(n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
(n.) A gallows.
Example Sentences:
(1) A collection of poems by his widow Karen Green, entitled Bough Down, won praise earlier this year , and Quack This Way , a tribute from his friend Bryan A Garner was published this month.
(2) Bough Down is a collection of prose poems interspersed with small collages, in which Green charts her "passage through grief", said small US publisher Siglo Press, which released the book earlier this spring.
(3) "They shiver in the wind and throw out boughs with a calculated aim, which is to be beautiful," wrote Ronald Blythe of a pair of young ashes near his home in Essex.
(4) Fragments showing up on the ceiling and the other walls – partly covered by a particularly horrible 1960s version of Morris's classic willow boughs design, whose owner could never have guessed they were burying a genuine piece by the master – suggest there is much more work to come.
(5) Instead, I fixed my eyes upwards to those boughs laden with keys.
(6) Then relax under laden boughs in the idyllic Orchard Tearoom, while the kids chase the peacocks.
(7) P. obscura primarily moves quadrupedally along large boughs; P. melalophos relies more on leaping between smaller supports.
(8) The modern day druids and pagans who assemble bearing green boughs for the winter and summer solstices, much mocked for inventing supposedly ancient rituals, may not be so far off the mark after all.
(9) "I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down," she writes in Bough Down .
(10) Gerard Manley Hopkins admired the "contradictory supple curvings" of an ash's boughs.
(11) The plant Soma is described as "thousand boughs" and photographic evidence has been offered in support.
(12) Frank Bough took over as the main anchor in 1968 and stayed for 15 years, followed by Des Lynam for a decade from 1983 and then Steve Rider.
(13) It also introduced them to famous hosts from David Coleman to Frank Bough and Des Lynam.
(14) Right now wade, ankle deep, through flame-coloured leaves, catch a glimpse of ripening blue sloes shimmering in the undergrowth and dodge overhanging boughs laden with berries and rose hips.
(15) Alex is perched on a bough above him, naked under an olive-green parka, wide open down the front.
(16) Travel is primarily by brachiation along large boughs.
(17) "Ms Green turns out to be a profoundly good writer: Bough Down is lovely, smart and funny, in addition to being brutally clear and sad," writes the Wall Street Journal .
(18) In the tree picture, Lutz is on a lower bough, wearing only a red PVC coat, which is hanging open.
(19) On Breakfast Time, from 1983, he had a pop news slot and became the presenter Frank Bough's once-a-week stand-in.
(20) "Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject.
Hough
Definition:
(n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
(n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
(n.) The popliteal space; the ham.
(n.) Same as Hock, a joint.
(v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring.
(n.) An adz; a hoe.
(v. t.) To cut with a hoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the 100-day mark approached, Hough said: “I think the support remains.” “The economy improved elsewhere,” she said.
(2) Newborns were studied at district hospital, Chinsurah, in Houghly district (West Bengal) from September 1977-August 1978.
(3) There have since been several workshops offered by Xomed and Dr. Hough, who developed the device, to train otolaryngologists how to implant this device.
(4) Professor Mike Hough, who was in the team that started the Home Office's then British crime survey in the early 1980s, says the fact that both the key yardsticks – the official crime survey and the police statistics – point in the same direction suggests there has been a "real and welcome fall" in crime.
(5) The literature thus far is limited to the experience of Hough and others involved with his initial trials.
(6) Camra's pubs director, Julian Hough, said the pub's success was hard earned against some tough competition: "The Swan with Two Necks really is the best of the best, having beaten rival pubs at every step, in a process which starts at a local level and takes a full 12 months to complete.
(7) A subtle curved line due to pneumothorax is then detected by means of the Hough transform.
(8) Perry Boys Abroad, by Ian Hough, has been released by Pennant Publishing
(9) If he can’t produce, then he’ll be as bad as Hillary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Melissa Hough, president of the board of trustees of the Slate Belt Heritage Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
(10) The algorithm is based on the Hough transformation and can determine the parameters describing an ellipse even in low signal-to-noise ratio images and when the contour is only partially visualized such as in non-perfused regions of the left ventricular myocardium.
(11) A) There are 2 types of bone conduction implant: the "Audiant Bone Conduction" system of Hough-Vernon (Xomed), where an outside electromagnetic coil sends signals transcutaneously to a magnetic screw embedded on the temporal bone.
(12) Case study Julia Hough, a 39-year-old emergency services call handler in Dorset, was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2002.
(13) EGK Red carpet host Ryan Seacrest and actor Julianne Hough arrive at the Golden Globes with matching bouffants.
(14) In this paper we present you our clinical experience of 2 cases in which we implanted the Audiant Bone Conductor (by J. Hough).
(15) We report a case of an adrenal lipoma, a very rare lesion first described in 1899 and of which a total of six cases have previously been reported (Lange 1966, Page, De Lellis & Hough 1986).
(16) This group was tentatively assigned to His 14 on the basis of the results on X-ray crystallographic and chemical modification studies [Hough et al.
(17) PopCap Games , whose highly entertaining and child-friendly game Plants vs Zombies was nominated for a Bafta last year, feature "player profiles" on their website, including "Barbara Simpson, 36 – Connecticut mom plays Bejeweled Blitz with a baby on her lap" and "Ann Hough, 48 – Mother, daughter bond over Plants vs Zombies".
(18) EGK Actress Julianne Hough arrives at the Golden Globes.
(19) The stenotic change was detected on the basis of the reference diameter estimated by Hough transformation.
(20) Four of 33 tumors were classified as benign according to the Weiss, van Slooten, or Hough systems (tumor tissue was unavailable for seven patients).