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His tapering cranium and heavy jaw made him attractive to agents from van Emburgh's Circus in Somerville, New Jersey.
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Microcephalics are characterized by a small, tapering cranium and often have impaired mental faculty.
tapering and heavy
The skittles are about 15 cm high, square at the bottom but widening higher up then tapering to a shallow point, which leaves them slightly top heavy.
The shape could be that of a baseball bat with a thick heavy end tapering towards a slender handle or they could be straight all the way from the handle to the end, with the shaft being round or multi faceted.
tapering and jaw
Gently rounded top of head ; medium width between ears ; wide at eyebrow level and jaw hinge, tapering to a short, blunt wedge.
Its long canine teeth and a cow-like jaw, formed a tapering snout.
tapering and made
The poles, made of peeled, polished and dried tapering saplings ( historically pine ), are cut to measure about six feet more than the radius of the cover.
Special considerations can be made for loft conversions see paragraph 1. 10 of the approved document for clarification on the 1. 9 tapering to
Putative " burrows " dating as far back as may have been made by animals which fed on the undersides of microbial mats, which would have shielded them from a chemically unpleasant ocean ; however their uneven width and tapering ends make a biological origin so difficult to defend that even the original author no longer believes they are authentic.
The blade was made of steel, and was typically long and slim with a tapering needle point, measuring 12 inches ( 30 cm ) or more ; the whole dagger might be as long as 20 inches ( 50 cm ).
Two main shapes of Welsh hat were made during the 19th century: those with drum shaped ( vertical sided ) crowns were worn in north-west Wales, and those with slightly tapering crowns were found in the rest of Wales.
The nest is a cup made of moss, bamboo roots and grass, with a broad base and tapering towards the top.
Early examples were raised on slender cabriole legs ; under the influence of neoclassicism, examples made after about 1775 had straight, tapering legs.
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Modern excavations have discovered portions tapering column drums that may belonged to the turning posts at either end of the race-course, from whose location it appears that the hippodrome could have had a length of 320 meters and a width of 140.
Policies on dose reduction vary from clinic to clinic, from a focus on tapering the patient down to a low dose of Methadone so that they can be detoxified completely, to tapering the dose down to less than 10mg so that they are able to abstain completely.
The leads of the package extend diagonally inside the package from their positions of emergence along the periphery to points along a rectangular perimeter surrounding the die, tapering as they go to become fine contacts at the die.
Their legs, technically called lobopods, are loosely conical in shape, tapering from the body to their clawed tips.
Writing pyramid-style tossups can be more difficult because the answer must have many clues, ordered from unique and obscure to giveaway, without tapering too quickly or slowly.
The special molding, gradually tapering from the center to the edge, provides great flexibility and freer vibration across the board.
The bulldog of that time differed from the modern Bulldog, having a full muzzle and a long, tapering tail.
* Leaves: Alternate, seven to nine-lobed, oblong-ovate to oblong, five to ten inches long, four to six inches broad ; seven to eleven lobes tapering gradually from broad bases, acute, and usually repandly dentate and terminating with long bristle-pointed teeth ; the second pair of lobes from apex are largest ; midrib and primary veins conspicuous.
An obelisk ( from Greek ὀβελίσκος-obeliskos, diminutive of ὀβελός-obelos, " spit, nail, pointed pillar ") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top, and is said to resemble a petrified ray of the sun-disk.
Each tower consists of a pair of hollow vertical concrete columns, each tall and tapering from square at the base to at the top.
At first, the oval was on the left side of the label, with a tapering vertical line extending from the top and bottom.
The body forms of Cobitidae range from vermiform – worm-shaped, long and thin – to fusiform – spindle-shaped, cylindrical and tapering toward the ends.
Aside from the electric eel ( Electrophorus electricus ), Gymnotiformes are slender fish with narrow bodies and a tapering tail, hence the common name of " knifefishes ".
A strip of the animal's hide is cut and carved into a strip 3 to 5 feet ( 0. 9 to 1. 5 m ) long, tapering from about thick at the handle to about at the tip.
The muzzle is deep and broad, tapering slightly from the skull to the nose.
The proboscis or trunk consists wholly of muscular and membranous tissue, and is a tapering muscular structure of nearly circular cross-section extending proximally from attachment at the anterior nasal orifice, and ending distally in a tip or finger.
The bō is typically 3 cm ( 1. 25 inch ) thick, sometimes gradually tapering from the middle ( chukon-bu ) to 2 cm ( 0. 75 inch ) at the end ( kontei ).
The scientific species descriptor attenuata is Latin for ' tapering ' and refers to the gradual narrowing from the head to the tail fin.
Their color ranges from tan to brown, and the elytra are abbreviated, leaving several tapering tergites of the abdomen exposed.
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No additional transfusions were necessary after the institution of prednisone in July, 1957, in an initial dose of 40 mg. daily with gradual tapering to 10 mg. daily.
Her tanned foot, whose arch swept high and white, pointed artfully toward tapering toes -- toes like fingers, whose tips glowed white.
Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.
In the case of the tapering worm tubes Selkirkia, trilobites are always found with their heads directed towards the opening of the tube, suggesting that they reversed in ; the absence of any moulted carapaces suggests that moulting was not their primary reason for seeking shelter.
They typically have similar side effects to the SSRIs, though a withdrawal syndrome on discontinuation may necessitate dosage tapering.
The blue whale has a long tapering body that appears stretched in comparison with the stockier build of other whales.
The Ionic order is also marked by an entasis, a curved tapering in the column shaft.
In the earlier picture, the examples were flat to the shinogi, then tapering to the blade.
A typical size keel of a longer ship was 100 mm x 300 mm amidships, tapering in width at the bow and stern.
He produced new styles such as pilasters tapering thinner at the bottom, and a staircase with contrasting rectangular and curving forms.
Many poor, developing countries have a broad base and steadily tapering higher levels, which reflects a large number of births and young children but much smaller age cohorts in later years as a result of relatively short life expectancies.
Note that a point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape.
A glaive is a polearm consisting of a single-edged tapering blade similar in shape to a modern kitchen knife on the end of a pole.
Their legs are thought to have been short, thick, tapering and to have ended in a single strong claw ; it appears that they were well-adapted for maintaining a secure hold upon rocks or seaweed against the wash of waves, like the legs of a shore crab.
The head is long, skull flat, with little stop and a tapering muzzle.
He also proposed tapering the cable thickness so that the stress in the cable was constant — this gives a thin cable at ground level, thickening up towards GSO.
The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, even of palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering.
It is distinguished by a tapering head and a dorsal crest.
Other variations exist as well — for example, double-V preparation joints are characterized by the two pieces of material each tapering to a single center point at one-half their height.
The first is an instrumental, while the second is abbreviated, tapering off as it does in the film.
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