(n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Example Sentences:
(1) A morphometric study has been made of the alpha-sector (Giolli and Creel 1973) of the guinea pig's dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) in Nissl preparations.
(2) Creel, Witkop, and King have used evoked potential methods to show that such a pathway defect likely occurs in the human albino.
(3) Anatomical studies of the Creel albino cat have demonstrated a pronounced atrophy of cells in the medial superior olive, a structure thought to be important for the detection of interaural time differences (ITDs).
Osier
Definition:
(n.) A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
(n.) One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
(a.) Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The paper presents the results of a 10-year study on waste water purification in forest soil, under conditions of lysimeters and in the field, using pine-, larch- and osier cultures.