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Lexicographically close words:
orientation; oriented; orientem; orienting; ories; orifices; oriflamme; origanum; origin; original
  1. A good reduction flame can be obtained by the use of a small orifice at the point of the blowpipe.

  2. Blow strong enough to keep the flame straight and horizontal, using the largest orifice for the purpose.

  3. The flame should be a small one, with a lamp having a small wick, while the orifice of the blowpipe must be quite small.

  4. But frequently the fault lies in the orifice of the jet, or too small a hole, or its partial stoppage by dirt, which will prevent a steady jet of air, and lead to difficulty.

  5. By blowing air into the bottle through the tube, and then turning it downwards, the compressed air will expel a fine stream of water through the fine orifice with considerable force.

  6. If the shell containing the animal be placed so that its orifice is directed upwards, the point or apex of the spire being towards the reader, the lid (oper´culum) which closes the shell will be at once evident.

  7. Each point is the orifice of an open capsule (peridium), which has burst through the epidermis of the leaf (Pl.

  8. The two cells which guard the orifice are termed the “guard cells.

  9. It is contained in a hemispherical shell or carapace, from the round orifice of which the lobed processes are protruded.

  10. If the folds on the upper wall of the orifice run toward the right, the womb is twisted to the right; if, on the contrary, they turn toward the left, it indicates that the womb is turned over in that direction.

  11. For large masses this is inapplicable, and with too much loss of skin the orifice may fail to close and the bowels may escape.

  12. The affection is usually marked by the presence of redness and swelling at the posterior part of the navel and the escape of urine and a few drops of whitish, serous pus from the orifice of the urachus.

  13. A swollen condition of the mucous membrane of that part of the bowel called the duodenum may produce jaundice, as that mechanically closes the orifice of the biliary duct.

  14. Behind this orifice is a distinct pouch, in which this unctuous matter is liable to accumulate when the penis is habitually drawn back.

  15. In this case the obstruction may be near the orifice of the teat or farther up, and the solid mass is not movable up and down with the same freedom as are concretions and calculi.

  16. For small hernias nitric acid may be used to destroy the skin and cause such swelling as to close the orifice before the skin is separated.

  17. Should even this fail of success, the sheath may be slit open from its orifice back in the median line below until the offending matter can be reached and removed.

  18. In the first form it is necessary only to dissect away the skin leading into the opening for some distance down, to close the orifice with stitches, and to cover the whole with collodion.

  19. Saliva may issue from the orifice and result in the formation of a salivary fistula.

  20. It can be distinguished from descent of the womb by the absence of the orifice of that cavity, which can be felt by the oiled hand beyond the tumor in the depth of the vagina.

  21. There was no trace of the existence of a gall-bladder; but on laying open the duodenum, the orifice of the bile-duct was at once seen in its ordinary situation, and a drop of pale bile was expressed from it.

  22. A small square, of about two feet each way, was cut in the wall, affording an orifice through which, probably, the closet in which he stood was imperfectly lighted in the daytime.

  23. This wire rope runs on rollers under ground between the rails, and there is an orifice from end to end in the roadway above the said rope.

  24. Through this said orifice or narrow slit, a pair of pinchers, connected with the car, descends and nips the rope, which runs continually.

  25. The enormous speed at which steam under heavy pressure rushes out of an orifice was not duly appreciated by the first experimenters in this direction.

  26. An orifice barely large enough to admit a man showed them beneath the tree a cave.

  27. The aorta, its orifice being circular, appears bigger than the slit-like mitral orifice.

  28. This being inserted in the orifice at the last segment of the caterpillar, is kept in place by being tied round with a piece of darning cotton, or, better still, by a contrivance shown in Fig.

  29. After you have introduced the cotton, sew up the orifice you originally made in the belly, beginning at the vent.

  30. First take hold of the bone of the nose and push the skull into the skin, so that it comes through the orifice of the skin of the body.

  31. The proximal smaller pancreatic duct here joins the biliary duct, and opens with it by a single orifice into the duodenum.

  32. In man and mammals generally the anal orifice is separated from the genito-urinary opening, lying dorsad of the same and provided with special sphincters.

  33. The union of the pancreatic and biliary ducts to form the recess of the diverticulum Vateri, which then opens by a single common orifice into the duodenum, is better marked in some of the lower vertebrates than in man.

  34. The duct of Santorini in this case opened by a separate orifice into the duodenum above the common opening of the biliary and pancreatic ducts (cf.

  35. When the atmospheric pressure falls, the water at the orifice bulges outwards; when it rises, the water retreats till its surface is slightly concave.

  36. In principle the safety-valve denotes an orifice closed by an accurately-fitting plug, which is pressed against its seat on the boiler top by a weighted lever, or by a spring.

