cymba

AKshully, I alwaes thot Lolspeek was simbol..cymba…jus stood for teh fakt that cats dont give a chood-up ratzass about rools.

I QUESTION THE GENERAL - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

The narrow-curved depression between the helix and the antihelix is called the scapha; the antihelix describes a curve around a deep, capacious cavity, the concha, which is partially divided into two parts by the crus or commencement of the helix; the upper part is termed the cymba conchæ, the lower part the cavum conchæ.

X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear 1918

These words become in Latin, cymba, and cymbalum; and I think you will find it entirely convenient and advantageous to call the leaf-stalk distinctively the 'cymba,' retaining the mingled idea of cup and boat, with respect at least to the part of it that holds the bud; and understanding that it gathers itself into a V-shaped, or even narrowly vertical, section, as a boat narrows to its bow, for strength to sustain the leaf.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

The "subvectat corpora" will serve to remind you of the office of the leafy cymba in carrying the bud; and make you thankful that the said leafy vase is not of iron; and is a ship of Life instead of Death.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

Already, not once, nor twice, I have had to use the word 'stem,' of the main round branch from which both stalk and cymba spring.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

The 'stem,' you are to say, then, when you mean the _advancing_ shoot, -- which lengthens annually, while a stalk ends every year in a blossom, and a cymba in a leaf.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

A stem is essentially round, [37] square, or regularly polygonal; though, as a cymba may become exceptionally round, a stem may become exceptionally flat, or even mimic the shape of a leaf.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

Miguel de Cifuentes, till the text, in the language of bibliographers, looks like "cymba in oceano."

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

Graft Sources Graft sources:  Septum (bony / cartilaginous) o Conchal cartilage o Osteochondral rib grafts o Calvarial bone o Intrinsic contours of specific conchal  elements well-suited for reconstruction of nasal structure: Concha cymba -- columellar strut o Concha cavum -- tip grafts, LLCs o Bowl sidewall -- alar replacement, o batten grafts, ULC replacements  Cartilage grafts must be placed on a well-vascularized bed to ensure viability.

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a copy of this exquisitely printed book; the text of which, surrounded by such an amplitude of margin, in the language of Ernesti [see his Critique on Havercamp's Sallust] "natut velut cymba in oceano."

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811