(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.
Juvenal
Definition:
(n.) A youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
(2) The indictment alleges that Mr Bikindi consulted with President Juvenal Habyarimana over song lyrics before passing the compositions on to Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), a privately owned station set up specifically to broadcast anti-Tutsi propaganda.
(3) This is the conference given by Jorge Mardones, Emeritus Professor of the University of Chile on the occasion of receiving the Juvenal Hernández award.
(4) Juvenal's Sixteen Satire s, translated by Peter Green with illustrations by David Hughes, is published on 15 August by the Folio Society.
(5) "A foul-tempered Woody Allen," said the headline in the Times review of Juvenalia ; "if Lenny Bruce had not been a Jewish junkie," opined the Financial Times, "he might have turned out a little like Juvenal."
(6) When Peter Green walked into my dressing room at the Bush theatre on the last night of the London run, he hailed me with one word: "Juvenal!"
(7) Richard's adaptation cannily steered a clear path through Juvenal's obsessions – fear and loathing in the Forum – revealing at every turn how weirdly contemporary it all seemed: the rampant sex, the cupidity, the triumph of mediocrity, the social injustice.
(8) There was a vacancy for a scapegoat, however, and after being at first included on a shortlist of Barbosa, Juvenal and Bigode – Brazil's three black players – Barbosa got the job.
(9) Every one was a rave for the show, for me, and for Juvenal.
(10) He was a member of the elite inner circle or "Akazu" around President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose death sparked the slaughter by Hutus of about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
(11) France's leading anti-terrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, has accused Rwanda's Tutsi president, Paul Kagame, and other leaders of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) that overthrew the genocidal regime, of prompting the slaughter by assassinating the Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana.
(12) Illustration by David Hughes taken from The Folio Society edition of The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal.
(13) This aimed to overthrow Rwanda's Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, and engineer a return to their home country.
(14) At some unknown time during Vespasian's reign, Juvenal moved to Rome, where he may have studied with the great literary critic and master of rhetoric, Quintilian.
(15) The moment Richard Quick picked up Peter Green's translation of Juvenal's 16 Satires , he saw its theatrical potential.
(16) When the genocide was set in motion by the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana, Rutaganda swiftly helped mobilise the interahamwe to man roadblocks and lead house to house searches for victims.
(17) Before Richard chanced on Green's translation, neither he nor I had known much about Juvenal beyond the famous tags – a healthy mind in a healthy body, bread and circuses, who will guard the guards themselves?
(18) France had close ties to the government of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu who was killed when his plane was shot down in 1994.
(19) Hutu militias carried out the mass slaughter of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus between April and June 1994, triggered by the shooting down of a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana .
(20) President Juvenal Habyarimana bowed to demands for greater political freedom and new parties promptly sprang up, including some that were militantly anti-Tutsi.