(n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
(n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(3) No vaccination reactions were noted, although most birds involved in the trials were carrying Mycoplasma spp.
(4) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
(6) Differences between parental and nonparental birds in VIP profiles were detected in the ventral portion of the infundibular region.
(7) The enterococcal population of the 'dosed' birds contained a greater proportion of Enterococcus faecium than did that of the control birds while the converse was true for Ent.
(8) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
(9) After 32 days of feeding, body weight, liver weight and egg production decreased in birds fed lead while kidney weights increased.
(10) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(11) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
(12) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(13) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(14) Water restriction of HYD birds for 5 days as adults stimulated tubule hypertrophy but not to the same extent as the chronic regimen and with no evidence for hyperplasia.
(15) Thus, the possibility exists that androgen secretion in some chelonian systems may exhibit a high degree of LH specificity like that of mammals and birds.
(16) 1 After the injection of labelled procaine and lidocaine in mice, the location and concentration of radioactivity was demonstrated by autoradiographical methods.2 An accumulation in some endocrine cells such as the pancreatic islets, the hypophysis, the adrenal medulla and certain cells of the thyroid (probably representing the calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells) was shown.3 After the injection of [(14)C]-procaine in chicks, an accumulation of radioactivity was observed in the ultimobranchial gland (which produces calcitonin in birds), but not in the thyroid.4 Radioactivity was also shown to be strongly concentrated in structures containing melanin, such as the pigment of the eye, skin and hair and in some organs involved in the metabolism and excretion of these drugs.
(17) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(18) A man in New Zealand suggested that they need to rid the country of cats to protect their native birds.
(19) Birds showed evidence of increased tolerance, with age, to phenylpropanolamine but not to monensin.
(20) Again, changes in birds fed CTN + OA for 7 days were similar but milder.
Hackle
Definition:
(n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
(n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
(n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used.
(n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
(v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
(v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(2) Scholars on both sides of the Pacific say they are alarmed at the potential for US-China relations to break down if Trump continues to raise Beijing’s hackles over sensitive issues such as Taiwan.
(3) Those views have raised hackles among some US conservatives.
(4) A homogeneous batch of dew retted hackled flax was divided into two portions.
(5) The decision raised hackles both in Washington, where it was feared it would tarnish the credibility of the war effort, and in Afghanistan, where many local people concluded the Americans were not serious about rooting out corruption and misgovernance.
(6) Defenders of free speech have had their hackles raised and Boris laughs all the way to City Hall.
(7) It does like to nudge you towards paying, which may raise hackles of some fans of the original.
(8) David Cameron raised the hackles of critics when he announced the idea at an EU summit last month , with some comparing it to Australia’s controversial interception policy.
(9) More often, standups raise hackles not by Gervais-level crassness, but by sacrificing propriety in their race to be funniest first when news breaks.
(10) Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles.
(11) On one of the biggest issues facing Europe – policy towards Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin of Russia – she and Italy are seen as being overly pro-Russian, raising hackles, especially in eastern Europe where Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, would also like the job.
(12) I think we were just scratchy and hackles up and defensive.
(13) At least one reporter has made the mistake recently of referring to him as a "wheeler-dealer" prompting him to stomp off in disgust, his hackles raised by all the tired barrow-boy, Arthur Daley analogies.
(14) When Bill Gates handpicked Dryden to be his head of agriculture in 2010, he came with a CV certain to raise the hackles of anyone who distrusted global agribusiness.
(15) Hastings Law professor Ahmed Ghappour recently called that effort “possibly the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception.” But the FBI is trying to alter those rules without raising privacy advocates’ hackles (though luckily some have caught on ).
(16) These would raise hackles with several countries, the Conservative MEP Ian Duncan warned.
(17) BitTorrent (the company) works with some artists to distribute music and multimedia bundles for free, but its name still raises hackles within the music industry over the impact of BitTorrent (the technology) on piracy.
(18) So what's really raising hackles is not the number of people who cannot communicate or be communicated with.
(19) Party leader Natalie Bennett has raised hackles by backing a new school in north London.
(20) That has also raised hackles everywhere else because of perceived high-handed prescriptions from Berlin combined with Merkel's maddening caution and refusal to be rushed in a crisis.