8XGAMESLATES ... a pair of feathers on each joint, and with its wings furnished with two free claws, has been discovered in the oolitic ______ of Solenhofen. 89A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. ;<An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates. >?A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election.CDA list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand. A prepared piece of such stone.A thin plate of any material.A tablet for writing upon.Argillaceous schist.( Argillite.*To set a dog upon.NAMED  VWThese bud variations, as they may be _____, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc.x... must, however, in many cases, decide by a majority of naturalists, for few well-marked and well-known varieties can be _____ which have not be...... palaeontologist, Edward Forbes, should never be forgotten, namely, that very many fossil species are known and _____ from single and often bro...Not one of our domestic animals can be _____ which has not in some country drooping ears; and the view which has been suggested that the drooping ...... species have now become naturalised on it, as they have in New Zealand and on every other oceanic island which can be _____.)... occur in many parts of the world on very small islands, when lying close to a continent; and hardly an island can be _____ on which our smalle...0Turning to the Invertebrata, Barrande asserts, a higher authority could not be _____, that he is every day taught that, although palaeozoic animal...KNumerous existing doubtful forms could be _____ which are probably varieties; but who will pretend that in future ages so many fossil links will b...e... proportion of living and known forms is to the extinct and unknown, I have been astonished how rarely an organ can be _____, towards which no ...-}No country can be _____ in which all the native inhabitants are now so perfectly adapted to each other and to the physical conditions under which ...+,As, a named source. Opposite of anonymous.TANTA small scarlet arachnid.BASE bcThe tail has a terminal dark bar, with the outer feathers externally edged at the ____ with white.MIn many cases the vibracula have a grooved support at the ____, which seems to represent the fixed beak; though this support in some species is qu...~These rhombs have certain angles, and the three which form the pyramidal ____ of a single cell on one side of the comb, enter into the composition...~... for I have repeatedly seen, but only in the autumn, many hive-bees sucking the flowers through holes bitten in the ____ of the tube by humble ...Mivart, tridactyle forcepses, immovably fixed at the ____, but capable of a snapping action, certainly exist on some star- fishes; and this is int...... for the sake of eliminating something injurious from the sap: this is effected, for instance, by glands at the ____ of the stipules in some Le...=... and they would then have formed a breast, but at first without a nipple, as we see in the Ornithorhyncus, at the ____ of the mammalian series....H... threads; but as these are not confined to orchids, they need not here be considered; yet I may mention that at the ____ of the orchidaceous se...(x... on their flanks rather full, to the so-called flying squirrels; and flying squirrels have their limbs and even the ____ of the tail united by ...... speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements?--and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the ____ with which it in prefe...D... extensive mountainous region; a second to a comparatively narrow, hilly tract; and a third to the wide plains at the ____; and that the inhabi... 23A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part.34Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing../The positive, or non-acid component of a salt.-.The point or line from which a start is made.,-The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.,-A starting place or a goal in various games.:;The number from which a mathematical table is constructed. &'The lower part of a robe or petticoat.#$The chief ingredient in a compound.ABAny one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield. SETTER CSome highly competent authorities are convinced that the ______ is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. 67Used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter.-.One who adapts words to music in composition.#$One who hunts victims for sharpers. A shallow seggar for porcelain.One who, or that which, sets.% An adornment.% A decoration.-With..VWTo cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue. EYES  pqThis state of the ____ is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection.-}~The ____ of moles and of some burrowing rodents are rudimentary in size, and in some cases are quite covered by skin and fur.MAs it is difficult to imagine that ____, though useless, could be in any way injurious to animals living in darkness, their loss may be attributed...QSome instances of correlation are quite whimsical; thus cats which are entirely white and have blue ____ are generally deaf; but it has been latel...... on the breast of the wild turkey-cock cannot be of any use, and it is doubtful whether it can be ornamental in the ____ of the female bird; in...A... numberless generations, the deepest recesses, disuse will on this view have more or less perfectly obliterated its ____, and natural selection...OAs frequent inflammation of the ____ must be injurious to any animal, and as ____ are certainly not necessary to animals having subterranean habit...#s... America are distinct; but it is possible that the progenitors of these several species, while they were furnished with ____, may formerly have...Q... Silliman at above half a mile distance from the mouth of the cave, and therefore not in the profoundest depths, the ____ were lustrous and of ...HWhat can be more singular than the relation in cats between complete whiteness and blue ____ with deafness, or between the tortoise-shell colour a...... races of plants, most useful to man at different seasons and for different purposes, or so beautiful in his ____, we must, I think, look furth... 56As, an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss.