caudation
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2CAUDATION + NOUN
hind-wing
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The property of having a caudate extension or tail.
In the meantime, while the daily newspapers of New York are talking over their "Aztec race" the Academy of Sciences at Paris has its grave announcement in a communication from M. de Castelnan, a duplicate of which we find in the Bulletic of the 'Socièté de Geographie respecting the NIAM-NIAMS, a people of Central Africa, to the southwest of the Lake Tchad, a people of whom there have been some scattered rumors before, suggesting to a modern Monboddo a " theory of caudation," in fact a people wearing indisputable natural tails.
There is a slight approach in several examples (of both sexes) to caudation of the hind-wing on first median nervule and submedian nervure, and in specimens from Delagoa Bay (two males, three females) this tendency is more pronounced.
A caudate extension or tail.
The fox, as in the old fable, has lost his tail, and must needs go about now most disinterestedly preaching that everybody else, who find their tails very useful, must submit to de-caudation, and because he has got the gout, must not use the bounties of God in moderation.
Thin; most leaves incurved-acuminate into a straight caudation; radicals various, large and long, broad and small, regular or lop-sided, their teeth big and remotish or very remote.
A fibrous growth.
In acute cases they are rapidly produced, make scarcely an attempt at development, and die off with rapidity; in schirrus they are formed more slowly, and in much smaller numbers, live longer, and make some attempt at caudation, but they are still farther removed in form from the typical cell of healthy tissues.
The caudation or fibrous tendency and the regularity of arrangement is greater than in cancer.
A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.
To make it a bit easier to follow, each added letter is underlined, and insertions/hydrations/ caudations are parenthesized.
As with the voice, this physicality is natural and flexible, a background of four-beat lines, grouped into four five-line stanzas (a central section flanked by anacrusis and caudation) with occasional moves to five- or six- beat lines, and occasional catalexis ("unrealized"/"silent" beats), always at stanzaic ends.
The addition of a caudation.
There is no adequate reporting system in use that can afford to treat words otherwise than as Hamlet's mother treated her heart, "cleave them in twain and fling away the basser half;" but in script the "baser half" in variably the final portion, and we get in the sentences of the curt style a jumble of inchoate nouns, paraplegic verbs and amputated adjectives, truncated of their tails and dependent each for its re-caudation on the accurate re-cordation (ahem !) of an equally deficient context.
But besides these examples there are two other ways of expanding the sonnet; by doubling and by caudation.
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3In the meantime, while the daily newspapers of New York are talking over their "Aztec race" the Academy of Sciences at Paris has its grave announcement in a communication from M. de Castelnan, a dupli
WiktionaryThere is a slight approach in several examples (of both sexes) to caudation of the hind-wing on first median nervule and submedian nervure, and in specimens from Delagoa Bay (two males, three females)
WiktionaryIts distinguishing features, such as alation, hingement, posterior caudation, etc., are also found in other subfamilies of Cytheridae.
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