"Seed vessel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... architecture the lotus is a fundamental form, and indeed it is said to be the main motive of the architecture of that civilization. The capitals of the column are modelled after one form or other of this plant. That of the Doric column is the seed vessel pressed flat. Earlier capitals are simple copies of the bell or seed vessel. The columns consisted of stalks of the plant grouped together. In other cases the leaves are used as ornaments. These orders were copied by the Greeks, ...
— The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races - An Interpretation • Sanger Brown, II
... n. an aboriginal word, Kamilaroi Dialect of New South Wales. [W. Ridley, 'Kamilaroi,' p. 25, derives it from Kulu, seed, but it is just as likely from Kolle, water.—J. Mathew.] A hollowed knot of a tree, used as a seed vessel, or for holding water. The word is applied to the excrescence on the tree as well as to the vessel; a bush hand has been heard to speak of ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... poisonous nature." Of another plant, producing a similar substance, I received the following information from Mr. Campbell, in a letter dated in November, 1803: "You may remember a trailing plant with a small yellowish flower and a seed vessel of an oblong form, containing one seed; the whole plant resembling much the caout-chouc. To this, finding it wholly nondescript, I have taken the liberty to attach your name. It has no relationship to a genus yielding a similar ...
— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden
... ingenious toys which our mothers and sisters improvised in order to amuse us? We took a walk into the country, and our eldest sister or our mother picked a wild poppy, turned its red petals back and encircled them with a thread, and stuck a sprig of grass into the seed vessel to represent a headdress of feathers. Here was a fresh and pretty doll (Fig. 1). Another day it was the season of lilacs. The children gathered branches by the armful, and from these the mother picked off ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 • Various
... intellect and reason first as self existent, 614-u. Egyptians recognized more than one Triad, 548-l. Egyptians recognized as gods the stars of the Zodiac, 458-l. Egyptians regarded the Universe as a great Deity composed of a. number of Gods, 459-u. Egyptians, seed vessel of the lotus a sacred symbol to the, 9-u. Egyptians taught reverence for One Supreme God 1,500 years before Moses, 364-l. Egyptians the tutors of the Greeks in religious dogma, 617-u. Egyptians worshipped fire, the river Nile and other elements, 459-u. Eight stars of the Gnostic ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike |
