It consists of sacs of a puffed-up appearance, more roundish than longish, varying in size, being at the utmost 1.
The sacsof Canadian castor are smaller than the Siberian, they being at the utmost 3.
With the use of steam, the vegetable substances swell up by the absorption of water, and thus afford a free passage to the oil, liberated from the sacs containing it.
In this animal the musk is found in two small sacs located between the anus and generative organs, and is emitted when the animal becomes excited.
These spurious sacs are prepared by drying a mixture of castor, resin, dragons' blood, etc.
Sacs thus treated are, however, readily recognized, they being, after drying, gnarled and uneven.
One of the sacs is generally somewhat smaller than the other.
The sacs are said to be small, the odor somewhat different from that of genuine musk, resembling that of civet, but suitable for perfuming purposes.
The extract from the empty musk sacs is used for cheaper products, or mixed with the extract from the contents of the sacs, according to whether a more or less fine quality of tincture is to be obtained.
The original packages, containing usually 24 sacs each, consist of longish, four-cornered boxes lined with lead-foil and covered outside with some silken stuff.
Good musk-sacs should yield from 50 to 60 per cent.
These sacs and tubes are held in place by a loose meshwork of tissue.
The air sacs at the top and in the bottom part of the lungs are seldom filled completely.
The walls of the air sacs are much thinner than tissue paper.
The lungs are formed largely of thousands of thin-walled sacs and two sets of tubes.
Upon these projections the rudiments of the pollen-sacs are then seen, usually four in number, two on each lobe.
Sometimes, however, only two cavities remain in the anther, by union of the sacs in each lobe, in which case the anther is said to be bilocular or dithecal.
It was supposed at one time that the air sacsof birds contributed in some mysterious way to flight, but this is now known to be erroneous.
These spurs, tubes and sacs serve as receptacles for the secretion or containing of nectar.
The eversible sacs on the abdominal segments are shown, some protruded and some retracted.
Palaeophonus) sinking below the surface during growth in connexion with the formation of the four pairs of pulmonary sacs (see fig.
The appearance of tracheae in place of lung-sacs cannot be regarded as a starting-point for a new line of descent comprising all the tracheate forms; tracheae seem to have developed independently in different lines of descent.
In specialized forms these pulmonary sacs are wholly or partly replaced by tracheal tubes.
The posterior pulmonary sacs (except in Hypochilus) replaced by tracheal tubes; the anterior and posterior pairs replaced by tracheal tubes in the Caponiidae.
The first of these usually carries a ventral tube, furnished with paired eversible sacs which assist the insects in walking on smooth surfaces, and perhaps serve also as organs for breathing.
Position of the two pulmonarysacs of the right side.
Possibly, though not probably, the somites carrying the two lung-sacs correspond to the first two lung-bearing somites of Scorpio, and it is the genital opening which has shifted.
In the plants of this family the spores are not supported upon basidia, but instead are enclosed in minute sacs or asci formed from the fertile cells of a hymenium.
These spore sacs are imbedded in the flesh of the exterior and upper surface of the mushroom cap.
Saccardo calls its asci (sacs which contain the spores) sporangia.
One of the apertures of the pulmonarysacs of arachnids.
The objection is that at times these tumors or sacs prolapse very freely during the act of expelling the injected water.
Of course, if there be no expulsion of feces and water the stretched or dilated sacs may keep their places in the rectum.
There are also several other distinguished warriors of this tribe, which is denominated the Sacs (Sauskies).
Reduced in wars with Sacs and Foxes, and lastly by the small-pox in 1823; now merged into the Pawnee tribe.
Begging Dance, Sacs and Foxes, danced for the purpose of getting presents from the spectators.
And again he feared that some of the scalp-locks on the dresses of the chief and the warrior were not quite dry, as they were fresh from the country where they had just been at war with the Sacs and Foxes.
An unaccountable and ludicrous custom amongst theSacs and Foxes, which admits not of an entire explanation.
The Chief Waneton speaking, and asking of the head Chief a war-party to go against the Sacs and Foxes.
Dance to the Medicine Bag of the Brave, Sacs and Foxes.
Discovery Dance, Sacs and Foxes--A Pantomime; pretending to discover game, or an enemy.
There are numerous smaller sacs besides the synovial, called bursæ mucosæ, which in structure are analogous to them, and secrete a similar fluid.
The seminal sacs and the prostate and Cowper's glands communicate with the deeper portions of the urethra by means of canals or ducts, lined with mucous membrane which is continuous with the urethral mucous membrane.
These sacs are composed of delicate, membranous tissue, having numerous nuclei on their walls.
These little sacs are supposed to be the seat of hearing, and to determine, in some mysterious way, the quality, intensity and pitch of sounds.
The Sacs and Foxes and the Winnebagoes were always on friendly terms with the whites and were sworn enemies of the Sioux.
The Fox was an Algonkian tribe, first found on the lakes, and who were driven south by the Ojibwa where, for self protection, they united with the Sacs and have been since known as Sacs and Foxes.
The government established a broad strip of neutral ground between the Sioux in the north and the Sacs and Foxes in the south to keep these tribes at peace, and in 1830 acquired lands on the Missouri to be used as Indian reservations.
