The fairy-butter of the Welsh is a substance found at a great depth in cavities of limestone rocks.

This is also used at the edge of joint-cavities, forming a ring to deepen them.

These muscles consist of ribbon-shaped bands which surround hollow fleshy tubes or cavities.

Thus some of the muscles of the arm and thigh are long and tapering, while the abdominal muscles are thin and broad because they help form walls for cavities.

There are also little openings, one on each side, from which begin the Eustachian tubes, which lead upward to the ear cavities.

These two cavities are each divided by a horizontal partition into an upper and a lower chamber.

71.Right Cavities of the Heart.

From the aorta other arteries branch off to carry the blood to all parts of the body, only to be again brought back by the veins to the right side, through the cavities of the ventricles.

Cavities of the Heart.

As the skin is an outside covering, so is the mucous membrane a more delicate inside lining for all cavities into which the apertures open, as the alimentary canal and the lungs.

Many of the columns had unsuspected cavities, in which a long race of monarchs had reposited their treasures.

Sometimes a moon-beam came and lighted up the hideous skull and played in the gloomy cavities of its sightless eyes.

In the north island, or New Ulster, are various cavities, which appear to be extinct craters; and in their vicinity numerous hot springs are to be met with; some of them, as they rise to boiling point, the natives use for cooking.

Fissures or cavities sometimes occur in a large rock, allowing a solitary tree that has become rooted there to attain its full proportions.

There was a hollowness and volume in the sound which require explanation; and this, I think, is furnished by the remarks of Sir John Herschel on those hollow sounds at the Solfaterra, near Naples, from which travelers have inferred the existence of cavities within the mountain.

The crystals are opaque, but very smooth and glistening, lining cavities in this mass of limestone.

Its most movable partthe fluid mass of the atmospheredilates twice daily, swelling its cavities; and this atmospheric suction, the work of universal attraction, is reflected in the tidal waters.

This effect is produced by the winter's frost and summer's rain, which cut the land into cavities of from ten feet wide and ten feet deep (and upwards) in many places; and, added to this, here and there a hole, which makes it look altogether like marlpits, or stone-quarries, that have been carried away by those hasty showers in the summer, which no man who has not seen them in this climate could form any idea of or believe possible....

A young hen makes a particularly fine dish at table: the flesh of the breast is full of triangular cavities.

In a former paper I have explained in general terms the plan of structure of this type,a backbone, with a bony arch above and a bony arch below, forming two cavities that contain all the systems of organs, the whole being surrounded by the flesh and skin.

In the neighbourhood, too, are Pen-Pits, circular cavities in the ground (extending over 200 acres), which are believed to have been excavated for the purpose of obtaining grindstones.

When examined under a microscope the cells of the late wood are seen to be very thick-walled and with very small cavities, while those formed first in the season have thin walls and large cavities.

When examined under a microscope the cells of the late wood are seen to be very thick-walled and with very small cavities, while those formed first in the season have thin walls and large cavities.

The strength is in the walls, not the cavities.

It varies slightly from beech sapwood, 1.50, to Douglas fir heartwood, 1.57, averaging about 1.55 at 30° to 35° C., in terms of water at its greatest density 4° C. The reason any wood floats is that the air imprisoned in its cavities buoys it up.