Sentence Examples

  • The disks fall down the tube G to a receptacle on the floor.
  • In the male flower the receptacle is "concrescent" or inseparate from the bract in whose axil it originates.
  • The molten sulphur accumulates on the sole, whence it is from time to time run out into a square stone receptacle, from which it is ladled into damp poplar-wood moulds and so brought into the shape of truncated cones weighing 110 to 130 lb each.
  • The mass of glass, yielding, to its own weight and the pressure of air or steam, sinks downwards and adapts itself to any mould or receptacle beneath it.
  • C, invaginated head of Cysticercus cellulosae, showing the bent neck and receptacle r; X 30.
 
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