The starvated individuals lose body weight; their body weight reduced to less than half the initiat weight.

[…] Vegetables spring up from their Mother Earth; and we can no more discern their accretive Motion, then we can their most hidden cause.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:effuscation.

Ho Lung’s troops have in the mean- time arrived at Paokang and Fanghsien in the north-western section of Hupeh, while the other column has captured Tanghsien and Chenping in Honan, according to the reports received at Hankow.