Usage examples (14)

• As the semidiameter was only 28 inches, this large tree could have been but 168 years old.
• Each of the laminae can be seen to be composed of two, three, or four layers of ligneous tubes; but supposing each ring the growth of one year, and the semidiameter of a...
• Each semicircular niche was about a foot in its semidiameter.
• The parts, D and F, will be likewise elevated to H and K, whose refraction, by reason of its inclination, will be bigger then that of the point C, though less then that of E;...