Here we have a splendid view of the short truncated glacier which, fed from a sharply defined trough-shaped firn basin, lies on the north side of Kailas.
One had a tall white hat like a truncated cone, with a flat brim, a head-covering I remembered seeing in Nakchu.
Two long numerical formulae might both simplify out to 500, but half the length of one truncated and put end on to the truncated end of the other, might give a very different result.
The telson has the form of a triangle with the angles truncated and is about as long as it is broad at the base.
The telson is truncated at the end so that it is by no means as long as it is broad at the base, and the outer divisions of the tail appendages are in similar proportion.
Previous to the year 79, Vesuvius appears, from the description of its figure given by Strabo, to have been a truncated cone, having a level and even outline as seen from a distance.
The ancient cone was of a very regular form, terminating not as at present in two peaks, but with a summit which presented, when seen from a distance, the even outline of an abruptly truncated cone.
The vault, which was blue and open overhead, was in the shape of a truncated cone.
The brilliant is essentially a low, double cone, its top truncated to form a large flat eight-sided face called the table, and its basal apex also truncated by a very small face known as the culette or cullet.
Huge square towers and truncated cones and needles and spires break the horizon-lines.
There are huge, truncated towers, vast, horizontal mouldings; there is the semblance of balustrades on the summit of a noble facade.
It has the usual eight funnels, containing four ovoids in a circle, and a truncated "cigar" but no central body of any kind.
These crystals consist of two intersecting six-sided prisms, truncated at both ends, forming the cross.
It rises from a truncated pyramid and forms a quadrilateral with three openings in each face, separated by massive pilasters, some ornamented with hieroglyphics and some ornamented with human figures.
The palace, the most important building of Palenque, rests on a truncated pyramid about forty feet high, the base of which measures from three hundred and ten feet by two hundred and sixty.
This method being found relatively inconvenient and ineffectual, was succeeded by a permanent kiln built of stones or brickwork, in the shape of a truncated cone with the narrow end undermost, and closed at bottom by an iron grate.
The lantern is a cylinder or a truncated hollow cone of cast iron, about half an inch thick; and differently shaped for every different core.
The outer form of the kiln also is determined by the number of the furnaces; being a truncated pyramid of equal sides; and in the middle of each alternate side there is a fire-place, and a discharge outlet.
It is composed of a squat truncated cone of tempered steel, which enters into an eye of the moveable piece P, D.
The scouring or cleaning of peltry is performed in a large cask, or truncated cone laid on its side, and traversed by a revolving shaft, which is furnished with a few rectangular rounded pegs.
The hollow is conical, truncated downwards, and then becomes cylindrical, with a hemispherical projection in its bottom, to allow the juice to run freely to the small opening that conveys it to a spout, from which it falls into an earthen pot.
The pot is an invertedtruncated cone, like a crown glass pot.
When the wind or rain obstruct the operation, this inconvenience is remedied by planks distributed round the upper surface of the truncated pyramid over the sulphur basins.
The holes of the grate are truncated cones, having the greater base below, that the ashes may more easily fall into the ash-pit.
This when dead centred is elongated, pressed down again, and re-formed into a truncated cone.
After this must be practised the pulling up, the pressing down, and the forming of truncated cones, then hollowing the ball and pulling up into a cylinder.
Newport (1839) found that if the thoracic leg of a late-stage caterpillar were cut off, the corresponding leg of the resulting butterfly would still be developed, although in a truncated condition.
Hence we understand that the amputation of the latter by the old naturalists truncated only and did not destroy the imaginal limb.
The principal structure is a truncated pyramid, situated on the most elevated of three successive terraces.
This mountain (which has derived its name from its appearance at a distance, resembling a prahu, or boat, turned upside down) forms a vasttruncated cone.
Others, composed of hundreds of tons of earth, shaped like a tortoise, with truncated mounds all around it.
Others, in a series of successive squares, about three feet apart, having an opening to the east and west, and terminating in a square of about fourteen feet in the centre, where a truncated mound is sure to be erected.
Above was a low cylinder surmounted by a truncated cone, on which stood a terminal member in the shape of a pine cone, found near by.
It was in the form of a truncated cross, a cross without a foot, rounded at the summit, holding out two square arms, with a door at either end.
These divisions of the body have in their ensemble the appearance of a regular cylinder, of a truncated cone, or of a disk.
They are taken in baskets in the form of a truncated cone, the mouth of which is so arranged that the animal can enter, but cannot get out.
It is a thin, transparent, long, and slender equivalved bivalve, with parallel edges, gaping and truncated at both extremities.
Faujasina, in which the spiral convolutions are visible on the truncated half of the shell.
The form of the machine was that of a globe, rising from a reversed and truncated cone, to which the gallery was attached.
The new balloon was of a very singular shape: the upper part represented a prism, twenty-four feet high the top was a pyramid of the same height; the lower part was a truncated cone, twenty feet in depth.
I select that to which the crepitant Eutrechina belong, containing those which from their usually truncated elytra MM.
Their snout looks as if it had been suddenly chopped off, as if to expose the nostrils, which are pierced in this truncated portion.
Presently she halted and leaned upon the parapet to watch the half-consumed cigar, swinging and bumping like a truncated canoe in the foam-fringes of the rising tide.
Seeing them she bethought herself of the truncated brown canoe tossing in the foam-fringe of the tide on the Old Point beach.
