1886, ] Microscopy. 675 
RELEASE, une go the pees | in n shooting, Professor E. S. Morse characterizes 
the various releas ollow 
I. Primary sikik chm and first joint of forefinger pinching the arrow 
ock. 
A Secondary, thumb and second joint of forefinger, middle finger also on 
ing. 
$ IDEA thumb and three fingers on the string. 
4. Mediterranean, fore and middle finger, thumb not used. 
5. Mongolian, thumb on string, with or without thumb-ring. 
RIBAND, te term applied to the stripes painted on arrow-shafts, generally around the 
ar ment, These ribands have been called clan-marks, Owner marks, game 
wa etc. 
ag thumb-ring), 
SELF-Bow (simple), made of a ies piece of wood or other material. 
SHAFT, anc’ ciently an arrow, but s ctly the portion behind the head, and in a fore- 
shafted arrow the lighter Reeth behind the fore or aft, 
Suarr-cnoovEs, arte cuts along an arrow-shaft from the head backward; they 
ave been calle ood. -grooves kii iebnlag reales but these names are ob« 
tae as “SE ink theories. 
SHAFT MENT, the part of an arrow on which the feathering is laid. 
, SHANK, the part of an arrow-head corresponding to the tang of the sword-blade- 
re SHORT-aRRows, those which fall short of the mark. 
f SIDES, of an arrow-head, the sharpened portions between the apex and the base, also 
the edges, 
eo SINEW-BACKED BOW, one whose agg is age by the use of sinew along the 
back, either in a cable of tw the Eskimos, ed laid on solid by 
means of glue, as with ai tribes j in S Wenchi United Sta 
SLEIGHT, the facility with which an archer releases his cue 
STELE (stale, shaft), the wooden part of an arrow, an arrow without feather or head. 
Tarcer, a disk of straw covered with canvas, on which are painted concentric rings, 
used j in archery as a mark in lieu of the ancient butt 
THUMB-RING, a ring worn on the thumb in archery by those peoples that use the 
T Mongolian release ; aia sefin by the Pers 
IP, a term applied to the sharp apex of an baie 
TRajectory, the curve which an arrow describes in space, may be flat, high, &c. 
HIGHT, of a bow, the nu mber of pounds required to draw a bow until the arrow 
y Stand between si pai and the a ascertained by suspending the — 
sts grip and draw with a spring : 
TEA wrapping any yen of a bow or arrow with cord or sinew 
on. 
‘a. 
BARROWS, 1 those shot to the right or the left of the mark. 
ee 2 
ee is made of clear glass with aka surfaces ; ; it is | sea o 
deep to to hold a considerable quantity of fluid, while the curves ; 
Mside are Such that although large sections ‘lie nearly flat, yet 
"Edited by DECO. WHITMAN, Mus. Comparative Zodlogy, zee 
