(n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
(n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
(n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
(n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
(v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
(1) Here he is on the Nasty Party in 1835, in a letter to Catherine Hogarth (soon to take the name Dickens, as his wife): "... a ruthless set of bloody-minded villains... perfect savage... superlative blackguards..." Two days later he ended another letter: "P.S.
Lim
Definition:
(n.) A limb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
(2) A spokesperson for Lim emphasised his involvement with Salford is “philanthropic”, motivated by his interest in developing young players and has nothing to do with Valencia, Mendes or TPO.
(3) These oncogenes (Ttg1, Ttg2, SCL, LylI, H0X11) all belong to classic families of transcription factors, possessing LIM domains, helix-loop-helix motifs, or homeodomains.
(4) This model of cell differentiation was used to investigate the expression of a previously isolated collection of mitogen-induced primary response sequences cloned from murine 3T3 cells; the TIS (tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate-induced sequences) genes (Lim et al., 1987).
(5) Analogies in the sequences of two related zinc metallopeptidases, the bacterial thermolysin (316 amino acids) and the recently cloned neutral endopeptidase 24.11 ("enkephalinase", 749 amino acids), have been demonstrated by a hydrophobic cluster analysis method derived from the Lim theory.
(6) A differentiation-defective variant (DD-1) of the MM14 myoblasts acquired the ability to synthesize DNA in response to treatment with epidermal growth factor (EGF) (R. W. Lim and S. D. Hauschka, 1984, Dev.
(7) The latter three proteins share a homeodomain, in addition to the LIM domains.
(8) In the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF) a human colon cell line, LIM 1215, proliferates in serum-free medium.
(9) Lim's public release of a letter sent to the Liverpool board, as court proceedings began, could be seen to aid the argument of Hicks and Gillett.
(10) Lim says: "It's an indication that our education system, in focusing so intensively on grades, has failed to give us the life skills we need."
(11) This result is better than that obtained by the most widely used methods--Lim (1974), Chou and Fasman (1978) and Garnier et al.
(12) The results define the rhombotin gene family as a class of T-cell oncogenes with duplicated cysteine-rich LIM domains.
(13) The chief executive, Simon Lim, says Tan was jolted by the manager's announcement that he would seek backing from the board for strengthening.
(14) Isolated humic acids from offshore sediments from the North Adriatic (Lim channel, near Rovinj, Yugoslavia) were characterized according to their elementary composition, the amount of products of hydrolysis, and the trace elements bound.
(15) The fact Malaysian businessman Tan, through Lim, has indicated that will not be happening may be of some concern to the Scot, in his third season at the club.
(16) The Chinese government has also been proactive on developing the North’s Rason area and working on a railway, so it can improve its regional economies,” Lim said.
(17) These results suggest that the LIM-1839 cells are biologically responsive to endogenously produced IGF-II, and may thereby provide an in vitro model for autocrine regulation of human tumor growth by IGF-II.
(18) Electrohydraulic and extracorporeal shock waves were used to treat the colorectal and gastric cancer cell lines LIM 2412 and MKN45.
(19) Lim and Spirin [25] proposed a preferable conformation of the nascent peptide during the ribosomal transpeptidation.
(20) In addition, the EGF receptor was found to be phosphorylated on tyrosine in LIM 1215 cells proliferating at high density, suggesting that the autocrine production of transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha) and subsequent ligation to the EGF receptor was occurring.