(n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
(n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
(n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
(n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
(n.) A bit for a horse.
(n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
(n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
(n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
(v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of.
(v. t.) To clip; to mow.
(v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
(n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
(n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
(n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, in vitro treatment of mouse bone marrow with antisera prepared in rabbits against brain tissue from rats (BARB) or hamsters (RAHB) also reduced the CFU content of the mouse marrow.
(2) "So, welcome to the real North Korea" declared Sweeney dramatically, standing inside a barbed wire fence apparently built to keep ordinary people away from his tour group's hotel.
(3) An analysis of BBC1, compiled using Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) figures, of the hours between 6pm and 10pm from 15 January, when the first episode of Call the Midwife was screened, to 5 February, showed that 90% of the audience was over 35, meaning just 719,000 under-35s were watching.
(4) Beneath the gold-leafed dome, one of them read aloud from a text eulogising France's founding fathers, ending with a rousing, "Long live the France of our fathers, long live La Barbe!"
(5) Kinetics of elongation and depolymerization from the pointed end were measured in fluorescence assays using pyrenylactin filaments capped at the barbed end by villin.
(6) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
(7) The ad, for web hosting service CrazyDomains.co.uk, featured the Barb Wire star in a boardroom full of men.
(8) Epidermal cells that would otherwise produce only alpha keratin in reticulate scales are induced to reorganize and differentiate into barb ridge cells that accumulate feather beta keratins.
(9) She said no surprises about the election date should mean "no excuses", a clear barb at the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, whom she has criticised as announcing "platitudes not policies" and giving few costings for his promises.
(10) Seventy-seven flexor tendon lesions in zone I have been reinserted by the "rope down" technique using the Jennings barb-wire.
(11) As a result, at high rates of filament growth a transient cap of ATP-actin subunits exists at the ends of elongating filaments, and at steady state a stabilizing cap of ADP.Pi-actin subunits exists at the barbed ends of filaments.
(12) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
(13) All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated.
(14) Dissociation of the gelsolin-actin complex from the barbed ends can be calculated to be rather slow.
(15) It’s like you go through some crazy inter-dimensional vortex,” Barbe said.
(16) There were some security forces as well, I think employed by the Australians, waiting around outside, and they had coils of barbed wire at the ready.
(17) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
(18) Aginactin is a barbed-end capping protein by several criteria.
(19) And he trades barbs and disapproving glares with Scarlett Johansson 's Black Widow, who you will want to see in her own movie after this.
(20) The simplest explanation for these findings is that gelsolin caps the barbed ends of the filaments in the resting platelet.
Cilice
Definition:
(n.) A kind of haircloth undergarment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Murray meets the Croatian Maric Cilic in the semi-final on Thursday and, in all probability, Roger Federer in the final on Sunday.
(2) Andy Murray , playing his worst match here in several years, followed the world No1 Rafael Nadal out of Wimbledon on Wednesday in three sets that detained young Grigor Dimitrov barely two hours on Centre Court while on an adjacent battlefield the favourite Novak Djokovic needed all five sets to get rid of the No26 seed Marin Cilic.
(3) Cilic will miss the Australian Open while serving out the latter stages of his ban.
(4) Marin Cilic puts in a request for a heart, orders a bucket of guts and proceeds to check his skill-set.
(5) After playing his opening match on an outside court, Cilic took his US Open title defence back to Arthur Ashe Stadium and looked right at home, storming into the third round with a 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 win over Russian qualifier Evgeny Donskoy.
(6) He’s getting more experience now playing on the big stage, which definitely is useful when you play in the big tournaments like this.” Cilic’s disappointment at losing was tempered by the knowledge of how far he has come in a year, 12 months after being told during Wimbledon that he had failed a drugs test.
(7) 2.47pm BST Slowly but surely, Marin Cilic is finding his game .
(8) This court is very special for me, brings back special memories,” the ninth seeded Cilic said.
(9) That next challenge is Marin Cilic in the quarter-final, as was also the case last year.
(10) That’s what helped me.” The 6ft 6in Cilic, under the guidance of his new coach, the former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic, has added more weight to his serve and generally become more aggressive.
(11) Nishikori, who lost to Marin Cilic in last year’s final, reached the Montreal semi-finals against Andy Murray this month but withdrew from the recent Cincinnati tournament and seems returned to the frailty that dogged him last year.
(12) 1.43pm BST Marin Cilic remains one of the great nearly men of men's tennis, a former top-10 contender, complete with a thunderbolt serve and a powerful net game.
(13) Cilic, fine player though he has been, is no Sharapova in terms of profile or commercial reach.
(14) Following the BMW Open, Cilic was knocked out of the French Open in the third round by Viktor Troicki, who coincidentally was banned in July for 18 months for failing to provide a blood sample at the Monte Carlo Masters in April.
(15) Updated at 3.12pm BST 3.02pm BST At the start of the third, Marin Cilic spies his chance , bouncing to a 0-30 lead against the Djokovic serve.
(16) shouts Marin Cilic as he slides an ace up the centre to move ahead 4-1 with the break.
(17) On Wednesday the Serb produced another example of how dangerous he is when behind as he recovered from two sets to one down to beat Marin Cilic and keep his hopes of winning a second Wimbledon title alive.
(18) Sharapova is likely to escape with punishment similar to that imposed on Marin Cilic , who also pleaded ignorance when caught out in 2013, and was back on court within four months.
(19) A statement from the ITF read: "Mr Cilic ingested the nikethamide inadvertently as a result of taking the Coramine glucose tablets, and did not intend to enhance his performance in doing so, and he therefore met the preconditions which entitle him to a reduction of the Period of Ineligibility for Specified Substance based on an assessment of his fault.
(20) Cilic had a chance to force a decider with a set point in the 10th game but Kyrgios held firm and served out the match with an ace in the tie-break after 85 minutes.