But in some genera the larvæ become developed either into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, or into what I have called complemental males: and in the latter, the development has assuredly been retrograde; for the male is.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

Also in Stop Smiling, Nicolas Rapold on the new edition of Don't Look Back, which includes Bob Dylan 65 Revisited, "a kind of complemental alternate take.".    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 2/20.] Reference

This extra amount is called complemental air.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

He blended the complemental conceptions of divinity and humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

I make the greatest Gallant I meet give me the Wall, as if I were a Person of Quality; And when any comes hither they are won by my complemental and genteel Discourse; my comely presence brings in many a Guest into the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women] Reference

"The complemental dot on his i of a commonly civilized human creature!" said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Still less is it acted upon for the good of the complemental being alluded to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference

The two expressions, song and action, were one; they were mutually complemental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

On the males and complemental males of certain Cirripedes, and on rudimentary structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference

Perhaps they were really mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

The above are named: (1) The tidal air; (2) complemental air; (3) supplemental air; (4) residual air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference

It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Constitution] Reference

Hence to the page (p. 77) on which was summarised the determinist view of Town and School, we now require the complemental statement upon page (p. 87) of Cloister and City proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics: as Applied Sociology] Reference

While of the contrasted yet complemental civic life of fullest, broadest action, what expression like the Roman eagle -- the very eyes of keenness, and the spreading wings of power?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics: as Applied Sociology] Reference

It is a well-known optical fact that the color of shadow is complemental to that of light: and that therefore, in general terms, warm light has cool shadow, and cool light hot shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

Fortune; and it is an error worse than heresie, to adore these complemental and circumstantial pieces of felicity, and undervalue those perfections and essential points of happiness wherein we resemble our Maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religio Medici] Reference

complemental Accident Insurance Policy, U.S. Patent No. 389,818 (issued Sept. 18, 1888) (claiming a "complemental insurance policy" as an apparatus consisting of two separate cards secured together); Insurance System, U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Groklaw] Reference

This pragmatist doctrine, exhibiting our ideas as complemental factors of reality, throws open (since our ideas are instigators of our action) a wide window upon human action, as well as a wide license to originality in thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

In this third Paragraph he is at a deal of complemental Pains with our Neighbours, to get leave of them for his fuppofal of a treacherous Invafion: Or elfe he has no pre - tence for a Standing Army, to help them to be true to their word.    From Wordnik.com.  [A confutation of a late pamphlet intituled A letter ballancing the necessity of keeping a land force in time of peace with the dangers that may follow on it] Reference

It is when we consider the reproductive organs themselves and their forms of activity, and such parts of the organism modified directly in relation to them, that a real and important difference is found to exist, radical though absolutely complemental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman and Labour] Reference

These egg-cells are usually, with elaborate sureness and precise mechanism after liberation from the ovary, fertilised by (that is to say, fused with) the complemental reproductive cells -- the sperm-filaments -- produced by other individuals, the males.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

Those who see a sort of complemental relation to each other of linguistic affinity and the conformity in physical characters may infer from "Mikey-doo-rook" (a term of endearment equivalent to "Mavourneen" and used in addressing little children) that the inhabitants within the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants] Reference

In 1874, Alvaro Francisco Carlos Reynoso of France files a U.S. patent for an "elixir" containing fluoride of potassium, sodium, or ammonium, as "invigorating, nutritious, and complemental to food ... for infants at the period when the bones and teeth are in process of formation.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"No; the response must be in kind, to be truly complemental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaint Courtships] Reference

Are we complemental to each other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Home] Reference

It is not a complemental condescendence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

Appendages in insects complemental to.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

"a kind of complemental alternate take.".    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

complemental males compared with plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

"great" in his code should have been "gage," and its complemental words "of battle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Whirligigs] Reference

Air, 48 complemental, 70 quantity of, in lungs, 70 residual, 70 supplemental, 70 tidal, 70.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference