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Diameter about twice the height; neck concave, often strengthened with a lashing of mesquite bark; lip gently everted; principal design inside; outside design usually mere lines, stripes, rows of dots.

From Mohave Pottery by Harner, Michaell J.

The whole limb is usually everted to a greater or less degree, and is slightly abducted.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Curving sides, terminating at heavy, raised, rounded band surmounted by concave, everted rim.

From North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century by Watkins, C. Malcolm

It is a powerful muscular organ, of great size in proportion to the animal, capable of complete retraction within the carapace, and of being everted wholly, or partially, at will.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.

The mouth is anterior and slightly ventral; it leads into a protrusible pharynx armed with recurved teeth that can be everted.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various