cessile

• God's air, the Allfather's air, scintillant circumambient cessile air. —  Ulysses
• 18 So silent is the cessile air, —  Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
• Same with that called the balsam fir of Canada. it grows here to considerable Size, being from 21/2 to 4 feet in diameeter and rises to the hight of 100 or 120 feet. it's Stem is Simple branching assending and proliferous -. it's leaves are cessile, acerose, 1/8 of an inch in length and 1/16 of an inch in width, thickly scattered on all Sides of the twigs as far as the groth of four proceeding years, and respects the three undersides only, the upper Side being neglected and the under —  The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
• Simple and erect. its leaves are cauline, and Spredding. the leafits are jointed & oppositly poinnate 3 par and termonateing in one, cessile widest at the base and tapering to an accuminated point, an inch and —  The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
• From far up stream, where the grey mass of the Cathedral blocked the vale, a faint tapping sound reached them, borne on 'the cessile air.' —  Brother Copas

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