(n.) The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
(n.) A restraint; a curb; a check.
(n.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
(n.) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.
(n.) A mooring hawser.
(v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.
(v. t.) To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.
(v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) It led on the bridle over the last but come second, called Doctoor.
(2) Fanti, who earns $68,000 a year after 24 years on the job and two promotions, bridles at the notion that government employees are overpaid.
(3) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(4) The use of various trephine sizes and the use of a bridle suture versus a scleral ring were evaluated by several visual parameters.
(5) The middle ear cavity contained a loose mass of connective tissue with few cells, forming sail-like bridles between air-filled spaces.
(6) Strength and direction of the bridle can be modified.
(7) The newly designed nasal bridle described herein has the advantages of easy and rapid placement.
(8) Nick bridles at suggestions that as there are rarely that many lights on in One Hyde Park flats at night, it might mean not many of the foreign buyers actually live there.
(9) Santos had bridled at suggestions before the game that Greece’s tactics have not developed since winning the European Championship in 2004 with a watertight defence and set-piece prowess.
(10) Beside the boluses for the forestomach of ruminants there are the hollow bridle for horses, the ear swabs (for resorptive application), the ocular (ocusert), nasal, and vaginal forms (for resorptive therapeutic use), the skin transmembrane therapeutic systems (TTS), the pourable (pour-on and spot-on) forms, 'autodas' osmotic mini-pumps, the depot-forms, the implants, the aerosol (inhalational) forms, the 'ear rings' (ear tags) as well as the dewlaps, the rings (for tails, limbs, and ears) and the medicated feeds and liquids, and the intramammary, intrauterine, and other therapeutic forms.
(11) Progressive Canadians are especially outraged at Harper’s introduction of controversial anti-terrorism laws ; environmentalists have bridled at a climate change record that includes dropping out of the Kyoto Protocol, while others are frustrated by what they see as Canada’s diminished standing on the world stage.
(12) U-shaped bridles snap on the frame front and an adjustable, interlocking strap fits over the bridles and passes under a protective mask sealing area.
(13) NSA veterans have bridled in the past at what they consider Obama’s tepid support, but both sides earlier showed support for each other.
(14) Even by those standards, the treatment of the Liu family is severe and underscores how the Nobel award embarrassed the Chinese government, which bridles at criticisms of its human rights record and its authoritarian political system.
(15) Those who encountered Refn through his hyper-stylised LA thriller Drive might bridle at Only God Forgives, whose fugue-state narrative style, amnesiac and futureless, has more in common with Valhalla Rising, the hallucinatory but only intermittently engaging Viking movie he made before Drive (though parts of it were magnificent, including Gary Lewis's Scottish pagan talking of the barbaric Christians: "They eat their own god; eat his flesh, drink his blood.
(16) A newly designed nasal bridle and rationale for its clinical use are described.
(17) If you want to see sleaze, just look in the mirror.” He also bridles slightly at the mention of the other phrase that is frequently applied to him – dirty trickster.
(18) Brennan bridles at that, saying it would be "a very weighty decision in terms of declassifying that report."
(19) These have been more dominated by bridle and adhesions (56%) from which (42%) post operative.
(20) Of Rojo’s injury, Van Gaal said: I don’t think he’s available next week [for the visit of Crystal Palace].” When it was put to him that United have only half the amount of Chelsea’s 26 points, the 63-year-old bridled.
Halter
Definition:
(n.) One who halts or limps; a cripple.
(n.) A strong strap or cord.
(n.) A rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse.
(n.) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose.
(v. t.) To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the III between short intromissions from a rested male was experimentally increased to 100 s by use of a halter and lead device, the duration of lordosis was significantly less than that displayed by females paired with control males (8-s III) and virtually the same as that displayed by females paired with males that produced only long intromissions.
(2) The Dipteran flight appendages, the wings and halteres, develop from larval imaginal discs that also produce other sections of the second and third thoracic adult body segments.
(3) 15 minutes later a halter with two long ropes is put on to hold up the animals' heads after they lay down.
(4) Change in the pattern of aldehyde oxidase in bithorax mutants signals alteration in gene expression which at least for this particular enzyme correlates well with the morphological transformation from haltere to wing.
(5) In wild-type Drosophila melanogaster larvae, the Ultrabithorax (Ubx) gene is expressed in the haltere imaginal discs but not in the majority of cells of the wing imaginal discs.
(6) As expected, the pbx1 mutation led to reduced Ubx expression in the posterior compartment of the haltere disc; surprisingly, pbx1 also led to altered expression of the en protein near the compartment border in the central region of the disc.
(7) Two types of cuticular strain detectors, the campaniform sensilla on the haltere of the blowfly, Calliphora vicina, and the slit sensilla on the tibia of the spider, Cupiennius salei, were investigated.
(8) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
(9) This can be readily determined by treating torticollis initially with head halter traction of three to four pounds' weight and observing whether it resolves in five of seven days.
(10) The rapid death of the flies may be ascribed to one or more of the following reasons: (i) reverse migration of numerous microfilariae from the expanded- to the tubular-part of the mid-gut, where they cause serious injury and disintegration of the gut epithelium; (ii) abrasive damage to the stomach epithelial cells by the invading microfilariae with occasional release of the gut contents into the haemocoele; (iii) interruption of the formation of the peritrophic membrane, particularly at its anterior and posterior ends, with subsequent failure of the flies to digest the blood in the stomach; (iv) passage of large amounts of parasitized blood from the stomach backwards into the hind-gut, leading to its mechanical obstruction and (v) invasion and injury of various organs of the fly, among them the ventral nerve-cord, brain, optic nerve, eye, halteres, fat-body and flight musculature by excessive numbers of microfilariae.
(11) Less frequent defects included fused or missing mouth parts and missing halteres.
(12) ap is presumably required for transcriptional regulation of genes involved in wing and haltere development.
(13) The dorsal and ventral histoblast nests within the first abdominal (A1) segment are shown not to be segmentally homologous with the metathoracic (T3) haltere and leg discs, respectively, since they occur at distinct dorso-ventral locations during normal development and can be found together within the same segment in mutants of the Bithorax complex (BX-C) where T3 is transformed towards A2-A4 or A1 towards T3.
(14) Distribution of the enzyme aldehyde oxidase in transformed haltere discs from the homoeotic bithorax series of mutants was investigated by histochemical means.
(15) The transformation of pT2 cells (wing) toward pT3 cells (haltere) is seen in adults carrying eight doses of wild type Ubx and bxd by decreasing the amount of the bithorax complex (BX-C) regulator Polycomb (Pc).
(16) We use a mutant (Haltere-mimic) to show that sequences that normally restrict segmental expression of Ubx in the ectoderm are located downstream from the RNA leader.
(17) The postbithorax (pbx) mutant, which transforms the posterior haltere into a structure resembling the posterior wing blade, reveals an aldehyde oxidase staining pattern in the haltere disc characteristic of the posterior side of the wing disc pouch.
(18) It is shown here that the transformed haltere disc closely resembles the previously established pattern in the wing disc with respect to aldehyde oxidase distribution.
(19) While circulating insulin levels may at times appear to be normal or even elevated in patients with NIDDM, depending on the control group for comparison and the glucose level at which subjects are studied, a profound impairment of pancreatic B-cell function is characteristic of NIDDM and contributes to the hyperglycemia in this condition (Halter, et al., 1985).
(20) We also report an exceptional vg allele (vg83b27) that produces an extreme wing and haltere phenotype, but which defines a second vg complementation unit.