(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.
Whistler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
(n.) The ring ousel.
(n.) The widgeon.
(n.) The golden-eye.
(n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
(n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
(n.) The whistlefish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Reasoned criticism of Cook is fair enough, but he has a vastly inexperienced team at his disposal (and no matter what one may think of the absence of the Whistler, Cook can hardly be held responsible for the loss of Trott, Swann, Tremlett and Finn), so why not give him until the end of the Summer?"
(2) Gwen had set off for Paris in the autumn of 1898 and studied at the Academie Carmen, a newly opened school run by a one-time model of Whistler's who himself gave two lessons a week.
(3) This pious art lover could have a career in slapstick if she wants, for her comic destruction of a work of art bears comparison with Rowan Atkinson giving Whistler's Mother a badly drawn cartoon face in the film Bean .
(4) • snooc.ski , two-hour lesson £26 Book it: Peak Retreats has a week in a four-star self-catering apartment, based on five sharing, including Eurotunnel crossing, for £214pp Baseboarding, Whistler, Canada Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Bromley Sports Limited Given that snowboarding, which is essentially surfing on snow, was invented over 40 years ago, it’s surprising that it’s taken so long for someone to introduce front-lying bodyboarding to the slopes.
(5) • 0871 662 9521, untravelledromania.com Whistler, Canada Families travelling at Easter can stay at a hostel walking distance from the slopes in Whistler.
(6) "The Whistler's Largesse (see your 18th minute) would be a great title for an 19th-century Cornish smuggler novel," suggests Nicola Barr.
(7) When the attention-seeking Whistler sued for libel, the action landed Ruskin back in court.
(8) Under Whistler's influence, Gwen developed her technique - a mix of her intuitive and his scientific methods.
(9) Steve Whistler (@stevewhistler) Perhaps the #australiansforcoal campaign only had one KPI: 'Trend position'.
(10) missMM has suggested a slew around Logan Square and the West Loop: The Whistler ("a bar, gallery, record label, and venue") Scofflaw (a gin bar), Three Dots and A Dash (tiki!
(11) Whistler won, but was awarded risible damages of one farthing.
(12) While it does have paintings by American-born European artists such as Copley and Whistler, the only truly American work it owns is a minor, rarely displayed work by George Inness called The Delaware Water Gap that was transferred to it from Tate in 1956.
(13) We heard fiddlers and guitarists, banjo-pickers and penny whistlers.
(14) However England can't take advantage of the whistler's largesse.
(15) • She once blacked out during a training run in Whistler.
(16) Despite having been the prophet of his age, the best art critic this country has ever produced, the patron of the pre-Raphaelites and of Turner, his legacy has been reduced to one of a bearded reactionary who, in 1878, accused James Whistler of “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” when confronted with the American painter’s avant-garde nocturnes .
(17) Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler.
(18) The collection includes Pollock's Mural on Indian Red Ground, considered to be one of his most important works and estimated to be worth more than $250m, as well as important pieces by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Whistler and Marcel Duchamp.
(19) Ukip's Nigel Farage and Cameron's Australian lobbyist and chief dog-whistler Lynton Crosby are driving the Tories ever further to the right.
(20) With the new sport of baseboarding, offered in Whistler for the first time this winter, riders lie on an aerodynamic board to descend soft snowy pistes with plenty of room to manoeuvre.