A white crescent in front of wing; speculum (wing-patch) green bordered by black tipped with white.
Feathers about base of bill white; breast and back rusty grayish brown; speculum white.
Feathers about sides of base of bill and throat white, back and breast rusty grayish brown; speculum gray.
Chin white; crown and throat reddish brown; rest of underparts and speculum white; above and tail ashy.
Chin and throat paler; rest of underparts and speculum white: back and tail ashy.
A whitish patch on either side of head; throat and upper parts grayish brown; belly and speculum white.
Above and below black and rusty, speculum purple bordered with white; tail feathers pointed.
Head and throat as in [Male], back fuscous and buffy; breast and sides ochraceous thickly spotted with blackish; speculumashy gray and white.
Speculum (patch in wing) purple bordered by black and white; under surface of wing pure white.
Head and throat brown; breast and back gray, a white throat-ring; belly and speculum white.
Throat and front of neck plain buff, usually unmarked; speculum sometimes tipped with white; belly rusty buff; broadly streaked with black.
Head and throat rusty, finely streaked and barred with black; breast and sides rusty; speculum blackish.
Henry mentions seeing a magnificent edition of "Speculum Moralitatis," which had been in that king's possession, and contained his autograph.
Speculum Metal, for telescope mirrors, is an alloy of copper, tin, and 3 per cent.
He describes some entertaining peep-show arrangements, possibly similar to Alberti's, and indicates how the dark chamber with a concave speculum can be used for observing eclipses.
It is worth while to compare Dee's speculum with the celebrated ink mirror described in Lane's work on the Modern Egyptians; it may, at least, illustrate the curious inquiry upon coincident superstitions.
The stupendous speculum weighs three tons; the casting and polishing of it were labours of wonderful skill.
For the views of Vincent of Beauvais, see his Speculum Naturale, lib.
Vincent of Beauvais, see theSpeculum Naturale, lib.
As to encyclopedic summaries, see Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Naturale, and the various editions of Reisch's Margarita Philosophica.
A still more comprehensive contemporary writer of this class was Vincent de Beauvais, in the Speculum naturale, morale, doctrinale et historiale, written before the middle of the thirteenth century.
In the third part of this encyclopædia, under the title Speculum doctrinale, all arts and sciences are explained; and the fourth contains an universal history.
In cases of fissure thespeculum ani is seldom required by those accustomed to making rectal examinations.
If a speculumshould be required, the instrument of Aloe (Fig.
The speculum has been formed into a telescope of fifty feet local length, and is established between two walls of castellated architecture, against one of which the tube bears when in the meridian.
The speculum has a diameter of six feet, and therefore an area of reflecting surface nearly four times greater than that of the Herschelian, and its weight approaches to four tons.
The tube was forty feet long, the speculum four feet in diameter, three inches and a half thick in every part, and weighing nearly two tons.
The Speculumis assigned to Cæsar, and the Enchanter, Vergil.
Amongst them were Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiæ, the first editions of Reynard the Foxe and the Golden Legende, the Curial, and the Speculum Vitæ Christi.
The Chronicles of England and the Speculum Christiani, printed by Machlinia.
We have already had written notice of this garment in the "blautann panzara" of the Speculum Regale.
In a preceding passage from the Speculum Regale, we have read of a breast-defence of iron, extending from the throat to the waist, which may have been the breastplate in question.
Seat the patient upon a stool in a bright light while an assistant holds the head; after the tongue has been firmly depressed by means of a speculum let the assistant hold this speculum in place.
Paul's description of the use of the speculum is as complete as that in any modern text-book of gynæcology.
Erasmus, ridiculing the absurdities of some of the theologians, mentions their practice of quoting the Speculum historiale and Gesta Romanorum.
For the benefit of those who may have an opportunity of consulting the original, a mistake in Mr. Warton's reference to the Speculum historiale is corrected, which should be lib.
Vincent de Beauvais, a writer of the 13th century, in his Speculum historiale, lib.
The type is the same as that used in the Speculum Christiani.
The flight is slow and with the wings very much depressed, as in a duck about to alight on the water; and the beautiful blue, green, and white speculum is thus rendered very conspicuous.
Female similar, but colour duller and wing-speculum not so bright.
Perhaps most vivid of all the early sources is the so-called Speculum perfectionis seu S.
These matters are set forth more picturesquely in the Speculum perfectionis; if authentic, they throw a vivid light on this wonderful person.
It is also rendered with picturesque vehemence in a scene (Speculum perfectionis, ed.
Of the Speculum perfectionis, edited by Sabatier, I would make this remark: many of its narratives contain such wisdom and human truth as seem to me to bring them very close to the acts and words of some great personality, i.
Speculum perfectionis is a compilation made in the 14th century, also in large measure a forgery, but containing an element (not to be precisely determined) derived from Br.
Sabatier's theory as to the nature of these documents was, in brief, that the Speculum perfectionis was the first of all the Lives of the saint, written in 1227 by Br.
Chill plate of cast iron turned to the curve of the speculum B.
Even glass, brittle though it be, is strong in comparison with speculum metal of the above proportions, though, as I have said, it yields the most brilliant composition.
Having made a wooden pattern for my intended 8-inch diameter speculum, and moulded it in sand, I cast this my first reflecting telescope speculum according to the best book instructions.
I then made a speculum of ten inches diameter, and but for the unhappy circumstance of his death in 1831, it would have been mounted in his proposed observatory at Norwood.
Thus all risk of contractile tension, which is so dangerously eminent and inherent in the case of sand-mould castings, made of so exceedingly brittle an alloy as that of speculum metal, is entirely avoided.
The windmill went on night and day, and polished the speculum while I slept.
I accordingly cast for him a speculum of 8 inches diameter.
I compounded the alloy, melted it, and cast a 10-inch speculum on my peculiar common-sense system.
This advantage, however, will disappear if the plane mirror of the old construction is accurately plane; and in your case, if the large speculum is parabolic and the small one elliptical in their curvature.
The resulting speculum was, by these simple arrangements, absolutely perfect in soundness.
The speculum was so brilliant that when my friend William Lassell saw it, he said "it made his mouth water.
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