The pentalocular ovary has numerous ovules in each loculus. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
A triple-coffin is constructed for the occupant of each loculus: a wooden box for the body is fully sealed inside a lead coffin (a plumber usually deals with the metalwork) and then placed inside a larger, decorative coffin. From Wordnik.com. [January « 2009 « Squares of Wheat] Reference
The arcosolium tombs of the catacombs were formed by first excavating in the tufa walls a space similar to an ordinary loculus surmounted by an arch. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The places for tombs were all large "arcosolia", or niches for sarcophagi; there was not a single loculus of the usual cemeterial pattern in the walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Doric, the only sign of ornamentation found inside the tombs; a small break in the south-western wall connects it with the northernmost loculus of No. 2. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
The niche was closed by a marble slab similar to that used to close a loculus, and bearing the original inscription that confirmed the date in the old Martyrology. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The shallow loculus is shown in chamber B, but was apparently only used when sarcophagi were employed, and therefore, so far as we know, only during the Graeco-Roman period, when foreign customs came to be adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The sign by which they were to be recognized was a glass vial sealed up in the plaster outside the loculus that contained the body, and bearing traces of a red substance that had been enclosed and was supposed to have been blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The sign by which they were to be recognized was a glass vial sealed up in the plaster outside of the loculus that contained the body, and bearing traces of a red substance that had been enclosed and was supposed to have been blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
On the ground floor these generally open on the level of the door; when in the upper story, as at C, on a ledge or platform, on which the body might be laid to be anointed, and on which the stones might rest which closed the outer end of each loculus. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
If placed with a spindle on the mouth of a well, a metal tryblion would have been a serviceable loculus seal, ready to handle with its slender rod, because it was also a common weight and measure used at ancient water springs to determine small fluid volumes. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
About the fourteenth week of embryonic life the dental lamina becomes enclosed in a trough or groove of mesodermal tissue, which at first is common to all the dental germs, but subsequently becomes divided by bony septa into loculi, each loculus containing the special dental germ of a deciduous tooth and its corresponding permanent tooth. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 2a. The Mouth] Reference
A devoted husband over the loculus or tomb of his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
D. 384-397), as proved by a second inscription below the loculus. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
LXIII 257; sentiment, and even law protected the slaves 'tomb or loculus) answered the promptings of gentle hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
A metric inscription composed by Damasus and placed above the loculus says to the pilgrim: "Behold: a descent to the crypt has been built: darkness has been expelled: you can behold the memorial of Cornelius and his resting-place. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
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