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... Upholstery Tacks. Tapestry Rugs. Upholstery Looms. Tapestry Carpets, Velvet. ... Plugs, Safety. Stoppers, Rubber. Plugs, Wooden. Plugs, Tube. Plugs, Vent. ...

... by the common sort; with black ribbon and velvet, by others; and a cockade of the same materials, with a pin, in some cases of silver, but usually formed from the shank bone of a deer's leg, ornamented with the person's crest, motto, and ...

... nails, the pig-like nose, the teeth, the velvet coat, the small external ear, the sagacious smell, the sunk, protected eye, all conduce to the utilities or to the safety of its under ground life. It is a ...

... of virility, apt to transcend the limit of safety. For it is highly probable that they contributed to the disappearance of the giant Irish deer. Perhaps antlers have their counterpart in the huge, ...

... DEER'S HORN. Preparation.-Take the horns of the deer (Cervus virginianus) any time from the month of August to December, or from the time they are in velvet (until just before they fall oft), and when ...

... as bone. It is a singular fact about deer, that if they are castrated after their horns are fully grown, that is, after having passed out of the velvet state and become hard, they never shed them ...

... of bone; and, thirdly, the solid horn of deer and antelopes, where the final structure is composed of the bony core alone, the epidermis being represented by the “ velvet,” an external covering which atrophies after the horn ...

... and work- manlike-certainly, next to the patient's safety and com- fort, an object to be desired-we may wrap about the limb two strips of plush or velvet, each three or four inches wide-with the ...

... the Oxen, Sheep, Goats, and Antelopes. In the Deer tribe, on the other hand, the bony portion of the horns is at first covered with a soft bony skin, termed the ‘ velvet,’ and never becomes invested with horn; this skin ...

... obtained if the testes are removed after the velvet has been torn and stripped ... In the female deer astration has no influence on antler forma- tion, ...