  37. The elastic metal tongue when at rest stands a very short distance away from the orifice in the reed.

  38. It will be noticed that the cone A and the part of B above the orifice O contract downward.

  39. He saw startled-looking eyes, round as quarters, with red irises that dilated greatly with each tilt of his head toward the shadowy rear of the cage, and narrowed the orifice about the pupil to a pinprick when he turned near the front.

  40. At any moment a predator might come down into that orifice in the soil, and Jerry would have to fight for his host's life to preserve his own.

  41. The new waves radiate from the orifice like a fan, instead of giving a cone of waves bounded by lines passing through the circumference of the orifice and the original centre of radiation.

  42. Thus on passing through a small orifice diffusion waves exhibit the phenomenon of diffraction just as light waves do.

  43. You go up from a mere orifice on the first floor to a one-arched window on the second, a two-arched on the third, to a three or even four-arched one near the summit.

  44. In the fifteenth century the central windows were altered and a large ugly round orifice was placed above the three Lombard ones.

  45. Next she raises the walls of a cell, which is about an inch in length and half an inch broad, and before its orifice is closed in form resembles a thimble.

  46. Having filled the burrow to a level with the surrounding earth so as to conceal the entrance, it took two fir-leaves lying at hand, and placed them near the orifice as if to mark the place.

  47. It is sentinelled by the Comet Geyser, exploding several times daily, but through an orifice so large that it does not throw a very high column.

  48. The tube is an orifice of eight feet by two feet wide in the centre of this cone, with water-worn and rounded rocks enclosing it.

  49. Along the river bank nearby are the Wash Tubs, small basins ten feet in diameter, each with an orifice in the bottom.

  50. The external nostrils terminated in a single orifice of a semilunar shape, with the concavity turned towards the snout.

  51. They open by a smooth and oval or slit-like, orifice into the afferent pulmonary vessels, on each of which, as Professor Owen has observed, they are disposed in three clusters.

  52. A cone of about 300 feet in height, and about a mile in circumference, was accumulated round the orifice whence the jet ascended.

  53. Much of the so-called flame, however, in popular descriptions of eruptions is an error of observation due to the red-hot solid particles and the reflection of the glowing orifice on the over-hanging clouds.

  54. Under this orifice is the stomach, occupying the centre of the cylinder.

  55. The orifice of the great channels which traverse it are edged with rough and bristly hairs.

  56. The corpuscles of nutritive substances directed towards the buccal orifice by the vibratile cils soon disappear in the interior of the animal.

  57. It is a sort of irregular sac, with a central mouth on the upper surface, and another orifice situated at a little distance from the mouth, and evidently intended as an outlet for the products of digestion.

  58. The nutritive system is very simple, presenting in most of the family a single orifice in the centre of the lower surface of the body, destitute of teeth, performing the functions both of mouth and anus.

  59. Aided by the microscope, we discover that this white point is starred with radiating white lines, the edge of the orifice bearing eight distinctly-traced indentations.

  60. When the sea retires, the presence of the Solen is indicated by a small orifice in the sand, whence escape at intervals bubbles of air.

  61. The buccal orifice is at the outer extremity of the radius; but the intestinal terminations abut on the common cavity, which occupies the centre of the wheel.

  62. The spores are produced on slender threads springing from the inner wall of the perithecium, and, when mature, are expelled from an orifice at the apex.

  63. After the Count had fucked me twice I turned my back as if wishing it in a way we often enjoyed it, but took care to place my bottom in such a position that the smaller orifice was nearest to his standing prick.

  64. No, no, my darling aunt, nothing of the sort; stoop down forward on to your knees, and I will lick the delicious orifice clean with my tongue.

  65. The doctor rose first, and without drawing his prick from the delicious orifice in which it had been engulphed, showed by the way it hung down its pendant head, that aunt had at all events allayed its stiffness.

  66. Half-an-inch beyond was the rosy orifice of her bottom.

  67. At first we used to fuck with one laid on her back to be fucked, while the other backed on her knees over the face of the one being fucked, and was gamahuched by her, while I introduced my finger into the rosy orifice of the bottom before me.

  68. Feeling the warm liquid oozing from the pouting orifice on his closely pressed lips, he could not help tasting it with his tongue.

  69. Well, then dear, it is this sweet little orifice in your bottom that I am going to introduce my prick into.

  70. To her great surprise she beheld the so lately rampant weapon drooping its head and withdrawing within its shell, while some few drops of a milky white creamy like liquid were slowly oozing from the small orifice off its head.

  71. She then thrusts her bill through the orifice and receives the food.

  72. The cavity in question was so situated that I could see its orifice as I sat at my dressing table.


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