Small or medium-sized butterflies, very closely approximating in form and color the species of the genus Argynnis, in which they are included by many writers.
The Canadian Skipper is found across the entire continent north of a line roughly approximating the boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada.
Her daily business is to work in the cane-field, and for some time past I had been used to see her bringing grass for the use of our horses in a state approximating to nudity.
By approximating his arms he made the ends of his clavicles overlap.
The backs of the hands, the dorsums of the feet, the wrists and ankles, had closely approximating growths upon them, while under the thick epidermis of the palms of the hands were blisters.
For all practical purposes, whether sheets are prepared in pans or in tanks, it has been found that the optimum results are obtained by the adoption of a standard approximating and not exceeding 1-1/2 lbs.
After a period of three and a half years' continuous tapping neither the alternate-day system nor the third-day system gave results in any way approximating to the yield of the daily system.
All of which is false, and arrived at by approximating a person to a State, and disregarding the numberless facts which render a person different from a State.
Another skull nearly approximating to it is that of a Cole, one of the savage tribes of Nagpore, in Central India, who are said to go entirely naked.
The finest flint implements of Canada are those of the north shore of Lake Huron, made from material corresponding to a very fine-grained quartzite, approximating to chalcedony, found among the Huronian rocks of that region.
Nevertheless the assumption of an antiquity in any degree approximating to that of Egypt seems wholly irreconcilable with the evidence.
The color would generally be a very dark shade, approximating blue-green in hue.
Of recent years a large demand has sprung up for sterilized milk in bottles, and a considerable trade is also done in humanized milk, which is a milk preparation approximating in its chemical composition to human milk.
In this chart, which is about eighteen inches in diameter, the circles at the ends of the six diameters are colored papers selected from the Bradley coated papers, as approximating the true complementaries.
The cotton planting States, toward the close of the contest, found themselves rapidly accumulating strength, and approximating the accomplishment of the grand object at which they aimed--the monopoly of the cotton markets of the world.
If it failed there, much more would it fail here, where the two races, approximating to equality in numbers, are daily and hourly in the closest contact.
Prices are approximating the maximum point, beyond which our provisions can not be fed to slaves, unless there is a corresponding increase in the price of cotton.
The chrysalids are rather large and angular and generally take on colors approximating their surroundings.
These are fairly large insects, approximating the size of the Viceroy, which show most beautiful colors in the tropical sunshine.
Where the term was practically hereditary, conditions were much better, approximating those of the small proprietor.
While the German troops were still in Belgium and the Battle of Charleroi unfought, Russian troops crossed the East Prussian boundary and began an invasion which produced something approximating a panic.
The brogue was that of Munster,--the war of words waged quicker and faster; and from invective the heroines seemed rapidly approximatingto actual battle.
The Greater Doxology, in a form approximatingto that of the English prayer-book, is given in the Apostolical Constitutions (vii.
Intricate with approximating elevations and depressions whose direction is indeterminate.
Certainly there is no other approximating the tamarau in size which is so tough.
The first thing to be done is clearly to trace the outline of subject with an incision approximatingin section to that of the furrow of a plough, only more equal-sided.
The cases must be very rare, where the soft parts cannot be otherwise brought together: when they can be united, their equable and continued pressure will have the effect of gradually approximating the hard parts.
After tying the vessels, and approximating the edges of the wound, the limb is placed in the straight position, and retained fixedly so by the application of splints.
Even where the integuments only are removed, and that to a small extent, and in a proper form, it is vain to think of approximating the parts and procuring union by adhesion; the wound must granulate.
In rupture of the tendo-Achillis, the knee should be bent and the foot extended, relaxing the muscle and approximating the separated ends.
Mention may also be made of the drag-harrow, a heavy implement with long tines, approximating closely to the cultivator, and of the Norwegian harrow with its revolving rows of spikes.
The harp is an instrument of beautiful proportions, approximating to a triangular form, the strings diminishing in length as they ascend in pitch.
Implements of this character, but often |199| approximating in shape to Fig.
Implements, which can without hesitation be classed as chisels, are rare in Ireland, though long narrow celts approximating to the chisel form are not uncommon.
I now come to several forms of implements which, though approximating closely to those to which the name of celts has been applied, may perhaps be regarded with some degree of certainty as forming a separate class of tools.
