(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.
Lunge
Definition:
(n.) A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
(v. i.) To make a lunge.
(v. t.) To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
(n.) Same as Namaycush.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(3) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(4) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(5) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(6) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(7) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(8) The inhibitory effects were stronger in A549 lung cancer cells than in HEL cells at the same TFP dose.
(9) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(10) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(11) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(12) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(13) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(14) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(15) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
(16) This study compares anaesthesia with controlled ventilation of the lungs with atracurium and alfentanil analgesia with halothane anaesthesia.
(17) The review provides an update of drug-induced pulmonary disorders, focusing on newer agents whose effects on the lung have been studied recently.
(18) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(19) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(20) Lung metastases leading to death were observed in one patient with small-cell osteosarcoma despite complete destruction of the primary tumor by preoperative chemotherapy.