spiculum
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Rossiter in this autumn of 1917 was extremely interested in certain crucial experiments he was making with spiculum in sponge-cells; with scleroblasts, "mason-cells," osteoblasts, and "consciousness" in bone-cells.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
His varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spicula of thought, and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson by John Morley
Introducing the alum-cell, and placing the coating of hoar-frost at the intensely luminous focus of the electric lamp, not a spicula of the dazzling frost is melted.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
We can, for example, converge a powerful luminous beam upon a surface covered with hoar frost, without melting a single spicula of the crystals.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
