Illustration of the marbling tray and tools taken from the book School of Arts ( 1750 ) as reproduced in The Art of Bookbinding by Joseph Zaehnsdorf ( 1890 ).

Furthermore, the persistent nature of dioxins, erosion caused by loss of protective tree cover, and loss of seeding forest stock, meant reforestation was difficult or impossible in many areas.

Such dry conditions favored gymnosperms, plants with seeds enclosed in a protective cover, over plants such as ferns that disperse spores.

* Scabbard: The scabbard, also known as the Sheath, is a protective cover often provided for the sword blade.

The specific neurological diseases which may occur are West Nile encephalitis, which causes inflammation of the brain, West Nile meningitis, which causes inflammation of the meninges which are the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord, West Nile meningoencephalitis, which causes inflammation of the brain and also the meninges surrounding it, and West Nile poliomyelitis-spinal cord inflammation which results in a syndrome similar to polio, which may cause acute flaccid paralysis.

Also, because it resists corrosion, it does not need a protective concrete cover as thick as steel reinforcement does ( typically 30 to 50 mm or more ).

For purposes of fireproofing an adequate thickness of cement concrete cover or protective cladding is necessary.

He is proud and protective of the multitudinous black spots that cover his face ; any attempts to remove them are chased off.

This example shows that personal protective equipment can cover literally any occupation in the United States, and has a wide-ranging definiton.

A kerchief ( from the French couvre-chef, " cover the head "; also Bandana ) is a triangular or square piece of cloth tied around the head or around the neck for protective or decorative purposes.

Much of this coast is thinly populated but overgrazing, particularly south of Mogadishu, has resulted in the destruction of the protective vegetation cover and the gradual movement of the once-stationary dunes inland.

Subscribers would receive a bonus in the form of an extra cutout or cartoon on the protective mailing cover.

In agriculture and gardening, mulch is a protective cover placed over the soil.

Snelson and Fuller worked developing what they termed " tensegrity ," an engineering principle of continuous tension and discontinuous compression that allowed domes to deploy a lightweight lattice of interlocking icosahedrons that could be skinned with a protective cover.

Similar in performance to the desktop computers of the era, they were easily transported and came with an attached keyboard that doubled as a protective cover when not in use.

The Egyptians considered the vulture to be an excellent mother, and the wide wingspan was seen as all-encompassing and providing a protective cover to her infants.

* Convertibles such as first Porsche Boxster, Toyota MR2 and third generation Mazda MX5 ( NC ) featured Z-fold ( aka zig-zag fold ) tops, whereby the exterior of the neatly retracted fabric roof also protected the remaining roof from sun exposure – eliminating the aesthetic or protective need for a tonneau cover.

ECE 22. 05 allows certification of modular helmets with or without chin bar tests, distinguished by-P ( protective lower face cover ) and-NP ( non-protective ) suffixes to the certification number, and additional warning text for non-certified chin bars.

The rows of scutes cover the crocodilian's body from head to tail, forming a tough protective armor.

Introduced grazing animals can also affect soil condition through physical compaction and break-up of the soil caused by the hooves of animals and through the erosion effects caused by the removal of protective plant cover.

After the cessation of hostilities, Halsey, still aggressively cautious of Japanese kamikaze attacks, ordered Third Fleet to maintain a protective air cover with the following communiqué:

In the protective put strategy, the investor buys enough puts to cover their holdings of the underlying so that if a drastic downward movement of the underlying's price occurs, they have the option to sell the holdings at the strike price.

The album cover features an image of a man in a white protective suit shoveling some substance on the ground.

* A protective cover for a cork on a bottle.

It prefers to nest over water on permanent prairie marshes surrounded by emergent vegetation, such as cattails and bulrushes, which provide protective cover.

Simone Weil who fought for the French resistance ( the Maquis ) argued in her final book The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind that for society to become more just and protective of liberty, obligations should take precedence over rights in moral and political philosophy and a spiritual awakening should occur in the conscience of most citizens, so that social obligations are viewed as fundamentally having a transcendent origin and a beneficent impact on human character when fulfilled.

Mirroring the hoodoo concept of the Bible-as-talisman, the book itself proposes to be a protective amulet:

She played a deceived, then violently protective mother of a six-year old daughter, and wife of stalked philanderer Dan Gallagher ( Michael Douglas ), whose weekend tryst with mentally unstable book editor Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) results in more than he bargained for.

A hardcover, hardback or hardbound is a book bound with rigid protective covers ( typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather ).

Her role in the movies are similar to the book, playing a somewhat pessmistic and at times over protective character.

Some thought he was unhinged, but in his book Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade he stated that it was merely a protective mechanism designed to make people leave him alone.

* Dust jacket, protective cover for a book

According to the same book mentioning this, Miguel Covarrubias's " Island Of The Gods ", 1937, when a Balinese baby was born, he was given a protective amulet necklace with black coral and " a tiger's tooth or a piece of tiger bone ".

During the last third of his life, he worked together with his son, Gerald Handerson Thayer, on a major book about protective coloration in nature, titled Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern ; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer ’ s Disclosures.

A pencil is a writing implement or art medium usually constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a protective casing.

Interlace may well have still been believed to have some quasi-magical protective power, which seems to have been its function in pre-Christian Germanic art.

The work is still relatively little known, in part because Salomon's work doesn't appear on the international art market, as the whole archive belongs to the protective Charlotte Salomon Foundation based at the Joods Historisch Museum.

Carousel and fairground art specialist Rosa Ragan, who has restored several other carousels in the US, restored the Indian horse by removing the park paint, exposing as much of the original paint as possible, and filling in the gaps in the original paint, a process called inpainting, before covering the horse in a protective varnish.

The modern KiSS community on the internet resembles the dolling community with which there is a degree of overlap, though the two are distinct and each is protective of its own art.

His art can still be seen several places in the city, and in 2009 the city council choose to preserve Dolk's work " Spray " with protective glass.

Essential to his new approach was the ability to fight an active defence on the outer shores of the enveloping ditch, made possible by constructing an extra protective wall around the fortification.