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Glossary

Pterygoid (Diet.), wing-likc. Hence pterygoid aspect, with the lesser dimension in the direction of flight, as in the wing plan-form of a bird.
Sweep (Dict.), proposed by the author in its present usage to denote the cross-sectional area of the stratum of fluid, supposed by hypothesis to be that to whose inertia the supporting reaction is due, § 160.

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