Even as I did so, the thing ducked and vanished.

We ducked the staysail and foresail, lowered the peak of the mainsail, and waited to feel of ita rough and ready seamanship often used in these little California windjammers.

" Then Dave ducked, darted, dodged and wheeled about.

I ducked as I spoke, and as I ducked I made a dive with my hand for my hip pocket where I had put my revolver.

I ducked as I spoke, and as I ducked I made a dive with my hand for my hip pocket where I had put my revolver.

Its next salvo of shots went above us, and I ducked as they whirred overhead like a covey of fast partridges.

The steersman ducked, but clung bravely to his paddle.

Montgomery ducked under it, and in an instant the two were in each other's arms.

Montgomery ducked, but got a jab from the left upon the mark.

Victor ducked his head.

Tyee ducked and shivered, but Aab-Waak grinned and sought vainly to follow it with his eyes.

He ducked behind the palisade of boards.

He ducked sideways and walked downstairs.

The latter ducked and involuntarily raised his fist; then, ere Greer and some of the others stepped between, turned and walked away.

She ducked gracefully to slip into the lacy fabric which her mother held above her head.

I just ducked through a hole in the fence and ran out in the field.

Now and again, like a fly on water, there darted from one side to the other a tiny boat, in the blue and silver of the city guards, or dropped, ducked and vanished; now and again it wheeled, and came whirling up the line, vanishing at last in the long perspective.

Every time a battery fired simultaneously one of the men who were with me, a hard, tough type of mechanic, shrank and ducked his head with an expression of agonized horror.

"No one is going to die at our tea-party, dear," I said, and ducked.

Does any one here know how it happened?" Two men knew very wellthe man who had been ducked, and his companion, a younger man, who was also in the still-room, and had lent a hand in carrying Feltram up to the house.

The five boys, seeing the flash and being prepared for catastrophes, ducked below their desks, and were none of them seriously hurt.

He reached out to take Danny Meadow Mouse by the ear to turn him around, but somehow Danny must have guessed what Unc' Billy meant to do, for without a word he ducked out of sight under the long grass, and hunt as he would Unc' Billy couldn't find him.

Having observed the brick to be accurately pursuing its proper trajectory he had ducked back round the corner again and continued upon his way rejoicing.

DUCKING STOOL, a stool or chair in which a scolding woman was confined, and set before her own door to be pelted at, or borne in a tumbrel through the town to be jeered at, or placed at the end of a see-saw and ducked in a pool.

He was a perfect master of the business in hand, and so was the new boat a perfect mistress of her business, but this did not prevent us from getting thoroughly ducked.

In the act of opening, it was made to crush certain berries, and the oil they yielded, was carried by a small duct to the hinge, which was thus made to turn easily, and was prevented from creaking.

Now, although each of these fluids has its several channels, yet, if by any accident any one of them is obstructed, and there is so great an accumulation of the obstructed fluid that it cannot find vent by its natural channel, or duct, then you must carry off the redundancy by some other; for you well know, that that which can be carried off by one, can be carried off by all.

<Duce, duct> (lead): (1) induce, reduce, traduce, seduce, introduce, reproduce, education, deduct, product, production, reduction, conduct, conductor, abduct, subdue; (2) educe, adduce, superinduce, conducive, ducat, duct, ductile, induction, aqueduct, viaduct, conduit, duke, duchy.

<Duce, duct> (lead): (1) induce, reduce, traduce, seduce, introduce, reproduce, education, deduct, product, production, reduction, conduct, conductor, abduct, subdue; (2) educe, adduce, superinduce, conducive, ducat, duct, ductile, induction, aqueduct, viaduct, conduit, duke, duchy.

It was Berthold's idea to test whether a gland with a definite external secretion, and a duct through which that secretion was expelled, but which yet had powers over the body as a whole that were to be attributed only to an internal secretion, could not be shown, by a clean-cut experiment, to possess such an internal secretion.

For he found that, though, in thus separating the gland from its duct and so cutting off its external secretion, the action of the cells manufacturing that secretion was destroyed, the general effects upon the body were not those of castration.

It consists in slitting the genital duct, which leads from the germinal cells to the exterior.

Slitting the genital duct of the other testis, causing its interstitial cells to hypertrophy and multiply, repeats the effects of the first experiment.

We had water from a tank of modern construction; some remains were close to the camp, the ancient cistern and stone duct leading from the hills.

From this sac there passes a channel, the nasal duct, about one-half of an inch long, leading into the lower portion of the nostril.

The lacrymal canals are at times blocked by inflammation of the nasal duct, and the fluid collects in the corners of the eyelids and overflows down the cheeks, producing much inconvenience.

Look in a mirror, and the small lacrymal point, or opening into the nasal duct, may be observed.

Conduit N. conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito^, aboideau^, aboiteau

There issued out a Duct from each of these Cells, which ran into the Root of the Tongue, where both joined together, and passed forward in one common Duct to the Tip of it.

There issued out a Duct from each of these Cells, which ran into the Root of the Tongue, where both joined together, and passed forward in one common Duct to the Tip of it.

THE SUDORIFEROUS OR SWEAT GLANDS are composed of coiled tubes which lie in the deeper portion of the skin, and send up a corkscrew-like duct to open on the surface of the epidermis.

Conceivably, you may build a fiscal wall across the continent; conceivably, you may shut off the east and half the west by impossible tariffs, and narrow its trade to one artificial duct to England, but only at the price of a hampered development It will be like nourishing the growing body of a man with the heart and arteries of a mouse.

Taken together, these huge reconstructions of London are incoherent and conflicting; each is based on its own assumptions and separate "expert" advice, and the resulting new opening plays its part in the general circulation as duct or aspirator, often with the most surprising results.

And after reading it,with or without tears, according to your capacity for dogged resistance to a distended lachrymal duct,you will be conscious of bearing away a sweet and subduing impression, like that which a rare friend can sometimes give, which lingers many days.

Unrolling his rope, and fastening his rope to the parapet by threading it through a water-duct, he flung it over; then, with a prayer and a thought of Clelia, he began to descend.

They would go together: to continue their love duct in some charming place, where nobody knew them, where envy and vulgarity would not disturb.

Her trembling mouth, bluish with emotion, a round and protruding mouth like an absorbing duct, was seeking the sailor's mouth, taking possession of it and devouring it with her lips.

She had no need to ask what their sensations were, sliding down that slimy duct, or how they entered it without being seen by the enemy.

[Illustration: The Alimentary Canal, a. Esophagus; b. Stomach; c. Cardiac Orifice; d. Pylorus; e. Small Intestine; f. Bile Duct; g. Pancreatic Duct; h. Ascending Colon; i. Transverse Colon; j. Descending Colon; k. Rectum.]

[Illustration: The Alimentary Canal, a. Esophagus; b. Stomach; c. Cardiac Orifice; d. Pylorus; e. Small Intestine; f. Bile Duct; g. Pancreatic Duct; h. Ascending Colon; i. Transverse Colon; j. Descending Colon; k. Rectum.]