(n.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
(v. t.) To build.
(n. & v.) See Big, n. & v.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) Intestinal macromolecular transmission in young rats of 10, 14, 18, 22 and 30 days of age was measured as the blood serum levels of markers 6 h after oral feeding of a solution containing bovine IgG (BIgG), bovine serum albumin (BSA) and fluorescein-isothiocyanate-labeled dextran 70,000 (FITC-D), either alone (controls) or with soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI) or swine colostrum trypsin inhibitor (SCTI).
(3) And had he not escaped and then skipped from continent to continent, Biggs would never have ended up on so many front pages and leading so many bulletins.
(4) Additional examination of the of the patient's plasma specimen using the antibody assay (Biggs-Bidwell-1959) showed the presence of the antibody to the Factor Viii which were active in 1:100 dilution.
(5) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(6) Raimunda and Biggs parted – although they married years later in Belmarsh prison – but Michael became a pop star in Brazil in a band called the Magic Balloon Gang.
(7) Biggs wasn't a cuddly heart of gold cockney character to be feted .
(8) "To use a panel like this is unproductive," Mr Biggs said.
(9) He Biggs first suffered a stroke in 1998 and has been admitted to hospital several times since returning to Britain.
(10) The offical Scotland Yard portrait of Ronnie Biggs, released after h escaped from Wandsworth prison.
(11) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
(12) The eponym associated with this disorder, is the surname of the first patient examined in detail and reported by Biggs and colleagues in a paper describing the clinical and laboratory features of seven affected individuals.
(13) Biggs communicated using a pointer and alphabet, he said.
(14) Biggs suffered his first stroke in 1998 though he recovered to throw a 70th birthday party.
(15) • Peter Fleming will be in conversation with Joanna Biggs, author of All Day Long, on Wednesday 23 September, 7pm, Sutton House, Homerton High Street, London
(16) To justify their large advance they invented a story that Otto Skorzeny, the man who organised the ex-Nazi escape network Odessa, had financed the robbery, a hoax that Read only learned of when he went to Brazil to interview Biggs.
(17) Also deserving of a long, hard look is the provenance of John Biggs's characterisation as a racist.
(18) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
(19) "Ronnie Biggs was a violent criminal who evaded justice for decades," tweeted one Tory MEP candidate.
(20) Once the rope-ladder had taken him over the wall from the exercise yard in Wandsworth prison in 1965, Biggs embarked on a lifelong, symbiotic relationship with the media.
Wigg
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Wig
Example Sentences:
(1) (Chamberlin, M.J., Nierman, W.C., Wiggs, J. and Neff, N. (1979) J. Biol.
(2) Philip Wigge Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University The assumption that only GM crops will feed the world represents a position contested by scientists, food producers and civil society groups everywhere.
(3) But Profumo was the focus of antipathy for old sweats such as Kerby and the Labour MP Lieutenant-Colonel George Wigg.
(4) To this end, RBcDNA clones or several polymorphic markers which link to the RB gene have been identified and used for the diagnosis of retinoblastoma predisposition and five RFLP markers within the RB gene have been shown to be useful (Wiggs et al.
(5) The one I was shown involved responding to action commands – freeze, reach, hop, “squirm like a wiggly worm” – freezing between each one.
(6) The major RNA products are specific transcripts from T7 promoters A(1) and C; these promoters are also efficiently utilized by RNA polymerases purified from a wide range of other bacterial species [Wiggs, J., Bush, J.
(7) 200 kilobases [kb]) and its multiple dispersed exons (Wiggs et al., N. Engl.
(8) In January 1963, he informed George Wigg, Harold Wilson's intelligence chief, that Ward's protégé Christine Keeler, previously the girlfriend of property speculator Peter Rachman, had had a four-month affair with Profumo after a brief fling with the Soviet naval attache Evegeny Ivanov.
(9) The practice of geriatric medicine most properly should begin not when the dog or cat reaches some specific "golden" age, but rather when the wiggly, robust puppy or kitten receives its first examination.
(10) Soon after, the jury was told, Floorgraphics began to lose crucial contracts with key clients – Safeway, Winn-Dixie, the South Carolina retail chain Piggly Wiggly and others – many of whom defected to News America.
(11) Selected to succeed George Wigg at Dudley, he lost the 1968 byelection to the Conservative Donald Williams, but won in 1970.
(12) Her agent, Michael Wiggs, said: "There's no truth whatsoever in any suggestion that Sam is 'quitting' Eastenders over the current storyline.