The ornamental band at the top is of white sealskin "run" on with strong dark thread, and the checkered pattern is made by drawing a strip of black skin throughslits in the white.
Sidaru, is feathered with three raven feathers, of which the small ends are wedged into slits in the wood.
It is passed through the line hole, doubled in the middle, the two parts are firmly stopped together with sinew in four places, and in the ends are cut long slits for looping on the floats.
The cross strands are a piece of stout thong (the skin of the walrus or bearded seal), to the end of which is spliced with double slits a long piece of thinner seal thong, which makes the longitudinal ones.
The end is spliced to the standing part with double slits about 6 inches from the loose shaft, and the other end makes a couple of turns outside of the lashing on the shaft mentioned above and is secured with two half-hitches.
The spray fell warmly on his face now, and unafraid, he relaxed his gill slits as water fell across him and they climbed onto the boat.
Tloto backed away, turned to the boy, and came forward, its nostril slits widening and contracting.
Transverse slits were common in the folds of the neck, the flexures of the joints (fig.
Vertical slits are less common; they occurred with the greatest frequency in the posterior axillary folds.
Thus I saw well-marked transverse and vertical slits in the forehead corresponding with the creases normally found there, and in this situation I noted some slit entries.
In the Jeffreys modification the mantle is sawn down for about half the length of the whole mantle, the slits neither reaching tip nor base.
No perforation was discovered in either stomach or intestine, but on two coils of jejunum there were deep slits 3/4 inch long, extending through both peritoneal and muscular coats.
Thomson, in which at the end of the third day small symmetrical vertical slits in each ala already healed were scarcely visible.
Beyond these more or less pure perforations, long slits or gutters were occasionally cut.
A tendency on the part of the longitudinal slits to become caught in the rifling of the barrel militates against the use of this bullet.
But Cosgrave laughed, his eyes narrowed to blue-grey slits as though he did not want Stonehouse to see all that was in them.
They had narrowed to two twinkling slits of gay secretiveness.
The egg-sacs lie between the arms and open by slits on the under side, close to the arms, where they join the disk.
Sometimes they are cut at intervals on the margin; again they have slits through the body (/lunules/).
These sacs open by slits on each side next the arms, and have a rounded appearance, bulging out between the arms.
The Eskimo lifted his weighted boat with sheer-legs made of two paddles; he also had a tackle without sheaves, formed by reaving a greased thong through slits cut in the hide of a walrus.
Good-nature was not wanting in the round countenance, with its two slits of covetous eyes; but there was likewise the vague uneasiness habitual to those who have money to spend and hear constant applications for it.
Another kind had a higher crown, with two slits in front as an ocularium, and could be pulled over the brows till this came level with the eyes (Fig.
It is beaked, thrown into few or several ridges, with the slits or holes for breathing principally on the right side.
It may be described as a single coat of mail with no slits and no reinforcement.
At the end opposite the pocket is the first ledge, and into the slits in this ledge the hooks are placed.
They then slide along a groove to the main body of the machine, where they fall into slits properly distanced, and are pressed into the paper in rows, twelve in all, containing five hundred and sixteen pins.
Yet as the twenty-four slits passed the eye, the twenty-four different positions blended into one continuous jumping movement of the poodle.
When the disk is revolved around its center, these slits pass the eye of the observer.
In that case slits must pass by in the opposite direction so that each picture is seen for a moment only, as if it were at rest.
Yet they are evidently sufficient to bridge the interval between the two slits in the stroboscopic disk or in the zoötrope, the interval in which the black paper passes the eye and in which accordingly no new stimulus reaches the nerves.
Both secured the effect by cutting fine slits in a black disk in the direction of the radius.
In more complex instruments three sets of slitswere arranged above one another.
In the third set the slits were further distant from one another than the pictures, and the result was that the picture moved backward.
The child who made his zoötrope revolve and looked through the slits of the black cover in the drum saw through every slit the drawing of a dog in one particular position.
The second brought the slits nearer together; then the pictures necessarily produced an effect as if the man were really moving forward while he performed his tricks.
By simply inserting very small shreds of cascarilla bark between the leaves of the cigar or in small slits made for the purpose.
The blacks shrank back before him, their eyes slits of fire.
Conan fought in silence, his eyes slits of blue bale-fire.
Lucky for them," Luka laughed, "I made the slits so big.
They were the shape of goggles, and made of skin with the hair on, narrow slits being cut in them, these slits being partly covered with the hair, and so shielding the eyes from the glare of the snow.
The water won't begin to come in through the slits till they put their weight in the canoes.
The women will sew the slits together, and the men melt fat and smear over.
Each part would be carefully rubbed with salt before it was packed away, and slits were cut from the surface of the hams to the bone, so that one might force salt in them, thus keeping the meat from turning sour.
This intermediate position is intelligible, for any light from the sky which entered obliquely through the slits would be much more efficient than the diffused light which entered directly through them.
But in some instances they were fastened down by narrow strips of card, and in others by their petioles being passed through slits in the cork.
The breadth of these stripes or slits varied between .
At the commencement of the experiment, pins had been laid on the earth in the direction towards which the slits in the varnish faced; and in this direction alone a small amount of diffused light entered.
Above these the lotos-flowers spread from the stems, showing between their green leaves the opening buds in narrow slits of white.
Within they are pierced by stairways and small chambers, scantily lighted by narrow slits in the wall.
The slits of the triglyph terminated at first in elliptical lines, which became, in the decline of the style, straight and horizontal.
You can either gum the specimens in a scrap-book, or fix them in, as drawings are often fastened, by making four slits in the page, and inserting each corner.
It is passed through slits cut in the end of each trace and then looped on the toggle.
The thongs are plaited by inserting the end of each thong through a succession of slits cut at the proper distance and so matted together that it is difficult to determine the "run" of the thong.
Is not this a more reasonable view than to suppose that the gill slits of the embryos of the higher forms represent the adult gill slits of the fish that in some mysterious way have been pushed back into the embryo of the bird?
When we look further into the matter we find that young fish also possess gill slits (fig.
The embryos of the mammal, bird, and lizard have gill slits today because gill slits were present in the embryos of their ancestors.
No one familiar with the relations of the parts will for a moment doubt that the gill slits of these embryos and of the fish represent the same structures.
The gill bars separating the gill slits from one another are strengthened by chitinous rods in a way closely similar to that in Amphioxus.
The nares have the form of long slits and there are large pre-orbital vacuities.
The anterior palatine foramina form long, rather narrowslits in this region.
St. Mary never says a word but grins until his eyes are nothing but little slits and ducks his head until only the curls on top are visible.
After the leaf had recovered from the operation, though the slits were still open, the filaments thus circumstanced were roughly touched, and both lobes, or one alone, slowly closed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
