What is "rudiments"

Usage examples of "rudiments".

It has even been stated on good authority that rudiments of teeth can be detected in the beaks of certain embryonic birds.

For the workers of Myrruica have not even rudiments of ocelli, though the male and female ants of this genus have well-developed ocelli.

The honorable gifts, bestowed by the chief on his brave companions, have been supposed, by an ingenious writer, to contain the first rudiments of the fiefs, distributed after the conquest of the Roman provinces, by the barbarian lords among their vassals, with a similar duty of homage and military service.

Christianity had raised that nation above the level of African barbarism: ^93 their intercourse with Egypt, and the successors of Constantine, ^94 had communicated the rudiments of the arts and sciences.

Kenny Bayst, according to my slantways look at Nancy's racecard, was riding a horse called Rudiments: number seven, owned by the Duke of Wessex, trained by Miss.

Eric Goldenberg had laid Rudiments the last time it had run because Kenny Bayst had agreed to lose, and then he'd gone and won.

When they swung away round the far bend Rudiments was as far as I was concerned invisible, and until the last hundred yards I didn't see him once.

They came up because of that horse Rudiments which Kenny Bayst rode for Annie Villars, but they aren't down in the racecard as its owners.

Goldenberg know each other, and how they come to have any say in how Rudiments should mn in its various races?

Even if I still can't see what connection Rudiments has with Major Tyderman blowing up one aircraft and crippling another.

Anyway, she has sorted it all out spice didly, I believe, and now that her friend has turned ot to be so extraordinary, with that bomb, I mean, I don expect he will want to advise me about Rudiments an more.

She had thought he meant control of Rudiments, but of course it hadn't been that.

The manoeuvring with Rudiments had come about simply because Tyderman couldn't resist a small swindle on the side, even when he was engaged in a bigger one.

In individual plants of the same species the petals sometimes occur as mere rudiments, and sometimes in a well-developed state.

But I doubt whether any of these cases throw light on the origin of rudimentary organs in a state of nature, further than by showing that rudiments can be produced.