Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

Members of this order with smooth skins are commonly referred to as frogs while those with warted skins are known as toads.

This term referred to the temporary accommodation provided for those who went to Scotland to pick potatoes.

These measured positions are then compared with those calculated by the laws of celestial mechanics: an assembly of calculated positions is often referred to as an ephemeris, in which distances are commonly calculated in astronomical units.

In the Iliad, the Amazons were referred to as Antianeirai (" those who fight like men ").

Finally it was in this region that there arose certain early glosses ( e. g., 19: 9 ; 20: 15 ), probably the earliest of those referred to below.

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

Canadian federal statutes must use the terminology of both the common law and civil law for those matters ; this is referred to as legislative bijuralism.

At this time, the term " Chicano " began to reference those who resisted total assimilation, while the term " Pochos " referred ( often pejoratively ) to those who strongly advocated assimilation.

* Individuals ( commonly referred as gurus and infotainers ) that pass out advice as these specialists play an important role in society, disseminating expert knowledge to those without time or inclination to become the same.

The most prominent kind of company, usually referred to as a " corporation ", is a " juristic person ", i. e. it has separate legal personality, and those who invest money into the business have limited liability for any losses the company makes, governed by corporate law.

" Chipmunks have also been referred to as " striped squirrels ," " chippers ," " munks ," " timber tigers ," or " ground squirrels ," although the name " ground squirrel " usually refers to other squirrels, such as those of the genus Spermophilus.

It is also becoming increasingly popular to crochet hats ( commonly referred to as " chemo caps ") and donate them to cancer treatment centers, for those undergoing chemotherapy.

As a child, he was involved in an accident that cost his younger brother an eye ; he later referred to this as an experience teaching him the need to be protective of those under him.

Of those, only musica instrumentalis referred to music as performed sound.

Musica instrumentalis, finally, was the lowliest of the three disciplines and referred to the manifestation of those same mathematical proportions in sound — be it sung or played on instruments.

Draugar are noted for having numerous magical abilities ( referred to as trollskap ) resembling those of living witches and wizards, such as shape-shifting, controlling the weather, and seeing into the future.

In those inscriptions that bear their names, Diocletian and his companions are referred to as " restorers of the whole world ", men who succeeded in " defeating the nations of the barbarians, and confirming the tranquility of their world ".

Upper levels of degree are anyway shown in the title, as those who obtain a master's degree can be referred to as " dottore / dottoressa magistrale " ( masterly doctor ) while those who achieve the relatively new program of " dottorato di ricerca " ( research doctorate, equivalent of a Ph. D .), carry the title of " dottore / dottoressa di ricerca " ( research doctor ), which can be abbreviated as " Dott.

However, custom gives the legislation little strength and all graduates keep their titles, and those with a doctorate are referred as Professor Doutor.

The cities and communities southwest of Detroit along the American side of the river are popularly referred to as the Downriver area, because those areas are said to be " down the river " from Detroit.

Many-worlds is often referred to as a theory, rather than just an interpretation, by those who propose that many-worlds can make testable predictions ( such as David Deutsch ) or is falsifiable ( such as Everett ) or by those who propose that all the other, non-MW interpretations, are inconsistent, illogical or unscientific in their handling of measurements ; Hugh Everett argued that his formulation was a metatheory, since it made statements about other interpretations of quantum theory ; that it was the " only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

During this race, Earnhardt was briefly forced into the infield grass, but kept control of his car and returned to the track without giving up his lead — a maneuver now referred to as the " Pass in the Grass " even though Earnhardt actually didn't pass and couldn't have passed anyone for position as he was in the lead at the time.

( Some soldiers referred to Spam as " ham that didn't pass its physical " and " meatloaf without basic training ".

In his first official trade as GM, he shocked Giants fans by trading Matt Williams to Cleveland for what newspapers referred to as a ' bunch of spare parts ', with the negative reaction being great enough for him to have to publicly explain: " I didn't get to this point by being an idiot ...

The group is also sometimes referred to as the " Slayerettes ," mostly in early episodes or later in the scene descriptions to refer to the Potentials, but mostly it didn't catch on with fans.