*+The space commanded by the organ of sight. ()An eye for the beautiful or picturesque. &'The spots on a feather, as of peacock. &'The hole through the head of a needle. &'The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber. >?That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty. %&The hole through the upper millstone.BCThe presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted.!"The action of the organ of sight. SIDES   _`They arise from the palate, and are attached by flexible membrane to the _____ of the mandible.9During early youth, however, they stand opposite to each other, and the whole body is then symmetrical, with both _____ equally coloured.oIn the higher Vertebrata the branchiae have wholly disappeared--but in the embryo the slits on the _____ of the neck and the loop-like course of t...u... conclusions, no slight effort of reason and memory is left to the reader, who may wish to weigh the evidence on both _____.... a multitude of inimitable contrivances in nature, this same reason tells us, though we may easily err on both _____, that some other contrivan...In this latter species the lamellae are much coarser than in the shoveller, and are firmly attached to the _____ of the mandible; they are only ab...At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all _____, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, ...#~... case the intermediate form would be eminently liable to the inroads of closely allied forms existing on both _____ of it.SAs buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all _____ many a feebler branch, so by generation I b...M... short shoulder-stripes, like those on the dun Devonshire and Welsh ponies, and even had some zebra-like stripes on the _____ of its face.u... exposed to similar conditions, seem eminently liable to vary in a like manner: we see this in the right and left _____ of the body varying in ... 01The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface.89The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body. ()A bounding line of a geometrical figure. <=Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other. &'Or that which pertains to such a half. &'A doctrine or view opposed to another.ABHence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another.!"A body of advocates or partisans.LMAlso, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another.#To furnish with a siding. DUGONG P  1No one regards the external similarity of a mouse to a shrew, of a ______ to a whale, of a whale to a fish, as of any importance.As an instance: Owen, in speaking of the ______, says, "The generative organs, being those which are most remotely related to the habits and food ...The Sirenia form a very distinct group of the mammals, and one of the most remarkable peculiarities in existing ______ and lamentin is the entire ...oAn aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia.DOORS&... the slaves in Switzerland habitually work with their masters in making the nest, and they alone open and close the _____ in the morning and ev...Means of approach or access.PQAn opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out."An entrance way."TUAn entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.* Passage.dThe frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. TEND    efBut, by steps hereafter to be explained, the larger genera also ____ to break up into smaller genera.lmA struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings ____ to increase.)yzLook at the most vigorous species; by as much as it swarms in numbers, by so much will it ____ to increase still further.?But so many causes ____ to obscure this result, that I am surprised that my tables show even a small majority on the side of the larger genera.rThus the larger genera ____ to become larger; and throughout nature the forms of life which are now dominant ____ to become still more dominant by...... of divergence of character, we shall see how this may be explained, and how the lesser differences between varieties ____ to increase into the...... which in any way favoured the individuals of any species, by better adapting them to their altered conditions, would ____ to be preserved; and... ... each class which on an average yield the greatest number of varieties, and varieties, as we shall hereafter see, ____ to become converted into...1... and that, when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear at any particular age, yet that it does ____ to appear in the offsp...h... species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will ____ to the preservation...`As we see that those variations which, under domestication, appear at any particular period of life, ____ to reappear in the offspring at the same... 23To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose.*+To accompany as an assistant or protector.#$To wait, as attendants or servants. To move in a certain direction. To exert activity or influence.!Usually with to or towards."To have or give a leaning.#To care for the wants of.(To serve as a means.)To be attentive to. EDGE    MBut a plant on the ____ of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent on th...U... longest, being about one-third of an inch in length, and they project fourteen one- hundredths of an inch beneath the ____.Now bees, as may be clearly seen by examining the ____ of a growing comb, do make a rough, circumferential wall or rim all round the comb; and the...=... of wax on the lines of intersection between the basins, so that each hexagonal prism was built upon the scalloped ____ of a smooth basin, inst...... most striking case: I took in February three tablespoonfuls of mud from three different points, beneath water, on the ____ of a little pond; t... 45The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument.45The border or part adjacent to the line of division.Any sharp terminating border.Readiness or fitness to cut.The beginning or early part.$%To make sharp or keen, figuratively.#$To furnish with a fringe or border.!"As, edging their chairs forwards.Intenseness of desire."To sail close to the wind. HATRED      h... then slaughtered by their sterile sisters; at the astonishing waste of pollen by our fir-trees; at the instinctive ______ of the queen-bee for...... by their industrious and sterile sisters? It may be difficult, but we ought to admire the savage instinctive ______ of the queen-bee, which ur...@AAn affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil."Strong aversion."Intense dislike.