(v. t.) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
(v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep.
(v. t.) To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The World Bank seems to want to solve the problem by changing its label on business as usual to sound climate-friendly Elizabeth Bast, OCI OCI considers “fossil fuel” lending to include oil, gas, and coal projects, as well as policy loans, transmission and distribution, and financial intermediaries that have been found to be directly linked to or to support oil, gas or coal development.
(2) They said that, at the network’s most recent meeting in Dallas, the president of the rightwing Heartland Institute Joseph Bast led a workshop in which a presentation was made that denounced the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced some of the most authoritative accounts of global warming, as “not a credible source of science and economics”.
(3) Cover with a lid and return to the oven for 2½–3 hours, basting the pork regularly with the liquid in the pot.
(4) The bioactivation of HMBA by pure BAST I was dependent on the presence of 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) in the reaction and was inhibited by dehydroepiandrosterone, a physiological substrate for BAST I. Glutathione, a cellular nucleophile with important protective properties, decreased DNA adduct formation in the HMBA sulfation reaction in the absence of glutathione S-transferase activity.
(5) Higher levels of BAST I activity and immunoreactivity as well as HMBA-DNA adduct formation were detected in female rat liver cytosol than in male rat liver cytosol.
(6) As shown by immunoblotting analysis, the main reactive antigen recognized by anti-BAST was a non-glycosylated 32-kDa placental protein which was antigenically related to SSAV p30.
(7) There was no one around, it was a weekday, and the locals were at work and the tourists were in Copacabana, basting on the beach.
(8) Though Pope Francis’s heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations’ unscientific agenda on the climate,” Joseph Bast, Heartland’s president, said in a statement.
(9) These results indicate the usefulness of BAST I to investigate the sulfation and activation of HMBA and probably other hydroxymethylated polyaromatic hydrocarbons to electrophilic and mutagenic metabolites under defined reaction conditions.
(10) The data suggest that BAST I is the same protein as hydrosteroid sulfotransferase 2 (Marcus, C. J., et al.
(11) The mouse liver showed BAST activity for lithocholic acid, taurolithocholic acid and taurochenodeoxycholic acid, whereas the rat liver and kidney had the activity for taurodeoxycholic acid in addition to these compounds.
(12) The dental health care system and dental education as presently structured do not appear to be serving the bast interest of the public.
(13) A non-glycosylated 19-kDa protein was also considered to be one of the anti-BAST-corresponding antigens.
(14) Optimal pH of liver BAST in the two species was different from that of the rat kidney.
(15) Although maximum activity occurs with 5 mM MgCl2, Mg2+ is not essential for BAST I activity.
(16) The roast prime rib – up to an 18oz cattle baron’s cut (a whopping $50, if you will) – is a hunka rosy, fat-basted prime beef.
(17) BAST was inactive towards taurocholic acid, 7 alpha- or 12-monohydroxy-5 beta-cholanoic acid.
(18) com Fennel basted pork chops with rhubarb British pork chops and pink rhubarb make a glorious and surprisingly quick spring supper.
(19) This paper describes a simple technique for inserting basting sutures to secure full-thickness skin grafts.
(20) Its most popular item ordered online so far is a basted turkey breast with a smoked bacon lattice.
Cudgel
Definition:
(n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
(v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the project was neither “a silver bullet for the economy” nor “an express lane to climate disaster”, and said it was time for both sides to stop using the argument over Keystone as a political cudgel.
(2) The result of the French election shows that François Hollande is now being expected to take up the cudgels.
(3) The cause of the injury was broken glass--4, cudgel--4, industrial metal--1, unknown--1.
(4) Their fans took up cudgels on either side, though the deepest desire was for the rivals to appear together.
(5) But the rise of the Islamic State (Isis), the terrorist attack in Paris and a Republican-led Congress increasingly willing to use those phenomena as a cudgel against privacy advocates have complicated congressional attitudes to mass surveillance.
(6) Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard take up cudgels again in ABC documentary Read more Garrett says in the book that supporting Rudd in light of his “trail of destruction and abandoned policy” was his biggest mistake in nearly 10 years in parliament.
(7) Except that, in Loznitsa's version, the wizard is a disgraced former soldier, the siren a child prostitute and the trolls a trio of gnarled brigands who cook potatoes at a forest campfire and cudgel anyone who draws too close.
(8) No one escaped his cudgel as he scored all round the ground, cutting, pulling, driving and, well, just belting the daylights out of the ball, with 17 fours and two sixes.
(9) But they, along with President Obama and gun control campaigners and pressure groups, will now attempt to wield this failure as a cudgel against incumbent, no-voting senators through the next election, hoping to bring about a more favorable climate in 2015.
(10) But some other MPs believe Abbott will actually consolidate his position after the dramas of the week because the various alternatives to the prime minister have now picked up the cudgels against one another.
(11) The jut of beard, the ringed fingers, the walking stick one feels he could use as a wand or a cudgel at any moment: he looks like Hagrid's wayward brother or Gandalf's louche cousin.
(12) But the pinpricks tiny sites can inflict on a target do not begin to match the cudgel blows the mass media of the 20th century could deliver.
(13) Four states voted on the question of gay marriage last Tuesday, and in each the pro-marriage equality side won, suggesting that an issue which eight years ago served as a cudgel for Republicans to push so-called "cultural" voters to the polls is no longer a political asset.
(14) Will of the people!”: we hear it from Labour too (though not its former leader, in his latest estimable effort ), less democratic than fascistic, cudgel for anyone who dares suggest we betray not just Britain – never mind Ireland – but Europe and internationalism.
(15) His successor, Dame Sally Davies, took up the cudgels in 2013, with David Cameron calling for global action the following year.
(16) Professor Goldworth takes up the cudgels in defence of the contemporary moral philosopher, who, he says, should indeed have a role in helping doctors to make clinical decisions based on philosophical theory; Mr. Thompson in his reply says that Professor Goldworth has misinterpreted his earlier argument.
(17) In any case, she expresses no desire to lay down the cudgels and become a confidante.
(18) A number of backbenchers, including the Liberal Democrat elder statesman Sir Menzies Campbell, took up the cudgels.
(19) Religious freedom “is now predominantly used by religious majorities as a cudgel to undermine our existing civil rights law”, Talbot said.
(20) He told CNN that Page was "a very kind, very smart individual" but even then had taken up the white supremacist cudgel.