(n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(2) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(3) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
(4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(5) An arrow poison prepared by traditional methods from Acokanthera schimperi in the Maasai plains of Kenya was shown to contain acolongifloroside K as its major active principle, as well as smaller amounts of ouabain and acovenoside A.
(6) Added meaning was given to the design copy task through the use of stimulus figures that were representational of familiar objects--an arrow, a house, and a face.
(7) In Experiment 1, arrow cues were located centrally, near the fixation point.
(8) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
(9) Six edentulous patients were each provided with two complete dentures and the relation of the jaws to each other was determined by means of both the conventional checkbite and a combined Gerber arrow-angle registration.
(10) Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable, following the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by a European hunter with a bow and arrow.
(11) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
(12) Here, then, is Draghinomics' second arrow: to reduce the drag on growth from fiscal consolidation while maintaining lower deficits and greater debt sustainability.
(13) To help distinguish between these competing interpretations, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded to lateralized flashes delivered to visual field locations precued by a central arrow (valid stimuli) or not precued (invalid stimuli).
(14) Of these devices, the most widely used external central venous catheters include: the Davol (Hickman, Broviac, Leonard catheters, Arrow-Howes multi-lumen catheters, and the Groshong that requires no heparinization.
(15) This study examined the relationships between postural sway, aiming time, the cardiac cycle time and the placement of the first finger movement within the electrocardiac cycle, with the quality of the arrow shot.
(16) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
(17) With an exquisite “no look” pass, Fuchs delivered the ball Vardy arrowed beyond David de Gea to score for the 11th successive Premier League match .
(18) Two commercially available immunofluorescence monoclonal antibody (MAB) reagents (Bartels, Baxter Healthcare, Issaquah, WA; and Symex, Broken Arrow, OK) were evaluated as a means for detecting parainfluenza virus (PIV) both in shell-vial cultures and directly in clinical specimens.
(19) In the color condition the respective stimuli were a pair of solid red circles, four white paired-arrows, and a pair of white plus and minus signs.
(20) The design of the tube was the only factor found to be a significant determinant of the extrusion of the tube, although the experience of the surgeon affected the extrusion rate of the Arrow tube.
Tiller
Definition:
(v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
(n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
(n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
(n.) A young timber tree.
(v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
(n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
(n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
(n.) The handle of anything.
(n.) A small drawer; a till.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) But he will not be attending conference every day, and will have his hands firmly off the tiller as far as editorial matters are concerned.
(3) The effects of fescue endophyte content (low, 16 or high, 44% of tillers examined) and of N fertilization rate (low, 134 kg N.ha-1.yr-1 or high, 336 kg N.ha-1.yr-1) upon serum prolactin (PRL) in Angus steers were examined.
(4) In the dental hospital Münster 25 adhesive bridges have been incorporated for the last two years by the Silicoater method, which has been developed by Kulzer with the assistance of Musil and Tiller.
(5) This allows a very Blakean moment: he discovered a photograph of the Tiller Girls doing a horse routine with hooves on their hands.
(6) Those concerns were heightened last year when the deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, said he and Johnson "have our hands on the tiller" of the Met and had taken control of the force away from the home office.
(7) The cohort of viscose rayon workers previously described by Tiller et al has been reconstructed and followed up to the end of 1982.
(8) To correct his trajectory now, in the year before a general election, he will need to grab hold of that tiller and yank it so hard to the right he will send flying the sunbathers on the deck of his dangerously left-leaning ship.
(9) Dipper samples were taken from rice fields at six phases of maturity (fallow, ploughed, nursery, newly transplanted, after tillering, mature).
(10) That, I believe, is a far more positive and practical Scottish contribution to progressive policy than sending a tribute of Labour MPs to Westminster to have the occasional turn at the Westminster tiller – particularly in the circumstances ofas the opposition's policy increasingly converging with that of the coalition on the key issues of the economy and public spending.
(11) Talking about the first attempt on Tiller’s life, before Roeder, he laughingly refers to perpetrator Shelley Shannon as a terrible shot, because she shot him in both arms, when presumably aiming for his chest.
(12) Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches.
(13) The squad of players available to Hughton clearly had the talent to make an immediate return but the Championship needs a steady hand at the tiller.
(14) And maybe we should borrow a tiller at this point or buy one?
(15) Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Identify our own weak spots: While it is true that many external factors have made delivering humanitarian aid more difficult, we also have a responsibility to look more closely at ourselves.
(16) Tillers of C. dactylon and E. indica from the three sites were subjected to a series concentrations of Pb(NO3)2.
(17) They tried everything they could to put George Tiller out of business,” Curtis says.
(18) Panel Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Sandrine’s expertise is in the politicisation of aid and the current state of the aid system.
(19) Here’s a press baron who doesn’t interfere; who maintains a careful distance; who doesn’t want tea in Downing Street; who goes outside the UK and outside the media when he has to make crucial appointments: a steadying hand on a tiller far away.
(20) Tiller’s Wichita clinic, one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, was for years one of the most prominent battlegrounds over abortion.