-Hate. SETS    c... exotic Lobelia fulgens is never visited in my garden by insects, and consequently, from its peculiar structure, never ____ a seed.This antenna, when touched, transmits a sensation or vibration to a certain membrane which is instantly ruptured; this ____ free a spring by which...I... the size and colour of the pollen-grains, and in some other respects; and as in each of the three forms there are two ____ of stamens, the thr...JAnd thus, when the two ____ became commingled in the equatorial regions, during the alternations of the Glacial periods, the northern forms were t...X... as they come into competition (which, as we shall hereafter see, is a far more important circumstance) with different ____ of organic beings.... flower is ready to receive them; and as this flower is never visited, at least in my garden, by insects, it never ____ a seed, though by placi... 23Also, the series of figures or movements executed.45The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting.78Any collection or group of objects considered together.89Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.9:The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body. )*As, the set of the wind, or of a current. 23To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal. 34To make to assume a specified position or attitude. 34To give an unchanging place, form, or condition to. 01To variegate with objects placed here and there. EGYPT     zIt has been argued that, as none of the animals and plants of _____, of which we know anything, have changed during the last three or four thousan...... birds are not more fearful than small; and the magpie, so wary in England, is tame in Norway, as is the hooded crow in _____. ]... believe in the multiple origin of our domestic animals is, that we find in the most ancient times, on the monuments of _____, and in the lake-...#s... case, for these have been exposed to great changes of climate and have migrated over great distances; whereas, in _____, during the last sever...EwxA country at the northeastern corner of Africa. At one time it was joined with Syria to form the United Arab Republic.GENTLE    ]... been worn by the waves and pared all round into perpendicular cliffs of one or two thousand feet in height; for the ______ slope of the lava-s...v... with its dissolved carbonic acid, and in colder countries to frost; the disintegrated matter is carried down even ______ slopes during heavy r... $%A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.$%A dipterous larva used as fish bait.89Of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.:;A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation.$%To make kind and docile, as a horse.#$Not wild, turbulent, or refractory.#$To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. !Not strong, loud, or disturbing.Quiet and refined in manners.!Not rough, harsh, or stern.FOALS  ... hemionus with a distinct shoulder-stripe, though it properly has none; and I have been informed by Colonel Poole that _____ of this species ar...QSo, again, I was told that the _____ of cart and race-horses--breeds which have been almost wholly formed by selection under domestication--differ...9:The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidæ. 56To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.$Said of a mare or a she.%To bring forth (a colt.* A filly.+A colt.DIRT   5But there is no doubt that besides removing ____ of all kinds, they subserve other functions; and one of these apparently is defence.3... shores of Ireland and England; but seeds could be transported by these rare wanderers only by one means, namely, by ____ adhering to their fee... [... instance, the millions of quails across the Mediterranean--must occasionally transport a few seeds embedded in ____ adhering to their feet or ... \... remote and barren islands of the open ocean; they would not be likely to alight on the surface of the sea, so that any ____ on their feet woul...67In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. ;<Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc. ;<Whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean.%To make foul of filthy.' Sordidness.) Meanness.,Earth.MILE   Q... of the blind animals, namely, the cave-rat (Neotoma), two of which were captured by Professor Silliman at above half a ____ distance from the ...CuvA certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet. DEEPEN  ... wall or rim all round the comb; and they gnaw this away from the opposite sides, always working circularly as they ______ each cell.v... especially in arid districts, by the wind; it is then transported by the streams and rivers, which, when rapid ______ their channels, and trit...#$To make more poignant or affecting."#To make more grave or low in tone. To make darker or more intense.#To increase the depth of.&To increase in degree..To sink lower.2 To darken.!REAL!  78Here is a better and ____ illustration: According to M.klTo admit this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a ____ for an unreal, or at least for an unknown cause.CThat the small size of the egg is a ____ case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs.OOne of the most obvious ____ cases is, that variations of structure arising in the young or larvae naturally tend to affect the structure of the m...PMcDonnell has shown, another organ near the head, not known to be electrical, but which appears to be the ____ homologue of the electric battery i...eBut the ____ importance of a large number of eggs or seeds is to make up for much destruction at some period of life; and this period in the great...Modern research has much diminished the number of supposed hermaphrodites and of ____ hermaphrodites a large number pair; that is, two individuals...Beyond this superficial resemblance, there is hardly any ____ similarity between the eyes of cuttle-fish and vertebrates, as may be seen by consul...... in some degree staggered; but, to the best of my judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are ____ are not, I think, fat...1... theory--I may first remark that the sense of beauty obviously depends on the nature of the mind, irrespective of any ____ quality in the admir...$tWhy, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little ____ novelty? Why should all the parts and organs of many independen... #$A former small Spanish silver coin.