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Hornpipe
An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales consisting of a wooden pipe with holes at intervals It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn...
caecum
A cavity open at one end as the blind end of a canal or duct...
Padlock
A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened the other end being fastened by the bolt used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain etc...
Caddice
The larva of a caddice fly These larvaelig generally live in cylindrical cases open at each end and covered externally with pieces of broken shells gravel bits of wood etc They are a favorite bait with anglers Called also caddice worm or caddis worm...
VerbarScaphopoda
A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing and many long slender prehensile oral tentacles It includes Dentalium or the tooth shells and other similar shells Called also Prosopocephala and Solenoconcha...
Resonator
Anything which resounds specifically a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds...
Neuropore
An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal...
Biforine
An oval sac or cell found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceaelig It has an opening at each end through which raphides generated inside are discharged...
Foot valve
A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe esp such a valve in a steam engine condenser opening to the air pump...
From, 'To'
From, 'To', when a period is delimited by statute or rule, which has both a beginning and an end and the word 'from' is used indicating the beginning, the opening days is to be excluded and if the last day is to be excluded the word 'to' is to be used. In order to exclude the first day of the period, the crucial thing to be noted is whether the period of limitation is delimited by a series of days or by any fixed period. This is intended to obviate the difficulties or inconvenience they may be caused to some parties. For instance, if a policy of insurance has to be good for one day from the 1st January, it might be valid only for a few hours after its execution and the party or the beneficiary in the insurance policy would not get reasonable time to lay claim, unless the 1st January is excluded from the period of computation, Tarun Prasad Chatterjee v. Dinanath Sharma, (2000) 8 SCC 649: AIR 2001 SC 36 (39). [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 9]...
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