Much of it seems vestigially familiar to a traveler in Britain today.
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It's time off work for arcane, often vestigially religious reasons that we choose not to think about too much.
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When El Sistema produced a star in Gustavo Dudamel, now director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he took him firmly under his wing, even standing beside him, small, gaunt and ghostlike in coat and scarf, vestigially conducting while Mr Dudamel did.
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For two separate performances by the saxophonist Anthony Braxton, a venerable musician about as based in jazz per se as Mr. Adams is based in classical music per se (which is to say, vestigially), the houses were full and rapt.
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Additionally, sequences homologous to all tRNAs necessary for translation were present in 16s and 23s rRNAs, and synthetases to load these tRNAs were also found, indicating that many of the functions of transcription and translation present in more modern life exist in rRNA, if vestigially.
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Shi, P., & Zhang, J. (2007). Comparative genomic analysis identifies an evolutionary shift of vomeronasal receptor gene repertoires in the vertebrate transition from water to land. Genome research, 17(2), 166-174. However, with the exception of the archosaur clade, the accessory olfactory system is at least primitively possessed (vestigially) in all higher taxa of tetrapods.
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In literary studies of Gothic fiction, abhuman refers to a "Gothic body" or something that is only vestigially human and possibly in the process of becoming something monstrous, such as a vampirePeter Day, Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil page 22 (Rodopi, 2006). or werewolf.Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray, The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within page 132 (I.B.Tauris, 2006).
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Unlike modern English, but like Old English, Old Saxon is an inflected language, rich in morphological diversity. It kept several distinct cases from Proto-Germanic: the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and (vestigially in the oldest texts) instrumental. Old Saxon also had three grammatical numbers (singular, and dual, and plural) and three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter). The dual forms occurred in the first and second persons only and referred to groups of exactly two.
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In Gothic fiction, ab-human refers to a "Gothic body" or something that is only vestigially human and possibly in the process of becoming something monstrous,Jerrold E. Hogle, The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction page 190 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). such as a vampire,Peter Day, Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil page 22 (Rodopi, 2006). werewolf, or in this case a walking corpse.Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray, The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within page 132 (I.
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The ligne ( ), or line or Paris line, is a historic unit of length used in France and elsewhere prior to the adoption of the metric system in the late 18th century, and used in various sciences after that time. The loi du 19 frimaire an VIII (Law of 10 December 1799) states that one metre is equal to exactly 443.296 French lines. It is vestigially retained today by French and Swiss watchmakers to measure the size of watch movements,. in button making, and in ribbon manufacture.
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There are two blackish dots longitudinally placed in the disc, the inner being vestigially present at the middle and the outer being distinct at two-fifths. There is an angulated whitish line from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornal prominence, edged with dark brown on both sides and on the costa with blackish-brown. There is a fine oblique dark brown line beyond this from the costa to the termen on the upper third and a small blackish spot, mixed with bronzy-metallic lustre, the on termen at the base of the tornal prominence. The hindwings are pale grey, slightly tinged with ochreous.
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