+,Not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious.@AHaving an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning.#$Relating to things, not to persons. Not fictitious or imaginary. Often opposed to ostensible.!Actually being or existing.'OPPertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements.)[\Also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system..Not imaginary."TASTE"DWe may infer from all this that a nearly similar _____ for beautiful colours and for musical sounds runs through a large part of the animal kingdom.tA number of curious and authentic instances could be given of various shades of disposition and _____, and likewise of the oddest tricks, associat... [... for this purpose as that of the nuthatch, at the same time that habit, or compulsion, or spontaneous variations of _____, led the bird to beco... 45Usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure. &'A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.$%A small portion given as a specimen.-.To have perception, experience, or enjoyment.*+To become acquainted with by actual trial.*+To have a particular quality or character. Formerly with of, now with for.GHThe power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances.JKThe quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue."#To try by the touch of the tongue.$CRACKS$% &The same story is told still more plainly by faults--those great ______ along which the strata have been upheaved on one side, or thrown down on t... /0The sound of anything suddenly burst or broken.*+The tone of voice when changed at puberty. ()A chance or opportunity to do something.67To break, with or without quite separating into parts.$%A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. !A sharp, sudden sound or report.EFA partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening.'(To cause to sound suddenly and sharply.'(To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.Breach, in a moral sense.'SHOCK' hiI see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should _____ the religious feelings of any one. 34A term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods./0Also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.+,A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings. 45To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust."#A sudden violent impulse or onset.!"A lot consisting of sixty pieces.A blow, impact, or collision.A dog with long hair or shag.A thick mass of bushy hair."#Hence, to strike against suddenly.(SENT()>From the highly developed structure of the shoveller's beak we may proceed (as I have learned from information and specimens ____ to me by Mr.@Bosquet, ____ me a drawing of a perfect specimen of an unmistakable sessile cirripede, which he had himself extracted from the chalk of Belgium.JCruger ____ me a flower in spirits of wine, with a bee which he had killed before it had quite crawled out, with a pollen-mass still fastened to i...}Weale ____ me in a letter a small packet of the dried pellets, out of which I extracted under the microscope several seeds, and raised from them s...For instance, Professor Newton ____ me the leg of a red-legged partridge (Caccabis rufa) which had been wounded and could not fly, with a ball of ...The monarchs of Iran and Turan ____ him some very rare birds;" and, continues the courtly historian, "His Majesty, by crossing the breeds, which m...Here is a better case: the leg of a woodcock was ____ to me by a friend, with a little cake of dry earth attached to the shank, weighing only nine...)*D pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.)See Scent, v. &..P. p. of Send.2 Imp. &.*ERED*+To plow. [Obs.] See Ear, v. t.0 Sooner than.0 Rather than.5Before.,RIGHTS, 1fusca), and she instantly set to work, fed and saved the survivors; made some cells and tended the larvae, and put all to ______. 34Freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong./0Obedience to lawful authority, divine or human.-.That which one has a claim to possess or own.,-That which one has a natural claim to exact.+,Privilege or immunity granted by authority. =>That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact. >?The interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property. 01Conforming to the standard of truth and justice.67To bring or restore to the proper or natural position.78To recover the proper or natural condition or position.-LESS-  67Several other ____ distinct breeds might be specified./Pigeons were much valued by Akber Khan in India, about the year 1600; never ____ than 20,000 pigeons were taken with the court.?If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, ____ strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable.RIn some cases, however, unchanged, or but little changed, individuals of the same breed exist in ____ civilised districts, where the breed has bee...... and compare them with closely allied species, we generally perceive in each domestic race, as already remarked, ____ uniformity of character t...... rarely or never seed! In some few cases it has been discovered that a very trifling change, such as a little more or ____ water at some partic...J... manner as do the closely allied species of the same genus in a state of nature, but the differences in most cases are ____ in degree. Y... at this early age progressed considerably in civilisation; and this again implies a long continued previous period of ____ advanced civilisati.../... or disuse of parts has had a more marked influence; thus I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh ____ and the bones of th...May not those naturalists who, knowing far ____ of the laws of inheritance than does the breeder, and knowing no more than he does of the intermed...... has been crossed only once the tendency to revert to any character derived from such a cross will naturally become ____ and ____, as in each s... "#The inferior, younger, or smaller.A smaller portion or quantity.In a smaller or lower degree.&Not so large or great.0 Not so much.0 Not so much.3 Inferior.4 Smaller.4 Shorter.5Unless..CARES.Y... or only with much difficulty, any deviation of structure excepting such as is externally visible; and indeed he rarely _____ for what is inter.../... and visible characters: Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, _____ nothing for appear... ,-The object of watchful attention or anxiety. %&A burdensome sense of responsibility../Sometimes followed by an objective of measure.!"Trouble caused by onerous duties. Attention or heed. To be anxious or solicitous.!To have regard or interest."TUCharge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.