Most county residents had roots in northern U. S. states " back east " like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, and didn't have the strong slave-holding tradition of other northern Missouri counties like Macon, Audrain, and Monroe ( commonly referred to as Little Dixie ) whose population largely emigrated from Southern states.

Some of the letters referred to the size of the state's ownership interest in the corporation targeted, which critics claimed amounted to a veiled threat to punish companies that didn't hire his relatives.

Jay-Z has been referred to as Big Daddy Kane's hype man during this period, though Kane explains that he didn't fill the traditional hype man role, instead Jay-Z " basically made cameo appearances on stage.

As a development, the bare name of a ship in the Royal Navy meant its captain ( e. g., " Cressy didn't learn from Aboukir ") while the name with an article referred to the ship ( e. g., " The Cressy is foundering ").

As Bob Conlon, regional executive with the Independent Television Commission, said: " People never really grasped the name-it didn't exactly trip off the tongue and it was still referred to as Tyne Tees Television, because it has been there for years.

The motion didn't cite evidence for the allegation, rather the attorney referred to four sources whom she at the time refused to identify.

For instance, when Washoe's mate Moja didn't know the word for " thermos ", Moja referred to it as a " METAL CUP DRINK ".

He referred to the film, saying he was bothered most by the closing credits ' reference that he never taught again: " I didn't stop teaching, though it was a long time before I taught again in a college.

" When asked to explain why there had been a retraction for the Governor but not for Sullivan, the Secretary of the Times testified: " We did that because we didn't want anything that was published by the Times to be a reflection on the State of Alabama and the Governor was, as far as we could see, the embodiment of the State of Alabama and the proper representative of the state and, furthermore, we had by that time learned more of the actual facts which the ad purported to recite and, finally, the ad did refer to the action of the state authorities and the Board of Education presumably of which the Governor is the ex-officio chairman ...." On the other hand, he testified that he did not think that " any of the language in there referred to Mr. Sullivan.

Ironically, according to Parker's Archive of American Television interview, Ford had originally wanted to cast Parker in Hunter's role in The Searchers but Disney refused to loan him out and Parker didn't hear about until years later ; Parker referred to his loss of that part to Jeffrey Hunter as his single biggest career setback.

Watson testified at trial that his comments about having an " organophosphate bomb " only referred to the two cans of Raid bug bombs he had in the tractor, which he threatened to use if he didn't get media coverage only because he wished to demonstrate the harmfulness of insecticides.

He said that he " couldn't stand " the president and later referred to him as a " clown ," but also noted that he was leery of supporting impeachment because his constituents didn't agree with such a drastic move.

Other heretics went as far as to claim that words such as " zakāt " or " prayer " didn't mean praying or giving alms, but instead that the words referred to a man and not to an actual action.

She referred to the way the song " kept on evolving into, not only what I wanted to say, but what I wanted to say and didn't even know was in there.

Though the arcade's playable boxer didn't have an official name, he was referred to as " Little Mac ", because of his small stature and the " Mac " part being a play on the popular McDonald's hamburger, the Big Mac.

Arnett has referred to 2000, the year after that show was cancelled, as " the darkest year of life " and he admits that he " didn't get a lot of work " and " drank those years away ".

Before the establishment of the State of Israel, the meaning of the word " Palestinian " didn't discriminate on ethnic grounds, but rather referred to anything associated with the region.

Shortly after the announcement, fellow KABC talk show host Larry Elder has referred to Rantel as one half of the Marx Brothers stating that he believed Rantel didn't believe in the conservative principles he professed and that, by voting for Obama, he had more Marxist leanings.

On April 24, 2010, at the 2010 NFL Draft, Millen apparently referred to fellow ESPN commentator Ron Jaworski as a " Polack ", after which he made an on-air apology, stating that he " didn't mean anything " by the remark.

He referred to it as the St. Francis river in his published journals, although obviously the name didn't stick.

The comic's anniversary falls on Valentine's Day ( February 14 ), which is jokingly referred to as Von Hunter Day on the site ( after Van decided that anyone who didn't want to celebrate Valentine's Day should have an alternative ).