Within the normal reproductive cycle, haploidisation is one of the major functional consequences of meiosis.

THE PULL-THROUGH is used for a crooked shuffle to keep the cards stacked.

… shift for themselves, and seek out new habitations; such castlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (most of the Oriental Islands being formerly inhabited by by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.

Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.