% Watchfulness.& Heedfulness.STATES  4Walsh, a distinguished entomologist of the United ______, has described what he calls Phytophagic varieties and Phytophagic species.<We see this in the recent extension over parts of the United ______ of one species of swallow having caused the decrease of another species.?Livingstone ______ that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans.OWalsh to present in their larval or mature state, or in both ______, slight, though constant differences in colour, size, or in the nature of thei...j}... to the forms that differ by characters never varying on the same tree, and never found connected by intermediate ______.Compare the several floras of Great Britain, of France, or of the United ______, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising number...8... animals, in the two or three castes of sterile females or workers among insects, and in the immature and larval ______ of many of the lower an...^... areas, there is always a good chance that intermediate forms will be discovered which will link together the extreme ______; and these are the...l... a very different vegetation springs up; but it has been observed that ancient Indian ruins in the Southern United ______, which must formerly ...... characters of the most trifling importance; yet we hear from an excellent horticulturist, Downing, that in the United ______ smooth-skinned fr...$... by poor people, and little attention paid to their breeding; for recently in certain parts of Spain and of the United ______ this animal has b... 89The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country.9:A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais. <=A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. &'The principal persons in a government.$%Condition of prosperity or grandeur.$%Wealthy or prosperous circumstances."#Appearance of grandeur or dignity."#A political body, or body politic.EFThe circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time."#To set down in detail or in gross.TINT ectinoThroughout an enormously large proportion of the ocean, the bright blue ____ of the water bespeaks its purity.LWhen the oldest and truest breeds of various colours are crossed, we see a strong tendency for the blue ____ and bars and marks to reappear in the...QIn the horse we see this tendency strong whenever a dun ____ appears--a ____ which approaches to that of the general colouring of the other specie...'... embedded within a fruit of any kind (that is within a fleshy or pulpy envelope), if it be coloured of any brilliant ____, or rendered conspicu...j... races) of a bluish colour, with certain bars and other marks; and when any breed assumes by simple variation a bluish ____, these bars and oth...g... inferred that the blue colour was a case of reversion from the number of the markings, which are correlated with this ____, and which would no... ?@A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.#$A pale or faint tinge of any color.JKA shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.To give a slight coloring to. A slight coloring.3 To tinge.SUMMARY   =_______ OF CHAPTER.=_______ OF CHAPTER.H _______.H _______.H _______.@... of dense clouds of pollen by our fir-trees, so that a few granules may be wafted by chance on to the ovules? _______ THE LAW OF UNITY OF TY...~... simultaneous -- Difficulties of the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- _______.4... characters variable -- Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner -- Reversions to long-lost characters -- _______.f... -- On the state of development of ancient forms -- On the succession of the same types within the same areas -- _______ of preceding and prese...W... and of their mongrel offspring not universal -- Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility -- _______.B... Advance in organisation -- Low forms preserved -- Convergence of character -- Indefinite multiplication of species -- _______. 12Reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words. %&A general or comprehensive statement.An abridged account.#Hence, rapidly performed.*Formed into a sum.*\]An abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.+Quickly executed.0 Compendious.4 Concise.6Brief.JUDGE  5But whether it is true, we can _____ only by seeing how far the hypothesis accords with and explains the general phenomena of nature.<Natural selection will not produce absolute perfection, nor do we always meet, as far as we can _____, with this high standard under nature.Q... structures as the above lamellae of horn or whalebone, habit or use can have done little or nothing, as far as we can _____, towards their dev...[Natural selection will not necessarily lead to absolute perfection; nor, as far as we can _____ by our limited faculties, can absolute perfection ...fIn looking at many small points of difference between species, which, as far as our ignorance permits us to _____, seem quite unimportant, we must...... as of high value, may be wholly due to the laws of variation and correlation, without being, as far as we can _____, of the slightest service ...As far as I am able to _____, after long attending to the subject, the conditions of life appear to act in two ways--directly on the whole organis...Under free nature we have no standard of comparison by which to _____ of the effects of long-continued use or disuse, for we know not the parent-f...The former seems to be much the more important; for nearly similar variations sometimes arise under, as far as we can _____, dissimilar conditions...... florets, which are of service in making the flowers conspicuous to insects, natural selection cannot, as far as we can _____, have come into p...<... better acquainted with the works of agriculturalists than almost any other individual, and who was himself a very good _____ of animals, speak... 34The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament. /0To exercise the functions of a magistrate over.-.To hear and determine, as in causes on trial.BCOne who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness.$%To arrogate judicial authority over."#To determine upon or deliberation. !To examine and pass sentence on.#To form an opinion about.$A connoisseur.$To be censorious toward.NOTED... swifter horses in the one case, and of stronger ones in the other, the differences would become greater, and would be _____ as forming two sub...TIn examining the latest deposits, in various quarters of the world, it has everywhere been _____, that some few still existing species are common ...#$Well known by reputation or report.1 Celebrated.2 Prominent.4 Eminent.5Famous.BEES  PQAnother species of Lobelia, which is visited by ____, seeds freely in my garden.JKHumble ____ alone visit red clover, as other ____ cannot reach the nectar.<So necessary are the visits of ____ to many papilionaceous flowers, that their fertility is greatly diminished if these visits be prevented.SI find from experiments that humble-____ are almost indispensable to the fertilisation of the heartsease (Viola tricolor), for other ____ do not v...~... this nectar is much liked by the hive-bee is certain; for I have repeatedly seen, but only in the autumn, many hive-____ sucking the flowers t...The weather had been cold and boisterous and therefore not favourable to ____, nevertheless every female flower which I examined had been effectua...I could give many facts showing how anxious ____ are to save time: for instance, their habit of cutting holes and sucking the nectar at the bases ...I have also found that the visits of ____ are necessary for the fertilisation of some kinds of clover; for instance twenty heads of Dutch clover (...0On the other hand, as the fertility of this clover absolutely depends on ____ visiting the flowers, if humble-____ were to become rare in any coun...... touch with the same brush the anthers of one flower and then the stigma of another; but it must not be supposed that ____ would thus produce a...... of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of ____, the frequency of c... :;An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidæ. )*The honeybees), or family Andrenidæ.!"The solitary bees.) See Honeybee.Called also bee blocks.As, a quilting bee.$A husking bee.$A raising bee..Used for been./abPieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.0 P. p. of Be. JUDGE    5But whether it is true, we can _____ only by seeing how far the hypothesis accords with and explains the general phenomena of nature.<Natural selection will not produce absolute perfection, nor do we always meet, as far as we can _____, with this high standard under nature.Q... structures as the above lamellae of horn or whalebone, habit or use can have done little or nothing, as far as we can _____, towards their dev...[Natural selection will not necessarily lead to absolute perfection; nor, as far as we can _____ by our limited faculties, can absolute perfection ...fIn looking at many small points of difference between species, which, as far as our ignorance permits us to _____, seem quite unimportant, we must...... as of high value, may be wholly due to the laws of variation and correlation, without being, as far as we can _____, of the slightest service ...As far as I am able to _____, after long attending to the subject, the conditions of life appear to act in two ways--directly on the whole organis...Under free nature we have no standard of comparison by which to _____ of the effects of long-continued use or disuse, for we know not the parent-f...The former seems to be much the more important; for nearly similar variations sometimes arise under, as far as we can _____, dissimilar conditions...... florets, which are of service in making the flowers conspicuous to insects, natural selection cannot, as far as we can _____, have come into p...<... better acquainted with the works of agriculturalists than almost any other individual, and who was himself a very good _____ of animals, speak... 34The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament. /0To exercise the functions of a magistrate over.-.To hear and determine, as in causes on trial.BCOne who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness.$%To arrogate judicial authority over."#To determine upon or deliberation. !To examine and pass sentence on.#To form an opinion about.$A connoisseur.$To be censorious toward. DROUGHT    MBut a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the _______, though more properly it should be said to be dependent on th..._... plays an important part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical seasons of extreme cold or _______ seem to be the most...Want of rain or of water.$Want of drink.) Scarcity.* Dryness.* Aridity.+Thirst.-Lack..`aEspecially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants.GIST y gi #$The point on which an action rests.!"The main point, as of a question.The pith of a matter."A resting place. GUIDED      ______ by theoretical considerations, I thought that some interesting results might be obtained in regard to the nature and relations of the speci...C... their lives, would increase in countless numbers; they are known to suffer largely from birds of prey; and hawks are ______ by eyesight to the... 12One who exhibits points of interest to strangers. ()A grooved director for a probe or knife. 45To instruct and influence intellectually or morally.,-To superintend the training or education of.HIA blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.IJOne who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of life. To conduct in a course or path.QRA person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land.!To lead or direct in a way.!STA strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting. EARLY     opFrom passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic animals was at that _____ period attended to.!qrIn the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an _____ and incomplete stage of development.SLord Spencer and others have shown how the cattle of England have increased in weight and in _____ maturity, compared with the stock formerly kept...aAgain, we may suppose that at an _____ period of history, the men of one nation or district required swifter horses, while those of another requir...e... seeds is to make up for much destruction at some period of life; and this period in the great majority of cases is an _____ one.But geology shows us, that from an _____ part of the tertiary period the number of species of shells, and that from the middle part of this same p...The _____ differences would be very slight; but, in the course of time, from the continued selection of swifter horses in the one case, and of str... YAll this clearly shows, as Heer has remarked, that they had at this _____ age progressed considerably in civilisation; and this again implies a lo...a... of long-continued disuse; for as many dung-feeding beetles are generally found with their tarsi lost, this must happen _____ in life; therefor...uThe several parts which are homologous, and which, at an _____ embryonic period, are identical in structure, and which are necessarily exposed to ...... purpose, and with much greater weight; but until some one will sow, during a score of generations, his kidney-beans so _____ that a very large... *+In advance of the usual or appointed time.