(n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
(n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fourteen of these fragments have been found by one man, Blaine Alan Gibson, the result of an independent, self-funded investigation he began 18 months ago.
(2) Third-year quarterback Blaine Gabbert, still just 23, was also showing some signs of improvement before a hairline fracture to the thumb of his throwing hand ruled him out of the last two weeks of preseason.
(3) One home in an outlying valley was destroyed on Thursday night, said Bronwyn Nickel, a spokeswoman for Blaine County, where the fire is burning.
(4) Amateur investigator Blaine Gibson , a lawyer from Seattle who has travelled the world trying to solve the MH370 mystery, has also recovered other possible MH370 debris, but authorities have yet to confirm if any of the pieces belong to the missing plane.
(5) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, magician David Blaine, author Tim Ferriss and actress Felicia Day are among its “most loved” broadcasters at launch – a metric based on how many hearts they’ve received from viewers.
(6) The brutality of North Korea's prison camps was revealed last year in a book by defector Shin Dong-hyuk, who worked with former Washington Post reporter Blaine Harden to tell of his experience since birth in Camp 14.
(7) My choice is that I like this country, I respect our flag, and I don’t see all the atrocities going on in this country that people say are going on.” Kaepernick, who burst from obscurity to lead San Francisco to within five yards of a Super Bowl title during the 2012 season, has yet to take a snap in three regular-season games as a backup to starter Blaine Gabbert.
(8) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
(9) Other lots included a Damien Hirst painting, a private performance by the magician David Blaine, who also attended, and a week-long stay at DiCaprio’s home in Palm Springs that went for $140,000.
(11) The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said on Friday it had been contacted by Blaine Gibson, an American adventurer who has been hunting for the aircraft over the past year.
(12) Blaine Alan Gibson has spent much of the past year travelling in the Indian ocean region, attempting to solve the mystery of what happened to MH370.
(13) At first, her ideas about beauty and goodness, her mysterious glamour and charm will dazzle and seduce her girls – “the crème de la crème” – at the Marcia Blaine School, but in the end the same gifts will cause her downfall.
(14) 🎉😂💘🎉😂💘🎉😂@raisingmalawi.org A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Nov 27, 2016 at 9:34am PST Other lots up for auction include a private game of poker with actors Edward Norton and Jonah Hill, a week in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs home, a private dinner performance by the magician David Blaine, and artworks by Ai Weiwei, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel , Marilyn Minter and Damien Hirst.
(15) Let’s make sure that we take care of the heritage of the Native American people.” Added militia member Blaine Cooper: “The rightful owners need to come back and claim their belongings.” But Kennedy said the tribe has a good relationship with refuge officials and noted that the Paiute people refuse to communicate with militia leaders or visit the occupation.
(16) Perry is known fan of magic in real-life, as evidenced by her appearance in David Blaine's Real or Magic, a special that features Kanye West and Woody Harrelson – together.
(17) Richard Westcott (@BBCwestcott) Has Blaine Gibson found more of MH370 Madagascar?
(18) Kaepernick is in competition to win back the starting quarterback job in San Francisco that he lost to Blaine Gabbert last season.
(19) American blogger Blaine Gibson, who has been conducting his own search for the missing plane, said he located the debris and showed it to officials.
(20) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
Plain
Definition:
(v. i.) To lament; to bewail; to complain.
(v. t.) To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.
(superl.) Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.
(superl.) Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
(superl.) Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.
(superl.) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
(superl.) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.
(superl.) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank.
(superl.) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food.
(superl.) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman.
(superl.) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
(superl.) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.
(adv.) In a plain manner; plainly.
(a.) Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.
(a.) A field of battle.
(v.) To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
(v.) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(4) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(5) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(6) These patients will generally require a plain roentgenographic examination with subsequent scintography, MRI, CT, laboratory work, and biopsy as indicated by any positive findings during the diagnostic work-up.
(7) The ultrasonographic features, the findings of plain abdominal X-ray studies, and of intravenous urography are described.
(8) CZP reduced the incidence of convulsions only after the larger dose, but plain solvent (propylene glycol, ethanol, water) was equally effective.
(9) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(10) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(11) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(13) Tension pneumocephalus was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and plain skull X-ray.
(14) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
(15) Plain abdominal radiography demonstrated calcification in three patients and evidence of Thorotrast (thorium dioxide) deposition in one.
(16) The absence of a visible fracture on plain skull radiographs does not exclude a fracture, and those patients with clinical signs of a fracture should be treated appropriately and further investigations performed.
(17) The success of correction was evaluated on plain radiographs using A P and "false profile" views as well as by CT.
(18) (7) Histologically, in the chick, the wall of the truncus and the conus contain cardiac muscle as late as stage 28, but from then on the walls of the truncus are transformed into connective tissue and plain muscle.
(19) The tumor was palpable on physical examination, but not apparent on plain radiographs.
(20) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.