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lid
Both plants ultimately perished, from the admission of rain water, in consequence of the rusting of the lid.
The effect of monocular lid suture is obvious in individual animals, because deprivation shrinks one eye's columns and expands the other's.
The incubator has ten parallel germination chambers, covered with lids of transparent polycarbonate, in a block of aluminium.
After equilibration, the lid was removed leaving the aluminium foil in place.
The converse, whereby the lid everts, exposing the conjunctiva, is similarly troublesome and causes watering.
After covering with a lid, the cooked food was similarly stored.
Inside of the "barrel," a small plate - probably a former lid-was wedged diagonally.
Inside of the "barrel," a small plate- probably a former lid-was wedged diagonally.
These are made out of roomy biscuit tins (lined with felt), with the lid ajar.
The grave consisted of a simple limestone slab-lined crypt originally closed by a wooden lid sealed in place with plaster.
More recent efforts have replaced the rigid lid with a free-surface boundary condition, which restores the finite speed of propagation for the barotropic subsystem.
These may have functioned as lids for complex censers or braziers.
Once the two lids were in place, there was little else to demarcate them except their relative spatial position.
However, the bolts are put in implicit focus because they are related to the action of attaching the lid to the container.
Similar behaviour was observed in the two cases, although the zonal wavenumber was generally greater with the rigid lid.
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