means of layers, and it is only necessary, in most cases, to bring the soil into a mellow condition when the tips begin to touch the ground in order that they may find anchorage.
So long as the smallest piece of root is left the weed springs up again and propagates itself with surprising rapidity, though the cultivator thought he had exterminated it.
The Protestant church is by analogy the umbilical cord through which England connects herself materially with Ireland; through that she propagatesher milder influence; that gone, the rest would offer only coercive influence.
But the profligacies of the preceding monarch, and the tribe of fools and knaves whom those profligacies as naturally gathered round him as the plague propagates its own contagion, met with no mercy.
And this generates Punctuality in you; for, like other virtues, it propagates itself.
The destructive influence of an unwholesome dwelling propagates a moral typhus worse than the plague itself.
When once established it propagates itself freely by seed.
It propagates itself freely by offsets; if it is intended to remove them from the parent plant, it should be done early in summer, so that they may become established before winter, otherwise the frosts will lift them out of position.
It propagates itself freely by its root runners near the surface.
It enjoys a vegetable soil well drained, and propagates itself by its creeping roots, which push up shoots or suckers at short spaces from the parent stock.
As digestion precedes the first, so generation follows the last of these functions, and not only continues the same species of action, but propagates it widely to new existences in the manner just described.
Root apparently annual; but the plant propagatesby suckers from the base of the stem.
A bud or body analogous to a bud by which a plant propagates itself.
It is not only by the rejection of particular doctrines that the Church of England propagates unbelief.
Land thus affected can no longer be employed for any purpose but growing rice, and when prepared for that crop, it propagates still further the evils under which it had itself suffered, and, of course, the mischief is a growing one.
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