(n.) A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expert view A sneaky, bar-room blow When Alexander Lebedev said he "neutralised" a man by punching him in the face on Russian television, he echoed the dark argot of the KGB, the agency of which he was a member long before spending a slice of his fortune on the Independent and the Evening Standard.
(2) Meanwhile their two sons were trying out their own trash-talking skills in this rather bizarre green screen face off (presumably allowing chroma key footage of dinosaurs and car chases to be added in later): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Though by the time Mayweather had endured that final bout of dad-dancing at the press conference, even the man who lives for showmanship seemed to have lost his appetite for it: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.38am BST Kevin is back All those knockdowns in the last fight were probably rather avoidable, as Kevin is quick to point out in his latest missive: The referee in the junior-feather (super-bantam in our argot) fight between Leo Santa Cruz from LA and the old Venezuelan Alexander Munoz was one Vic Drakulich.
(3) If you "blow up", to use the argot of the City, your anticipated bonus will not be paid, or it will be much reduced.
(4) It relates the battle of Waterloo and its themes of chance and destiny to the sewers through which Valjean wanders after he has left the barricades; and it links the sewers to the underground slang, the argot, which Hugo delights to record in his prose.
(5) It is hard for me with my Vietnam experience to talk with these recent warriors – the argot, the slang, of war has changed .
(6) But the Mills and Boon argot took on a decidedly less courtly colour overnight, as speculation mounted about the possibility that Clegg might spurn the Tories after all (see – it's hard not to) and return to Labour's close embrace (sorry).
(7) The quickest and most dramatic way to achieve this was by taking an over-familiar garment and, in the argot of the age, "subverting" it.
(8) And, in the dismal argot of the modern British bureaucrat, he has a transferable skill-set which has been put to good use in a rural community.
(9) When Alexander Lebedev said he "neutralised" a man by punching him in the face on Russian television, he echoed the dark argot of the KGB, the agency of which he was a member long before spending a slice of his fortune on the Independent and the Evening Standard.
(10) In the technical argot of economics, this is known as counting your chickens before they are hatched.
(11) Everyone makes a dull record occasionally.” As the 80s went on, so Smash Hits became bolder, eventually inventing its own argot, affectionately mocking the hyperbolic language of pop.
(12) In the dismal argot of the American high street, Salmond has made the SNP the go-to party for Scots on the democratic left.
(13) In the argot of the beat, the figures were "cuffed, skewed, nodded and stitched".
(14) If we appear more critical of the government than of the opposition, it is only because we believe that - excuse cricketing argot - there is no point in bowling to the fielding side.
(15) MK possesses its own argot: suburbs are “gridsquares”, cycle paths are “redways”, vertical and horizontal roads are known as V8 or H3, and the centre is CMK.
(16) "Most people will say it can't be fair for people who have no right to be here in the UK to continue to exist as everybody else does," May said last week, and that was that: to use the argot of the last Tory campaign Crosby masterminded, she's thinking what they're thinking, which is all that matters.
(17) Nothing escapes Hugo's omnivorous collage, not the argot of the criminal underworld, nor songs in dialect, nor the scraps of paper scribbled with revolutionary notes which Hugo loves quoting - incomprehensible fragments, like imported nonsense poems.
Ergot
Definition:
(n.) A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
(n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.
(n.) A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.
(n.) See 2d Calcar, 3 (b).
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the ergot drugs were more active in displacing 3H-haloperidol than 3H-dopamine from striatal membranes.
(2) We tested affinities of newly synthesized ergot derivatives to alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptors, D1- and D2-dopamine receptors, muscarinic acetylcholinoceptors and beta-adrenoceptors using radioligand binding techniques.
(3) The main drugs with specific action on migraine include ergot alkaloids (ergotamine, dihydroergotamine), agonists (sumatriptan) or partial agonists (methysergide) at a specific subtype of 5-HT1-like receptors, beta-adrenoceptor antagonists (propranolol, metoprolol), calcium antagonists (flunarizine) and anti-inflammatory agents (indomethacin).
(4) Eleven women with secondary amenorrhoea and hyperprolactinaemia were treated with lisuride, a new semisynthetic ergot derivative.
(5) The high risk of postabortal complications owing to the defects of the myometrium necessitated the administration of weak uterine drugs, such as ergotal.
(6) This experience suggests that bromocriptine, a derivative of ergot alkaloids, can cause coronary arterial spasm, and subsequent myocardial infarction.
(7) Chromosome examination was made from 12 healthy adult male volunteers by using human lymphocyte cultures twice before, and 8 and 12 weeks after continuous intake of 3 X 1.5 mg Hydergine, an ergot derivative, per day orally.
(8) Effects of ergot alkaloids, nicergoline (NIC), on survival rate, brain water content, local cerebral blood flow (LCBF: 14C-iodoantipyrine) and glucose utilization (LCGU: 14C-2-deoxyglucose) were examined after bilateral carotid artery occlusion (BCAO) in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
(9) Postsynaptic and DA "autoreceptor" agonists [apomorphine, (-) 3-PPP], as well as dopaminergic ergot derivatives (bromocriptine, lergotrile, lisuride) and Sch 23390, substituted for Ly 171555, a partial ergoline which has behavioral effects that are blocked by haloperidol and molindone, but not by either Sch 23390 or serotonin (5-HT) antagonists (ketanserin, pizotifen).
(10) Although the ergot alkaloids (ergots) are useful drugs for the acute treatment of migraine headaches, their mechanism of action remains obscure.
(11) The effect of two recently synthetized dihydrogenated ergot peptide alkaloids has been investigated on the rabbit uterus in situ.
(12) Eleven patients with prolactin-producing pituitary adenomas were treated with the new non-ergot, long-acting dopamine agonist, CV 205-502, for a period of 2-18 months (mean 11 months).
(13) Monoaminergic neuronal systems have been implicated in the mechanisms of action of most ergot derivatives (including those that are clinically useful and those that are "hallucinogenic").
(14) No case of ergotism with such a localization has been previously described in the literature.
(15) This observation and 63 others cases in the litterature call attention to the potential dangers of the ergot derivatives (ergotamine tartrate), even at normally accepted therapeutic doses.
(16) In humans as in animals and in in vitro studies, inhibition of prolactin and LH release induced by ergot drugs are likely due to both an indirect effect via the hypothalamus and to a direct effect on the pituitary cells.
(17) In conclusion, buflomedil is as effective or more effective than dihydrogenated ergot alkaloids in the treatment of senile dementia associated with cerebrovascular insufficiency and could prove a valuable addition to long-term therapy if further studies support the trend shown in this study.
(18) The ergot alkaloids but not BC-105 also exhibited considerable stimulating activity.
(19) If Scammony does contain ergot alkaloids, it is suggested that it will be an excellent source for this material, since the plants cultivation is inexpensive and easy.
(20) Various ergot alkaloids and derivatives were investigated for their interaction with dopaminergic receptors at the level of the rat corpus striatum and nucleus accumbens.