It used to be a common thing to see duck skins with the breast feathers a solid mass of nasty yellow grease from the oil that had run out from the opening cut, but such specimens are becoming rare now.
If you stuff a skin with straw, excelsior, or tow, pack the filling in a solid mass, for with the lapse of time all such materials are bound to shrink, no matter how hard you make them at first.
This is often desirable to avoid making the figure too heavy, as would be the case were the entire bulk to be made a solid mass of excelsior.
All the particles of even a solid mass may be brought under conditions on which they are free to move.
At the gates of this city, in the hills which skirt the left or western bank of the river, there rises a solid mass of cretaceous formation known as Saint Peter’s Rocks.
At San Filippo, a solid massof limestone thirty feet thick has been formed in about twenty years.
If spirit of vitriol is added to strong oil of turpentine, they will condense into a solid mass, and a great quantity of heat will be sensibly emitted.
The water which supplies the baths falls into a pond, where it has been known to deposit a solid mass thirty feet thick in about twenty years.
The facility with which all the particles of a solid mass can be made to vibrate may be illustrated, says Gay Lussac, by many familiar examples.
Instead of toast breaking into bits during digestion, it remains in a solid mass and is digested with difficulty.
The formation of a solid mass in the mixture of fruit juice and alcohol which has stood for 5 minutes indicates that the fruit juice contains pectin,--a vegetable gelatine.
If evaporated, a solid mass is obtained which is soluble in water, and may be kept unchanged for any length of time.
A similar means is employed for cementing sawdust into a solid mass, called cylolite, used for flooring, &c.
On mixing ignited magnesia with a solution of magnesium chloride of specific gravity about 1·2, a solid mass is obtained which is scarcely decomposed by water at the ordinary temperature (see Chapter XVI.
It would seem however in most cases to arise as a solid mass of mesoblast cells at the hind end of the pallial cavity, which subsequently becomes hollowed out and divided into an auricle and ventricle.
After a regular segmentation the embryo forms a solid massof cells, the outermost of which soon become distinguished as a separate epiblastic layer.
Paradoxical as it may seem, it appears to me not impossible that the Coelenterata may have had an ancestor in which a digestive tract was physiologically replaced by a solid mass of amoeboid cells.
The blastopore disappears, and with it the segmentation cavity, while the hypoblast, forming a solid mass, becomes divided into two halves (Cf.
That building contained two corridors, and we had always supposed that the great interval between the arches of the parallel corridors was a solid mass of masonry.
It is cut off and enclosed on all sides by the inner wall, has no communication with any of the apartments, and is apparently a solid mass.
It must have been done as the walls were built, and the ceiling must have closed over a solid mass.
The result is a stony, solid mass, which contributes to the building up of coral reefs.
B), but more usually as a solid mass of ectoderm-cells (fig.
The interspaces between the tubes are filled up by a solid mass of lime, consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate, which replaces the chitinous perisarc of ordinary hydroids and forms a stony corallum or coenosteum (fig.
My beard was soon a solid mass of ice, from the moisture of my breath, and my nose required constant friction.
My nose occasionally required friction, and my beard and moustache became a solid mass of ice, frozen together so that I could scarcely open my mouth, and firmly fastened to my fur collar.
So we can picture to ourselves that the coal was not only squeezed into a solid mass, but often much of the oil and gas which were in the leaves of the plants was driven out by heat, and the whole baked, as it were, into one substance.
Any one who tries to kick it aside or pick it up finds that it is still attached to its car, which is buried under a solid mass of gravel and broken rock.
In two minutes after the current first burst through, forty feet deep, with a solid mass of water whirling around with a current of tremendous velocity, it was a whirlpool vastly greater than that of ten Niagaras.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solid mass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
