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Bochart (Hierozoicon ii. 854) notices the Avium Avis Ruch and taking the pulli was followed by lapidation on the part of the parent bird.
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In ventre pulli equi non inuenitur: vnde lac equæ non coagulatur.
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In ventre pulli equi non inuenitur: vnde lac equ� non coagulatur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[170] _De formatione pulli in ovo_, 1757-8; _Sur la formation du coeur dans le poulet_, 1758.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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[169] _De formatione pulli in ovo_, 1673; _De ovo incubato_, 1686.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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You used to say I was the one and only love in all the world for you and her. ubi quid dederam, quasi columbae pulli in ore ambae meo usque eratis, meo de studio studia erant vostra omnia, 210 usque adhaerebatis: quod ego iusseram, quod volueram faciebatis, quod nolebam ac votueram, de industria fugiebatis, neque conari id facere audebatis prius. nunc neque quid velim neque nolim facitis magni, pessumae.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Later others were included, and with the army in the field it became the regular practice to take the auspices from the feeding of the sacred chickens (_pulli_): the best sign being obtained if, in their eagerness to feed, they let fall some of the grain from their beaks (_tripudium solistimum_) -- a result not difficult to secure by previous treatment and a careful selection of the kind of grain supplied to them.
The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914
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His dissertation for the doctorate on the breathing of the embryo of the hen in the egg, "De necessitate æris atmosphærici ad evolutionem pulli in ovo incubato" attracted the attention of the medical world.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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His treatises, De formatione pulli and De ovo incubato (1687), contain the first consistent description of the development of the chick in the fertilised egg.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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_Puli_ in Telegu and Tamil; also _Pedda-pulli_ in Telegu;
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
biocon commented on the word pulli
Plural of pullus.
March 12, 2012