(n.) A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
(2) A radiograph showing a pin head down in the trachea or bronchus, coughing (especially with hemoptysis) in excess of that expected from just an aspirated pin, and a child hesitant to divulge the full history suggest blowgun dart aspiration.
(3) Animals were anesthetized by blowgun under similar circumstances that allow for determination of basal cortisol concentrations.
(4) In Ecuador, the Colorado Indians used N. chiguila, while the Coaiquer Indians still derive a poison from the latex of N. naga and the Cayapá Indians occasionally make use of a blowgun poison, hambi, which probably also comes from a Naucleopsis species.
(5) We report on two young patients with unusual airway foreign bodies: blowgun darts.
Dart
Definition:
(n.) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
(n.) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
(n.) A spear set as a prize in running.
(n.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.
(v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
(v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.
(v. i.) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
(v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proceptivity (hop-darting) was facilitated by progesterone in females, but was never observed in males.
(2) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
(3) ACTUALLY, IT GOT RATHER MORE THAN THAT World Darts, Sky Sports 1, 7pm – The PDC World Darts final, won by Adrian Lewis in a thrilling 7-5 win over Gary Anderson , averaged 884,000 viewers – and peaked with 1.27 million.
(4) Findley darts round him and slots him beneath the advancing Ricketts.
(5) After darting in from the left the forward fired a low shot past Martínez at the near post to crown a superb personal performance.
(6) Following 6 days of mental or physical practice by the experimental groups, the performance level on the dart-throwing task was again measured for all subjects.
(7) Playback partially reduced darting to control levels.
(8) She’s already being controlled.” Helping professionals recognise coercive control is a key reason that Monckton-Smith has created a new diagnostic system called Dart ( domestic abuse reference tool ): she hopes it will help elicit new information so that frontline workers can respond to the extreme danger that victims are in.
(9) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
(10) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
(11) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
(12) Soliciting behavior (hop-darting) was not enhanced by any treatment, suggesting that catecholamine activity has an inhibitory influence on the stop component of sexual behavior, but not on the whole copulatory pattern.
(13) But Marshall had also had to deny Tyler Walker twice and Michail Antonio once, with important stops, before finally having his resistance broken in the 86th minute, after Antonio had darted clear.
(14) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.
(15) Chelsea could at least draw encouragement from Eden Hazard's winner, the team's leading scorer fed by Ashley Cole's pass to dart inside Jordi Amat and skim a shot goalwards, which Tremmel might have saved had Ashley Williams not dived across his eye-line.
(16) On Sunday, Leslee Dart, a publicist for Allen, 78, said: Mr Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful.
(17) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(18) If Labour were in fighting mood, there is no shortage of weak spots on the Conservative flank at which they could aim their darts.
(19) Protein occurs in the dart structure as an external sheath, as a lining to the tubular core and as a matrix component of the mineral phase.
(20) Small fish are darting in and out with as little apparent purpose as our day so far.