(n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
(a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
(a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
(2) In many herons and bitterns, only one cecum is present, and in the secretary bird there are two pairs of ceca.
(3) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(4) Visitors understandably make a beeline for the big-name big game parks like Yala, but sharing sunrise over the lagoon with Indian pond herons, black and yellow bitterns, a dazzling purple swamp hen, black cormorants, a peacock surveying the scene from a rocky perch and even a small crocodile, had its own magic.
(5) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
(6) All is limpid observation, gliding from one bittern to another, until the startling remark that fading colour enhanced the flowers' "sincerity", as if they have been pressing a case.
(7) Bitterns had almost gone extinct in this country, and they’re now breeding out there.” One of Trevelyan’s students from Ghana will talk about how he and his colleagues managed to save the Togo slippery frog from extinction .
(8) There were just 11 male bitterns in Britain in 1997, but this summer 47 males made their booming call in Somerset alone .
(9) Higher water levels at the Otmoor reserve in Oxfordshire have made reed beds wetter, giving birds such as bitterns a better chance of nesting.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Malta allows 9,798 hunters to shoot up to 16,000 turtle dove and quail each spring but Packham found injured and dead birds illegally shot last week included swifts, yellow-legged gulls, kestrels and a little bittern.
(11) That will impact on the fish that feed on them and the birds, like the bitterns, which eat the fish."
(12) Bittern single-copy DNA has evolved at a rate approximately 25% faster, and boat-billed heron (Cochearius) and rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) DNA has evolved approximately 19% slower, than that of day and night herons.
(13) The river is at first open and sunny, but becomes wooded and secretive after two miles, before winding through the reedy lowlands of the Stodmarsh nature reserve , good for spotting bittern, marsh harriers and water vole.
(14) Consider these sentences from near the beginning of A Week: We glided noiselessly down the stream, occasionally driving a pickerel from the covert of the pads, or a bream from her nest, and the smaller bittern now and then sailed away on sluggish wings from some recess in the shore, or the larger lifted itself out of the long grass at our approach, and carried its precious legs away to deposit them in a place of safety.
(15) Nycticorax nycticorax, Ardea cinerea, Egretta garzetta, and Egretta intermedia were naturally infected with Clinostomum complanatum (Trematoda: Clinostomatidae) among fourteen wild herons, seven wild egrets and one wild bittern evaluated at the Veterinary Hospital of Tottori University, Tottori, Japan.
Trombone
Definition:
(n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.
(n.) The common European bittern.
Example Sentences:
(1) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(2) folds up its comedy deckchair, presses mute on the trombones and drapes a hand towel discreetly over Mark's crotch.
(3) That’s the case at the Ice Music Festival in the Norwegian ski resort of Geilo, where even the instruments – harps, xylophones, guitars and trombones – are made of ice, bringing a wholly original atmosphere and sound.
(4) In our case, though the trombonist had no apparent straining episode, the causative factor can be assumed to be the tenderness of the alveoli originating from frequent over-inflations of the lungs and high intra-alveolar pressures of about 150 cmH2O during trombone performance, which may result in alveolar rupture under normal intralveolar pressures.
(5) So, through soaring trombones, Orlov gave me a detailed account of Khrushchev's indictment: that Stalin was a tyrant, a murderer and torturer of party members.
(6) I didn't like Elvis, played classical trombone and grew up with folk music.'
(7) By now, Heaton was in another band – singing and playing trombone with Norman Cook and two friends.
(8) He played trumpet and trombone, sang in the choir and a few musical shows.
(9) It would be easy to mock those involved – to accompany Marianne's tutu-appliquéing activities with a comedy trombone, perhaps, or to let us know that it's all a bit infradig by filming Martin unknowingly treading on a turd, then following him as he tramples it around the Northern line.
(10) Their pastor, reverend Jawanza Colvin, introduced the civil rights campaigner as “one of God’s trombones”.
(11) "This song is a love song not for some of us but for all of us and tonight we celebrate the commitment to love by some very beautiful couples," said Latifah, before introducing the rap duo with Mary Lambert and jazz artist Trombone Shorty.
(12) Functional would best describe it – and random, if you consider the occasional sales of trombones and horse blankets.
(13) Inside, this crest is both hollow and is a loop that links to the nasal passages in the skull – it is in fact nothing so much like a giant dinosaurian trombone or didgeridoo.
(14) Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception's entire soundtrack, from the booming trombone theme to the strains of rising dread, originates from one of the chanteuse's most famous songs.
(15) At least we got paid – back in the 70s an English band called UFO played in Russia and they were paid in trombones.
(16) The clearest example is Inception's theme, which an enterprising YouTuber has already deciphered, speeding up the booming trombones to reveal Piaf's Gallic melancholy.
(17) Updated at 4.46am BST 4.27am BST Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) The saddest trombone plays now at Dodger Stadium.
(18) This utilizes a modified radiofrequency trombone for size adjustment that results in a stable frequency over a wide range of dimensions.
(19) The crowd goes wild - they’ll take wins where they can get ’em at this point - and the Kazakh-stand cover of Pink Panther on a trombone is drowned out by applause.
(20) The band currently has 22 members, including comedian Bernie Clifton on trombone, although drums and trumpets dominate.