Reticular i a (retikularia)

[NL. (Bulliard, 1791), retiercé Romans, in Auvergne in France in the middle ages, and elsewhere. Also known as opus reticula tum. See also cut under opus. reticulately (re-tik'ū-lat-li), adv. So as to form a network or reticulation. Generally the sporangium contains, besides the spores, a structure called the Capillitium, consisting sometimes of small thin-walled tubes anastomosing reticulately . Sachs , Botany (trans.), p. 275. its name from the genus Reticular i a. reticular i an (re-tik-u-lā'ri-an), a. and n. [ II. n. A member of the Reticular i a ; a foraminifer. reticularly (re-tik'ū-lär-li), adv. So as to be reticulate; in a reticular manner. The outer surface of the chorion is reticularly ridged. Owen, Anat. reticulary (re-tik'ū-lā-ri), a. [NL. reticular is: see reticular.] Same as reticular. The Rhine, of a vile, reddish-drab color, and all cut into a reticulary work of branches, was far from beautiful about Rotter dam. Carlyle , in Froude (Life in London, xx.). reticulate (re-tik'u-lāt), v.; pret. and pp. re ticulated, ppr. reticulating. [ II. in trans. In zoöl ., to cro irregularly so as to form meshes like those of anet: as, lines which reticulate on a surface. reticulated (rē-tik'ū-lā-ted), p. a. [ IMG:content-2115.jpg:[blocks in formation] culation = It. reticulazione; reticulate + -ion.] 1. The character of being reticulated or netlike; that which is reticulated; a network, or an arrangement of veins, etc., resembling one. It is curious to observe the minute reticulations of tyranny which he had begun already to spin about a whole people, while cold, venomous, and patient he watched his victims from the centre of his web. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 279. The Rhizomata [of Calamites undulatus ). are beautifully covered with a cellular reticulation on the thin bark, and show occasional round arcoles marking the points of exit of the rootlets. Dawson, Geol. Hist. Plants, p. 168. 2. In ornith., one of the plates or small scales the a emblage of which makes the tarsus of a bird reticulate; also, the whole set of such plates, and the state of being reticulate: distinguished from scutellation and lamination. The individual reticulations may be quite regularly six-sided, like the cells of honeycomb, or of various other figures. Reticulation of the sides and back of the tarsus often concurs with scutellation on the front. The impre ed lines may be mere creases in uniformly soft integument, somewhat like those of the human palm, or they may separate hard, roughened, or granulated reticulations. It is most characteristic of the feet of wading and swimming birds to show reticulation, and of those of land-birds to be scutellate or laminate, or both. 3. A method of copying a painting or drawing by the help of threads stretched acro a frame so as to form squares, an equal number of proportional squares being made on the canvas or paper on which the copy is to be made. reticule (ret'i-kūl), n. [F. réticule, a net for the hair, a reticule, There were five loads of straw, but then of those a lady could take no more than her reticule could carry. De Quincey , Spanish Nun. Dear Muse, 'tis twenty years or more Since that enchanted, fairy time When you came tapping at my door, Your reticule stuffed full of rhyme. T. B. Aldrich, At Two score. 2. An attachment to a telescope, consisting of a network of lines ruled on gla or of fine fibers cro ing each other. These may form squares as in the reticulated micrometer, or they may be arranged meridionally, except two at right angles or perhaps one nearly at right angles, or otherwise. Also reticle. 3. Same as reticulum, 1.