Ramoth hovered, her wing-span greater than even Mnementh's as she vaned idly. From Wordnik.com. [DragonFlight]
Stolid and utilitarian of design, it was de'scending on four vaned lifting jets. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
Stolid and utilitarian of design, it was descending on four vaned lifting jets. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
The basic design, a triple-vaned rotor atop a vertical shaft, hasn't changed much in 50 years. From Wordnik.com. [Catching The Wind] Reference
Mnementh rumbled approvingly as he vaned his pinions to land lightly on the grass-etched flagstones of Fax's Hold. From Wordnik.com. [DragonFlight]
The crossbar was vaned and changed position with the breeze, moving with minimal changes in wind direction or velocity. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
Feathers or "vaned feathers" cover the exterior of the bird and "down" refers to the softer feathers that grow underneath the exterior feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Ari Solomon: Down With The Truth] Reference
Sometime after ten o'clock the next morning, with Lauren and Alan and Teresa in one rented car, Sam and Robin in the other, they cara vaned to Taos. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Authority]
As yet we really have no idea " and no data " as to just how ubiquitous and vaned life may be in this galaxy; it is conceivable that life as we don't know it can evolve on any sort of a planet ... and nothing in our present knowledge of chemistry rules this out. From Wordnik.com. [The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein]
The solenoid is still there on the standard vaned pulley design. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog Green] Reference
Contour feathers (or vaned feathers) cover the body, wing and tail. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
Pennaceous (vaned) feathers and integumentary filaments are preserved in birds. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Through the water the Nevian commander darted along, steering his course accurately by means of his short, vaned tail. From Wordnik.com. [Triplanetary] Reference
"There seems to be a gap between the vaned area of feathers that are near the hind limbs and the bones of the hind limbs themselves.". From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Within this is a batheing roome, ye walls all wth blew and white marble – the pavement mix'd, one stone white, another black, another of ye Red vaned marble. From Wordnik.com. [Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary] Reference
The horizontal, flat, fish body is not so bad, even supported as it is by four, short, powerful, scaly, flat-footed legs; and terminating as it does in the weird, four-vaned tail. From Wordnik.com. [Triplanetary] Reference
When Sir William Crookes developed a four-vaned radiometer, also known as the light-mill, in 1873, it was believed that this device confirmed the existence of linear momentum carried by photons. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
A number of scientists said the evidence was just degraded collagen, but others insisted that dinosaur's skin had some kind of filament covering, such as hair or feathers, possibly even the robust vaned feathers found in modern bird wings, the kind used for quills. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
That’s the little rubber-vaned pump in the motor’s lower unit that drives cooling water through the engine while it’s running. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Testing Made Easy] Reference
While proportionally small premaxillary teeth are seen elsewhere in theropods (e.g., in tyrannosauroids), the combination of reduced dentition and diastema isn’t, and we know without question that microraptorians had complex, vaned feathers on their limbs and tails. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
And it can never be deftroyed, or vaned, but by a Torrent of tyranny, not to b« ftemmed, by Reafon, J.flice, or Law J. England may, as pro - perly, indiSf and try Men by J.ries in England, for Tafts, committed in Ireland, as bind the Subjeils of Ireland, by Laws, made in Eng - land, without their Confent. From Wordnik.com. [The political constititions of Great-Britain and Ireland, asserted and vindicated; the ...] Reference
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