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a dummy or jointed manikin of a human body used by artists, especially for arranging drapery on
“Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh, thin light glared through the windows hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic gooseflesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly
shining porcelain of a laboratory”(3). |
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pale, typically because of poor health; feeble or insipid; grey, whitish, drained
“Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh, thin light glared through the windows hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic gooseflesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly
shining porcelain of a laboratory”(3). |
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speaking one’s own thoughts aloud, regardless of any hearers, usually having to do with actors in a play
“Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration”(4). |
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(especially relating to a young person) inexperienced, immature, naïve, green, raw
“A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director’s heels”(4). |
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completely without pride, dignity, or self-respect; in a self-abasing way
“A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director’s heels”(4). |
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with a red, flushed complexion
“He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips”(4). |
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having or showing zeal, eagerness, enthusiasm, keenness, devotion
“ ‘I shall begin at the beginning,’ said the D.H.C. and the more zealous students recorded his intention in their notebooks: Begin at the beginning.”(5). |
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bring a child into existence (referring to the roles of both the man and the woman) by the process of sexual reproduction
“Rams wrapped in *theremogene beget no lambs”(5). |
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the first letter of the Greek alphabet; meaning the first in a series of items
“ …how the fertilized ova went back to the incubators; where the Alphas and *Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the *Gammas, *Deltas, and *Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky’s Process”(6). |
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began to grow extremely rapidly; put forth shoots; put out buds
“Two, four, eight, the buds in their turn budded; and having budded were dosed almost to death with alcohol, consequently burgeoned again and having budded – bud out of bud out of bud – were thereafter – further arrest being generally fatal – left to develop in peace” (7). |
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remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree; abnormal; unnatural
“By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos – a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature”(7). |
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the serous (covered with serum/moisture) membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and covering the abdominal organs.
“Flaps of fresh sow’s peritoneum ready cut to the proper size came shooting up in little lifts in the Organ Store in the sub-basement”(9). |
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