(n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
(n.) A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
(n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
(n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.
Example Sentences:
(1) Often, denim was used in unexpected ways: Louis Vuitton had boiler suits decorated with sparkling mini-mirrors; Craig Green fashioned breastplates from the material, held together with dozens of ties.
(2) The collar is constructed from nylon and polyvinyl chloride tubing, clipped together by nylon junctions, and from chin and breastplate supports of molded nylon rod.
(3) There’s an old, often detestable, tyrannical-academic school, the abomination of desolation in fact, men having, so to speak, a suit of armour, a steel breastplate of prejudices and conventions.” The detestable old tyrants were able to organise appointments to suit their own proteges, he wrote.
(4) "This is cool," she says, admiring a breastplate from ancient Colombia.
(5) But he wanted it only after subjecting the form to its limits, stuffing it with random accreted details - like the man fighting at the barricades, who "had padded his chest with a breastplate of nine sheets of grey packing paper and was armed with a saddler's awl".
(6) We have used this material on 8 occasions after various tumour resections: 3 times after subtotal resection of the sternochrondral breastplate and 5 times after lateral or anterolateral resection removing at least 2 ribs.
(7) The cephalic part is first molded and then integrated solidly into the thoracic part (breastplate and backplate).
(8) My guides, including senior curator and anthropologist Michael Pickering, opened and slid out for me countless humidity-controlled cupboards and deep drawers containing precious items in tissue paper: botanist Joseph Banks's 18th-century florilegium engravings, convict "love pennies" (coins filed flat by convicts about to be transported from England to the colony, inscribed with messages), breastplates given by white settlers to "tamed" Aboriginal people, convict leg irons.
(9) The Squad proudly proclaim their mission as “suicide”, and even though they have a chance to continue their run at the Romans, they lift their breastplates and stab themselves in the heart.
(10) "My partner Jane made the breastplates from papier-mâché and all that."
Fauld
Definition:
(n.) The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Faulds praised Alex Salmond, the Scottish National party first minister.
(2) Narrated by Faulds, the programme went under the name of The Long, Long Trail.
(3) For both Faulds and his young leader this was probably a lucky escape: though on the right of the Labour party on many ideological issues, Faulds was his own man and did not take kindly to pagers, spin doctors or other means of modern thought control.
(4) First elected for Smethwick, scene of a famous conflict with racism, in 1966, Faulds was fiercely anti-racist, among whom he sometimes numbered Zionists.
(5) Not quite in the Robeson league, the Faulds voice was wonderful then, and remained so to the end.
(6) Its chairman, Jim Faulds, who accused the government of "sacrificing" the society, confirmed that the mutuals Nationwide and Britannia, along with two banks, rumoured to be HSBC and Barclays, had been in talks with the Financial Services Authority about a buyout.
(7) Yet Faulds, who switched to safer Warley in 1974, was not a man with whom to enter the political jungle.
(8) Andrew Matthew William Faulds, politician and actor, born March 1 1923; died May 31 2000
(9) Ultrafresh (Faulding) was used as mouth care agent for half the subjects and normal saline was used for the other half.
(10) How the fingerprints slowly became standardized involves many persons, including Nathaniel Grew, Johannes Purkinje, William Herschel, Henry Faulds, Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Mark Twain, Juan Vucetich, Edward Henry, and J. Edgar Hoover.
(11) When Andrew Faulds called a Tory opponent "an honourable shit" (1988) or declared that Norman St John Stevas "lacked the capacity to put a bun in anyone's oven" (when the House was discussing abortion) there was not much doubt as to whom said exactly what.
(12) Faulds said that if the £26m writedown in its commercial property investments was put to one side, the society was due to make a modest profit this year and it was still a healthy, viable business.
(13) Darling, under intense criticism about this decision from Faulds, the Scottish government and opposition MPs, insisted that the FSA and the Treasury had been working intensively to keep the building society in business.
(14) The implication that the Dunfermline was in effect insolvent was rejected by Faulds, who claimed the Treasury repeatedly ignored his requests for direct talks on the society's future.
(15) Andrew Faulds, the unmistakably loud and thespian Labour backbencher, who has died aged 77, was a House of Commons character who never managed to live up to the role he envisaged for himself.
(16) Tall, handsome and imposing, Faulds was a man of deeply-held passions, vocally pro-Arab and pro-European throughout his career.
(17) Married to Bunty Whitfield in 1945 (they had one daughter), Faulds was famous around Westminster as a ladies man, happy to flaunt a young conquest in front of MPs whose private lives were quieter.
(18) Andrew Faulds was born in what was then Tanganyika, now Tanzania, the son of Matthew Faulds, a Presbyterian missionary.
(19) The SNP leader "has been absolutely magnificent without looking for any political gain", Faulds told the BBC.
(20) Uncritical in his affections, fond of good company and foreign trips, Faulds was also capable of being offensive to Margaret Thatcher as few Labour men felt able to be, not least Neil Kinnock.