They possessed no outer fortifications, no hard shells of confidence ; ;

The fruit of the almond is a drupe, consisting of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed or " nut " ( which is not a true nut ) inside.

The word capsule alludes to how Capcom likened its game software to " a capsule packed to the brim with gaming fun ", as well as to the company's desire to protect its intellectual property with a hard outer shell, preventing illegal copies and inferior imitations.

When the sperm breaks through the hard outer shell of the egg a new cell embryo is formed, which, in humans, grows to full size in 9 months.

Others have hard exoskeletons, outer shells like those of insects and crustaceans.

Cortical bone is the hard outer shell of bones and the middle of long bones.

* Seashell, a hard outer layer of a marine animal, found on beaches

The outer hard portion of bread is called the crust.

After dragging the cockroach to a burrow, the wasp deposits an egg into its carcass, burying it for the growing larvae to feed off until it emerges in 6 weeks, leaving nothing but a hard outer cockroach shell.

For this reason, if the outer surface of the apparatus were to consist of layers of a very infusible hard substance with layers of a poor heat conductor between, the surface would not be eroded to any considerable extent, especially as the velocity of the apparatus would not be nearly so great as that of the average meteor.

The poles are actually huge, subtly curving holes that allow passage between the outer and inner world, although it is a long, hard trek through a cold, unlit, stormy and anti-magic area.

Another specialized term is also used for Cucurbitaceae fruits, which are modified to have a hard outer rind, and are given the special name pepo.

The first one is a hard outer shiny brown hull or husk, called the pericarpus ; the industry calls this the peel.

A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal that lives in the sea.

Bran is the hard outer layer of cereal grains ;

In the Earth the lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, which constitute the hard and rigid outer layer of the Earth.

* Paintball jerseys and pants: Originally derived from motocross and BMX attire, tournament players commonly wear special outer clothing with integrated padding that allows the player a free range of motion, and helps protect the player both from paintball hits and from incidental contact with rocks and hard ground.

The conventional motorcycle helmet has two principal protective components: a thin, hard, outer shell typically made from polycarbonate plastic, fiberglass, or Kevlar and a soft, thick, inner liner usually made of expanded polystyrene or polypropylene " EPS " foam.

The purpose of the hard outer shell is:

The upper, and in some cases the lower, mandibles are strengthened internally by a complex three-dimensional network of bony spicules ( or trabeculae ) seated in soft connective tissue and surrounded by the hard outer layers of the beak.

In addition, rigorous brushing and heat styling, rough scalp massage can damage the cuticle, the hard outer casing of the hair.

* Invention of the India rubber bladder enables the modern ball to be created with the bladder inside a hard outer casing, at first made of leather.

Unlike most other grains, the outer hull of the popcorn kernel is both strong and impervious to moisture, and the starch inside consists almost entirely of a hard, dense type.

If heated too quickly, the steam in the outer layers of the kernel can reach high pressures and rupture the hull before the starch in the center of the kernel can fully gelatinize, leading to partially popped kernels with hard centers.

Aluminium also causes a highly beneficial hard layer of aluminium oxide ( Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >) to be formed on the surface that is thin, transparent and self-healing.

Today, the floor event occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood, which is supported by springs or foam blocks generally called a " spring " floor.

The strips are then placed side by side on a hard surface with their edges slightly overlapping, and then another layer of strips is laid on top at a right angle.

The hard bake solidifies the remaining photoresist, to make a more durable protecting layer in future ion implantation, wet chemical etching, or plasma etching.

The seed coat in the mature seed can be a paper-thin layer ( e. g. peanut ) or something more substantial ( e. g. thick and hard in honey locust and coconut ).

That hard layer of stone eroded more slowly than the underlying materials.

In time, the river eroded the soft layer that supported the hard layers, undercutting the hard caprock, which gave way in great chunks.

Drupes are fleshy fruits produced from a ( usually ) single-seeded ovary with a hard stony layer ( called the endocarp ) surrounding the seed.

The skin of the ray ( same in Japanese ) is used as an under layer for the cord or leather wrap ( known as ito in Japanese ) on Japanese swords due to its hard, rough, skin texture that keeps the braided wrap from sliding on the handle during use.

* Callus – A small area of skin, usually on the foot, that has become thick and hard from rubbing or pressure as a result of increased production of surface skin ( i. e., the topmost living cell layer ); the callus itself is the result of this overgrowth and is itself a thickened ' dead cell surface layer '.

High Force was formed where the River Tees crosses the Whin Sill – a hard layer of igneous rock ( also seen at Hadrian's Wall and other locations ).

Between these two layers is a thinner layer of Carboniferous sandstone, which was baked hard when the Whin Sill was molten 295 million years ago.

For marketing purposes, these bullets are often plated with a thin layer of copper or copper-alloy ( referred to as wash ) and are usually coated with a hard wax for fouling control ( soft, grease, coatings are used in some target ammunition ).

* Armor Piercing ( AP ): A hard bullet made from steel or tungsten alloys in a pointed shape typically covered by a thin layer of lead and or a copper or brass jacket.

* IP phone tracking that automatically assigns locations to IP hard phones, soft phones and wireless phones as they move on the corporate network using layer 2, layer 3, or wireless LAN discovery.

The geological formation of the area consisted of a hard, thin layer of Platteville Formation, a limestone, overlaying the soft St. Peter Sandstone sub-surface.

To keep the lake with a hard layer of ice, the snow was removed as it fell ; if the ice was not thick enough it could create problems with flooding the spectator areas during the events.