"Egg-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... times longer than broad and with sides nearly parallel. OBTUSE. Blunt or rounded at the end. OIDES. A Greek ending, meaning like, or like to, as polypodioides—like to a polypody. OOeSPHERE. The egg-cell in fern reproduction—becoming the ooespore when fertilized. OVATE. Egg-shaped with the broader end downward. PALMATE. Having lobes radiating like the fingers of a hand. PANICLE. A loose compound cluster of flowers or sporangia with irregular stems. PEDICEL. A tiny stalk, especially the stalk ...
— The Fern Lover's Companion - A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada • George Henry Tilton
... half-magical character: the party giving delivery of it called down upon the head of any one who would dare in the future to dispute the validity of the deed, imprecations of which the text was inserted on a portion of the surface of an egg-shaped nodule of flint, basalt, or other hard stone. These little monuments display on their cone-shaped end a series of figures, sometimes arranged in two parallel divisions, sometimes scattered over the surface, which ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... or whimsical. 2. Inapplicability. 3. Having differed or dissented. 4. An egg-shaped chemical vessel. 5. A recital of circumstances. 6. ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... persons of a low order of mind, and you feel the depressing influence of their thought, breathe rhythmically a few times, thus generating an additional supply of prana, and then by means of the mental image method surround yourself with an egg-shaped thought aura, which will protect you from the gross thought ...
— The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath • Yogi Ramacharaka
... old, bald-headed lecturer and mesmerist, thumbing the egg-shaped head of a young man I remembered to have met that afternoon in some law office; "phrenology," repeated the Professor—"or rather the TERM phrenology—is derived from two Greek words signifying MIND and DISCOURSE; hence we find embodied in phrenology- proper, the science of intellectual ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley
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