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The phylum Nematomorpha, is a group of invertebrates called horsehair or gordian worms.
Writers look to their quills, while painters care for horsehair and camel with as much care as palette and pigment.
She watched his downcast face, as he rested the fine horsehair of his bow on his knee.
In this new upholstery, the same interlaced webbing was still used, but it supported a group of springs rather than horsehair.
Equally important this season are textures, so there are generous lashings of exotic skins, suedes, leathers and horsehair.
Quality furniture formerly used horsehair stuffing, and this may still be present in some antiques.
The nests are usually constructed of mud mixed with straw, grasses, or horsehair, and cemented to the vertical surfaces of old beams or rafters.
Inlaid furniture, kilim rugs with horsehair tassels, and multicolored lamps with crescent moons complete the decorative program.
A few of them had dyed horsehair forming a mane along the top of their helmet.
All the experiments were carried out on horsehair fibers taken from the tail.
The good news is horsehair worms are internal parasites of insects only and do not harm humans, animals or plants.
No control is necessary for horsehair worms found outside or inside and they should just be ignored.
Once the host enters the water, the horsehair worm breaks through the body wall of the host.
The ordinary fly swatter was originally made of horsehair, now of appropriately ubiquitous plastic.
Most pieces were stuffed with straw or horsehair, then covered with finely woven textiles.
In the French service they wore helmets with horsehair crests but in Saxony they wore the square-topped national cap of Poland called a czapska.
It shows the anterior and posterior ends of a nematomorph worm, horsehair or gordian worm.
Early wigs were made of black horsehair, dressed daily with powder and a scented ointment called pomatum, which had ruinous effects on the wearer's clothes.
To characterize the effect of the sample preparation procedure on the keratin structure, WAXS patterns were recorded for three groups of four horsehair fibers.
Birch or beech wood is used for handles and the wooden grips, and horsehair, white fibre or piassava is used for bristles, depending on what the brush is to be used for.
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He found the man sitting at the door of his hut, making magic with a horsehair and a snakeskin, and some ground-up glass.
To equalize the ground a dabber was used, which was made of cotton-wool under horsehair, the whole inclosed in silk.
Is usually worked with horsehair on the edges to give firmness to the cordonnet.
Vinegar eels, the horsehair worm, the pork worm or trichina and the dread hookworm are examples.
Tension being made on the thread by an assistant, the operator sawed off the pterygium towards the apex by means of the horsehair.
Pour clean water over it and touch-up the paper everywhere with a ball of fine cloth stuffed with horsehair.
The fruit, slit into halves, is placed in hempen or horsehair bags, and submitted to slight pressure in a tincture press.
Nothing like getting a ready-made family while you are at it, horsehair.
Out came Meg, with gray horsehair hanging about her face, a red and black robe, a staff, and cabalistic signs upon her cloak.
The man lay against a pummel padded with saddle blankets matted with stiff horsehair.
Mattresses made of wool, or of wool and horsehair, are much better.
Much as if one nostril was caught up with a horsehair and a little fish-hook.
It was a large, dark room, furnished in a funereal manner with black horsehair, and loaded with heavy dark tables.
They had lank black hair, almost like horsehair, and seemed as they sat to exceed in stature any race of men I have seen.
With this he flew at Alexandrus, caught him by the horsehair plume of his helmet, and began dragging him towards the Achaeans.
Strongly attached to the same beam was what appeared to be an end of a rope of braided horsehair, which had been cut by the bullet in its passage to the knot.
In 1938 the Lord Chancellor's woolsack was found to contain horsehair so it was re-stuffed with wool from all parts of the Commonwealth as a symbol of unity.
One morning the boss suddenly wants to know how many horsehair sofas there are in Brixton, the number of pins that would reach from London Bridge to Waterloo.
Among the many pillows that adorned the venerable couch was one, hard, round, covered with prickly horsehair, and furnished with a knobby button at each end.
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