(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.
(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(2) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(3) Permethrin (0.5%) was applied to individual Lutz spruce, Picea x lutzii Little, to protect them from attack by spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby).
(4) This paper is the first published report of vesicular dermatitis due to blister beetles of the family Meloidae in Panamá.
(5) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.
(6) After removal of a transverse strip of ventral thorax from the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, interaction occurred between epidermis posterior to the mesothoracic leg and that anterior to the metathoracic leg.
(7) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(8) A hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide from the corpora cardiac of the two tenebrionid beetle species, Tenebrio molitor and Zophobas rugipes, was purified by high performance liquid chromatography, and its sequence determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman degradation after deblocking enzymatically the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue.
(9) Shortly after gamma irradiation, flour beetles exhibited a decline in resistance to oxygen toxicity.
(10) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(11) One-way deformation tests using sera prepared against known beetle and tabanid spiroplasmas showed each of the above strains to be unique.
(12) Case records of 21 horses with acute illness following ingestion of hay containing dead striped blister beetles (Epicauta spp) were selected for review.
(13) This report reexamines experimentally the problem of competitive indeterminacy in mixed-species populations of the flour beetles, Tribolium confusum and T. castaneum.
(14) Outside, the ancient trees provide a habitat for several rare insect species, including the cobweb beetle, and many bats, such as the noctule, that like to eat them.
(15) However the plants are then attacked by pollen beetles, necessitating a further use of pyrethroids.
(16) The present analysis outlines how the shape of motoneurons which persist through metamorphosis in the beetle Tenebrio molitor is regulated by cellular interactions.
(17) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
(18) Nesting birds were already protected, as were fenced-off areas for insects – 112 spider and 68 beetle species have been identified at Tempelhof.
(19) In staphyliniformic beetles, as in other Coleoptera, the number of type III and V neurosecretory cells is equal to 4.
(20) Glossopharyngeal nerve stimulation of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, revealed responsiveness to low levels of cantharidin (1.3 x 10(-6) M), providing a first demonstration of neural gustatory sensitivity of an animal to this defensive chemical from blister beetles (Meloidae).
Mall
Definition:
(n.) A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
(n.) A heavy blow.
(n.) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
(n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
(v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
(n.) Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.
(n.) A court of justice.
(n.) A place where justice is administered.
(n.) A place where public meetings are held.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
(2) Locations that include the King of Prussia mall near Philadelphia, which with more than 400 stores is one of the biggest in US, and the Staten Island mall.
(3) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
(4) Pearson's father, a retired air pilot, has been killed by a deranged mental patient who opened fire, apparently at random, on the crowds shopping at the Metro-Centre, a massive mall in the middle of this town.
(5) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
(6) An appropriate policing plan will be in place throughout the duration of the visit.” It added that a planned demonstration and a counter demonstration are due to take place near the George VI memorial in St James’s Park, north of the Mall, between 11am and 1pm on Tuesday.
(7) My colleague Chris McGreal reports from the Mall: Large numbers of people leaving because the crowd is so large they can't hear.
(8) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
(9) An hour later, Corbyn, looking cheerful and well-rested, makes his way with difficulty by bicycle through the crowds in the Mall to the palace, where he is to be anointed.
(10) It wasn’t too long ago that I was sitting inside a tent with newfound friends, fasting on the National Mall and feeling a profound hunger – literally, yes, but also a hunger within, to see an end to the misery endured by those who come to our country to escape poverty and violence in search of a bright future for their families.
(11) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
(12) Before Thursday’s attack, al-Shabaab’s highest profile atrocity had been the four-day siege of the Westgate mall in Nairobi in September 2013 that left 67 dead.
(13) A few hours after leaving the mall, Fournier was at home watching a movie with her family when she went into cardiac arrest and fell unconscious.
(14) Birger Malling (1884-1989) was professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oslo from 1939 to 1954.
(15) National Wholesale Liquidators, a warehouse store, sprawls along the edge of Bel-Air mall on the corner of a road lined with boarded-up houses, empty lots and abandoned stores - a burned-out carcass where the heart of a community once beat.
(16) While Celtic are in Astana I would recommend them checking out the shopping mall shaped like a yurt."
(17) Photograph: Alamy Now, among the juniper trees, you can find strip-malls full of crystal shops, aura-reading stations and psychics.
(18) As the sinking continues, the danger of a catastrophic flood grows The problem is exacerbated by the explosion of new apartment blocks, shopping malls and even government offices, which – despite official restrictions on groundwater extraction – not only draw water from this porous ground but also add to the weight compacting it.
(19) A number of major roads, shopping malls and bridges around the Iraqi capital were also closed for fear of follow-up attacks.
(20) Police closed a stretch of Toronto's subway system along the protest route, and the largest shopping mall closed after the protest began to turn violent.