$Among or near the first.-In good season.-In good season..Prior in time.1 Seasonably.1 Opposed to.4 Betimes.7Soon.9abComing in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc. EASE    67Traquair supposes, of feeding with ____ on the ground.]}... trees, plants inhabiting different stations and fitted for extremely different climates, can often be crossed with ____.6... other hand, closely allied species and varieties of the same species, can usually, but not invariably, be grafted with ____.... plants; for instance, the mid-styled form of Lythrum salicaria was illegitimately fertilised with the greatest ____ by pollen from the longer ...;... to fifty fathoms; from the perfect manner in which specimens are preserved in the oldest tertiary beds; from the ____ with which even a fragme... -.Freedom from anything that pains or troubles.$%As: (a) Relief from labor or effort.CDFreedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.DEFreedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets.:;To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses.)*To give rest, repose, or tranquillity to.&'To release from pressure or restraint.%&To render less painful or oppressive.Said of manner, style. To furnish with accommodations. GUIDED       ______ by theoretical considerations, I thought that some interesting results might be obtained in regard to the nature and relations of the speci...C... their lives, would increase in countless numbers; they are known to suffer largely from birds of prey; and hawks are ______ by eyesight to the... 12One who exhibits points of interest to strangers. ()A grooved director for a probe or knife. 45To instruct and influence intellectually or morally.,-To superintend the training or education of.HIA blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.IJOne who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of life. To conduct in a course or path.QRA person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land.!To lead or direct in a way.!STA strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting. TUFT    <In our poultry, a large ____ of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles.The ____ of hair on the breast of the wild turkey-cock cannot be of any use, and it is doubtful whether it can be ornamental in the eyes of the fe...*+A waving or bending and spreading cluster.CDA collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch.IJA nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities.( A cluster.* A clump.EXAMINE  <He must be a dull man who can _______ the exquisite structure of a comb, so beautifully adapted to its end, without enthusiastic admiration.... being pleased at finding variability in important characters, and that there are not many men who will laboriously _______ internal and import... Muller was thus led carefully to _______ the apparatus in the air-breathing species; and he found it to differ in each in several important points...Therefore a man should _______ for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing...*... been sown or planted I was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could _______ hundreds of acres ...-We should not be able to recognise a species as the parent of another and modified species, if we were to _______ the two ever so closely, unless ...He who will carefully _______ the flowers of orchids for himself will not deny the existence of the above series of gradations--from a mass of pol...+,To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding."#To test by any appropriate method.!To try or test by question."To inquire or search into.$LMTo inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of.1 To explore.ENSUE... variations are accumulated through natural selection, other modifications, often of the most unexpected nature, will _____. ... in numbers in a small tract, epidemics--at least, this seems generally to occur with our game animals--often _____; and here we have a limitin...W... and with the aborigines; and according as the immigrants were capable of varying more or less rapidly, there would _____ in the to or more reg...:;To follow as a consequence or in chronological succession. To follow or come afterward.%To follow and overtake.2 To pursue.2 To result.2 To follow.REEDSh... from the projection of the lower jaw they cannot, during the often recurrent droughts, browse on the twigs of trees, _____, etc. <=A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant.$%Straw prepared for thatching a roof.@AAlso attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.@AIn the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.!"The fourth stomach of a ruminant.A rustic or pastoral pipe.JKA tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.A sley. See Batten.+Rennet./ Same as Rede.MERE ! opThe term species thus comes to be a ____ useless abstraction, implying and assuming a separate act of creation.