(n.) A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.
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Hilly
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.
(a.) Lofty; as, hilly empire.
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(1) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(2) This kind of hilly stage early in the race is the trademark of Prudhomme, who likes to test the race favourites as soon as possible, rather than giving them a more structured few days' run-in to the first key time trial or mountain stage.
(3) The main loser in Orissa would have been the Dongria-Kondh tribe which inhabits the upper reaches of the hilly forest.
(4) A cross-sectional study on malaria was undertaken in May 1989 in the settlements of Kalta and Barsuan iron ore mines situated in a hilly area of Sundargarh district.
(5) Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, and incidence and levels of aflatoxin B1.
(6) Five to look out for Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, Age 34 Last year’s winner and the favourite for the short last-day time trial in London, so rivals need an advantage before then Leopold Konig, NetApp-Endura, 26 Seventh on debut in the Tour de France, the Czech won Caerphilly’s hilly stage in 2012 and may be the strongest climber Sylvain Chavanel, IAM Cycling, 35 The near-veteran Frenchman is in top form, winner in recent weeks of the GP Plouay one-day race and the Tour du Poitou Charentes Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma-QS 29 On the comeback trail after separating a shoulder in his catastrophic crash in the opening stage of the Tour de France Marcel Kittel, Giant-Shimano, 26 Dominant on the flat at the Tour de France this year and last, the German is the strongest fastman in the race on paper with Cavendish recovering
(7) Intestinal type carcinomas tend to be represented more in the older age groups, in males and in subjects born in the Forlì province and resident in hilly and mountainous areas.
(8) On Sundays, some churchgoers practice an adapted version – Chrizonto – while enthusiasts can be spied in music-filled funeral processions winding their way down Jamestown's hilly roads.
(9) Making your way through forests, rivers and hilly terrain in those conditions is no easy task.
(10) The prevalence of chronic undernutrition was significantly higher in the hilly areas.
(11) Two orientation devices are described which are currently in use at the J. Hillis Miller Health Center Library.
(12) Bishrampur in Jharkhand is located in hilly terrain.
(13) With fewer farmers travelling, the cost of farm produce doubled in a matter of weeks, said Umaru Barry, a sharply dressed trader selling smartphones in the capital's hilly streets.
(14) Danish ones are dressed more fashionably, for example, with black cladding and steel balconies, and they have found it easier to build straight blocks rather than L-shaped ones on Norway's hilly terrain.
(15) Highlights: the Crow's Nest, up in the faraway hilly corner of the Park stage where they were serving only tea and cake and the most indie line-up of all time; stupidly wandering the entire site for several hours of Saturday morning hunting Aphex Twin; dancing until my toe went numb.
(16) The young doctor visited Matthews Barnes in London, famous for his theory on the mechanism of placental expulsion, Hegar and his sign of early pregnancy and his dilators, Olshansen and his theory of rotation of the fetal head, Peter Müller in Bern and his maneuver for evaluating the cephalopelvic relationship (known also in the U.S. as Müller-Hillis maneuver), Theodor Langhans, also in Bern, who described three years ago his famous placental cells, Frankenhaüser in Zurich, the man of the plexiform ganglion of the parametrium, discovered before in 1842 by Robert Lee of Scotland.
(17) It began with British detectives on all fours scouring a hilly stretch of scrubland on the Algarve coast.
(18) The transformation of cytoplasmic excrescences, manifested in their diminution, twisting and fusion resulted in the formation of fold-hilly LAM surface.
(19) His friend Hillis Miller moved from Yale to the University of Irvine, California, in 1986, and Derrida switched allegiance at the same time, beginning an annual spring visitthat continued until 2003.
(20) The route skirted the hilly interior, passing close to walled towns like Silves.