Atkinson with food, thus these men were well acquainted with the Winnebagoes, who, in turn, were on terms of friendship with the Sacs and Foxes.
The Belle Oiseau was killed by the Sacs in the year 1804, in a boat of Manuel de Liza, when on his way down to St. Louis, in order to join the first deputation of his nation who were forwarded to the seat of government by Governor Lewis.
I am informed that a party of 40 Sacs were at Boon's Lick, above the Osage river, a few days since; but I by no means conceive they were on the route to intercept us, as the people pretend at this place.
The following sarcastic remark was made by the son of Bel Oiseau, a chief of the first standing among the Grand Osages while living, who unfortunately was killed by the Sacs on his way to Washington with the first deputation.
They were foolish--they seemed to think that the Sacs would run.
The Sacs of the upper Mississippi had sent to Canada for ammunition.
But the Indian agent was trying to persuade the Sacs to move across the Mississippi, into Iowa.
It all dated back to the year 1804, and the treaty signed by Pashepaho, by which the Sacs had lost their country.
The Three Fires and their allies the Sacs and the Wyandots longed for the pleasant company of their French brothers.
The Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi country had accepted presents from the British.
After this, the "Missouri band" of the Sacs kept by themselves, in disgrace.
All the Sacs and Foxes laughed at the idea of Keokuk, and his lowly clan, being placed above Black-hawk and the Thunder clan.
The Sacsand Foxes, and their allies, the Potawatomis and Winnebagos, planned to destroy it, and made attacks.
He was called a coward by the Black-hawk band; but the other Sacs and Foxes stayed where they were.
The British father told Nahpope that if the Sacs never had sold their land, of course they had a right to live upon it.
All the other Sacs and Foxes paid attention to the talk of Keokuk, the Watchful Fox, who was the Sac peace chief.
Tradition says that over a thousand Foxes and Sacs fell in this massacre; this is one of the many incidents in white men's relations with the Indians, wherein savages were outsavaged in the practice of ferocious treachery.
This led to later retaliation on the part of the French, but in the battle which was fought both sides lost heavily; and then both Sacs and Foxes fled from the country, never to return.
The Sacs would not have complained had the squatters settled in other portions of the tract, and not sought to steal the village which was their birthplace and contained the cemetery of their tribe.
The uneven pathway was strewn with the corpses of Sacs who had died of wounds and starvation; and there were frequent evidences that the fleeing wretches were sustaining life on the bark of trees and the flesh of their fagged-out ponies.
The united Sacs (or Saukies) and Foxes (Outagamies) were also prominent tribes.
The remainder took refuge with the Sacs, on Fox River; and the following year the French commander at Green Bay asked the Sacs to give them up.
This time the Sacs proved to be good friends, and refused; and in the quarrel which followed at the Sac town, eight French soldiers were killed.
The maiden was deprived of both father and mother when scarcely ten years old, by an attack of the Sacs and Foxes while they were on a hunting expedition.
One summer the Sioux and the Sacs and Foxes were brought together under a flag of truce by the Commissioners of the Great White Father, for the purpose of making a treaty with them.
Her young heart never forgot its early sorrow; yet she has never blamed the Sacs and Foxes or held them responsible for the deed.
The herald of the Sacs and Foxes entered the Sioux camp, attired in ceremonial garb and bearing in one hand an American flag and in the other a peace-pipe.
At such times they often met with stray parties of Sacs and Foxes from the prairies of Iowa and Illinois.
This circular tube therefore receives five radial tubes--one from each of the five rays--and is likewise in communication with a number of membraneous sacs (Fig.
The function both of these sacs and of those at the base of each tube-foot is the same, namely, that of acting as reservoirs of the fluid when this is expelled from the tube-feet.
The majority of fishes have no lungs and of course no vocal chords, but certain species, such as the drumfish, are able to distend special sacs with gas or air, or in other ways to produce sounds.
In addition to the lungs there are two small sacs near the tail which allow the animal to use the oxygen in the water as an aid to breathing.
In Chile a small species of frog, measuring only about an inch in length, has two internal vocal sacswhich are put to a unique use.
They had destroyed the tribes of the north-west, until even the distant Sacs and Foxes trembled at their name.
I have been away up the lakes for furs, living for months on end the life of a savage among the wigwams of the Sacs and the Foxes, foul livers and foul talkers, ever squatting like toads around their fires.
Great numbers of the Winnebagoes and of the Sacs and Foxes afterwards arrived, and Gorell addressed them in nearly the same words.
They were at war with many surrounding nations, and, among the rest, with the Sacs and Foxes, who often brought their prisoners to the French settlements for sale.
It is now seventeen years since the Ojibwas of Michillimackinac, combined with the Sacs and Foxes, came down to destroy you.
The Sacs and Foxes were nearly all cut off; and this proved the cause of their eventual expulsion from that country.
Their fructifications are characteristic, the sporangia being placed in groups of about five to a dozen, and fused together instead of ripening as separate sacs as in the other fern families.
The pollen grains seem to have been produced in sacs very like fern sporangia developed on normal foliage leaves, each grain entered the cavity pc in the seed (see fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