+{|The term variety, again, in comparison with ____ individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, for convenience sake.zBut the ____ existence of individual variability and of some few well-marked varieties, though necessary as the foundation for the work, helps us ...... ranked by some competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species, and by other competent judges as ____ varieties.... and see what a surprising number of forms have been ranked by one botanist as good species, and by another as ____ varieties.But we have better evidence on this subject than ____ theoretical calculations, namely, the numerous recorded cases of the astonishingly rapid inc... A high degree of variability is obviously favourable, as freely giving the materials for selection to work on; not that ____ individual difference...,|This might have been anticipated, for the ____ fact of many species of the same genus inhabiting any country, shows that there is something in the...3... and practical men can be quoted to show that the sessile and pedunculated oaks are either good and distinct species or ____ varieties.... circumstances, appears in the parent--say, once among several million individuals--and it reappears in the child, the ____ doctrine of chances...... at different seasons and for different purposes, or so beautiful in his eyes, we must, I think, look further than to ____ variability. Only this, and nothing else.!To divide, limit, or bound.#A pool or lake.' A boundary.*Such, and no more.+A mare.0 Unqualified.3 Absolute.4 Unmixed.5Simple.#ENSUE#'*... variations are accumulated through natural selection, other modifications, often of the most unexpected nature, will _____. ... in numbers in a small tract, epidemics--at least, this seems generally to occur with our game animals--often _____; and here we have a limitin...W... and with the aborigines; and according as the immigrants were capable of varying more or less rapidly, there would _____ in the to or more reg...:;To follow as a consequence or in chronological succession. To follow or come afterward.%To follow and overtake.2 To pursue.2 To result.2 To follow.$CLOVERS$ ,rIt has been suggested that moths may fertilise the _______; but I doubt whether they could do so in the case of the red clover, from their weight ...JThe tubes of the corolla of the common red or incarnate _______ (Trifolium pratense and incarnatum) do not on a hasty glance appear to differ in l...45A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium.%ASKS% ( One writer ____, why has not the ostrich acquired the power of flight? But a moment's reflection will show what an enormous supply of food would b...WMivart ____: "Is it conceivable that the young of any animal was ever saved from destruction by accidentally sucking a drop of scarcely nutritious..."rBronn also insists that distinct species never differ from each other in single characters, but in many parts; and he ____, how it always comes th...]... to have been so much struck by the imperfect instincts of the Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and ____, "Must we consider these...The celebrated palaeontologist, Bronn, at the close of his German translation of this work, ____ how, on the principle of natural selection, can a...Lyell ____, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? Bu...Mivart then ____ (and this is his second objection), if natural selection be so potent, and if high browsing be so great an advantage, why has not...#Mivart then ____ how did natural selection remove in the adult kangaroo (and in most other mammals, on the assumption that they are descended from...UMivart, as on so many previous occasions, ____: "What would be the utility of the FIRST RUDIMENTARY BEGINNINGS of such structures, and how could s.../... and if it be said that these bones have been retained "to complete the scheme of nature," why, as Professor Weismann ____, have they not been ... +,To interrogate or inquire of or concerning.'(Said of both the banns and the persons.$%To make inquiry, or seek by request.ABOften with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.#$As, to ask one to an entertainment."#To publish in church for marriage.To put a question to or about. Sometimes followed by after.!To seek to obtain by words.!As, what price do you ask?.&STATES&@G?  4Walsh, a distinguished entomologist of the United ______, has described what he calls Phytophagic varieties and Phytophagic species.<We see this in the recent extension over parts of the United ______ of one species of swallow having caused the decrease of another species.?Livingstone ______ that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans.OWalsh to present in their larval or mature state, or in both ______, slight, though constant differences in colour, size, or in the nature of thei...j}... to the forms that differ by characters never varying on the same tree, and never found connected by intermediate ______.Compare the several floras of Great Britain, of France, or of the United ______, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising number...8... animals, in the two or three castes of sterile females or workers among insects, and in the immature and larval ______ of many of the lower an...^... areas, there is always a good chance that intermediate forms will be discovered which will link together the extreme ______; and these are the...l... a very different vegetation springs up; but it has been observed that ancient Indian ruins in the Southern United ______, which must formerly ...... characters of the most trifling importance; yet we hear from an excellent horticulturist, Downing, that in the United ______ smooth-skinned fr...$... by poor people, and little attention paid to their breeding; for recently in certain parts of Spain and of the United ______ this animal has b... 89The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country.9:A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais. <=A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. &'The principal persons in a government.$%Condition of prosperity or grandeur.$%Wealthy or prosperous circumstances."#Appearance of grandeur or dignity."#A political body, or body politic.EFThe circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time."#To set down in detail or in gross.)ETHER)on fSupposed matter above the air.In which R and R&prime.#The air itself.%WXAre organic radicals which may be of similar or different structure. If R and R&prime.OAny similar compound in which an oxygen atom is bound to two different carbon atoms, each of which is part of an organic radical.A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, once supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat.+DISC+ .12A circular structure either in plants or animals.A flat round plate.   ectifini ectifini ectiecti         0     Py gi     y gi    y gi       y gi                 " mee  mee      !     #'*- 88$ ,8+ .% (on f)on f on f&@G?