(n.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
(n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MP for Romford urged Cameron to show "bulldog spirit" at the talks.
(2) In each case a small bulldog clamp was applied to the renal artery for less than 30 minutes.
(3) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(4) The chief justice is pursuing him with bulldog determination and the letter of the law is on his side.
(5) The former MEP called for the British "bulldog confidence" to come to the fore to push for the completion of the single market.
(6) Duplication of a kidney and ureter in an 18-month-old male English Bulldog was demonstrated radiographically and was confirmed surgically.
(7) Unilateral ataxia of the head and trunk and right-sided paralysis of the trigeminal, facial, and hypoglossal nerves were the major neurologic dysfunctions in a nine-year-old male French bulldog.
(8) They rallied to make the top eight and were outstanding last week to beat the Western Bulldogs in their elimination final.
(9) Rosie Redknapp chose to give his his Monaco bank account the password Rosie47 after his beloved pet bulldog.
(10) The Conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson , said the coalition looked like "a kind of cross between a bulldog and a chihuahua".
(11) Redknapp told the court that when asked to chose a password for the account, he had opted for Rosie47, in honour of his pet bulldog and the year of his birth.
(12) You battered the Canterbury Bulldogs to win the World Club Challenge in February - was that the highlight of your career so far?
(13) We go out on the field together and it’s 26 blokes knocking seven shades out of each other.” The 27-year-old captained his Batley Bulldogs side against their local rivals, the Dewsbury Rams, on Sunday.
(14) Spina bifida was diagnosed in four English Bulldogs and one Collie dog.
(15) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
(16) In order to test whether the use of vascular rings to assess residual vascular function may be a better method, rabbit thoracic aortas were occluded by five types of clamps: a Fogarty softjaw bulldog, a Fogarty Hydragrip, a 6-inch Satinsky clamp, an Edslab bulldog, and a silicone vessel band.
(17) It is a model of temporary intestinal ischemia and consists of occluding both superior mesenteric vessels with a bulldog clamp for varying periods of time.
(18) Even by the seldom conventional standards of the professional football world, the saga of bonuses, offshore bank accounts and a beloved bulldog that has unfolded in the sober confines of Southwark crown court over the last three weeks has been a remarkable one.
(19) Single right coronary artery (CA) associated with pulmonic stenosis was found in 3 English Bulldogs and a Boxer, suggesting a genetic predisposition for the associated anomalies.
(20) Did I skulk in dodgy pubs with bull-necked men with shaved heads and bulldogs?
Rhino
Definition:
(n.) Gold and silver, or money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
(2) The histological and ultrastructural effects following 3 weeks' topical treatment with two agents (all-trans retinoic acid and a new synthetic retinoid-like substance, CD271) were evaluated on the epidermis and the epithelial wall of the pseudocomedones in rhino mouse skin.
(3) We compared swab and scraping (Rhino-probe) technics in the nasal cytology obtention for eosinophils count in 36 patients with a range of 2-46 years old (mean age 18.6 years) with diagnosis of Allergic Rhinitis.
(4) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
(5) On autopsy, rhino-cerebral mucormycosis was demonstrated with a mycotic thrombus involving the left middle cerebral artery.
(6) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
(7) Some say the recent rush for rhino horn emanates from Vietnam, where, a few years ago, rumors circulated that a prominent politician had been cured of cancer by consuming it.
(8) The diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis is therefore based on clinical findings including rhino pharyngeal, pulmonary and renal manifestations.
(9) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
(10) Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
(11) Game rangers have had their arms upgraded to take on the poaching gangs, and the military, operating under an unofficial shoot-to-kill policy, has been brought into Kruger National Park, where hundreds of rhino have been lost.
(12) The report covers the therapeutic results achieved after using cytostatic drugs in 104 patients treated at the 1st Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Univ.
(13) One British theft was from Sworders auction house in Essex in February, when the mounted head of a black rhino was taken the day before it was to be sold.
(14) By the end of September, a record 704 rhinos had been killed by poachers in South Africa and 47 in Kenya this year.
(15) Two cases of odontoma are reported, one lesion being a compound odontoma and the other a complex odontoma, the latter provoking facial pain combined with rhino-sinusal allergic phenomena.
(16) The tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome (TRPS) is a rare congenital disorder, characterized by (1) a peculiar and somewhat pear-shaped nose, (2) sparse and brittle scalp hair, and (3) radiographic evidence of cone-shaped epiphyses of the hands.
(17) One of the elders, who was a senior leader of the Rhino clan, inducted us into his clan with a short ceremony followed by a long speech over the fire, which allowed us to be officially recognised as the first female Masai warriors.
(18) We report an insulin-dependent diabetic patient with rhino-sinuso-orbital mucormycosis, who after being treated with amphotericin B and surgical debridement on two occasions, maintained clinical and tomographic evidence of active infection, and mucoral persistence in the lesion.
(19) Cure followed evisceration and an abbreviated course (215 mg) of amphotericin B. Sporothrix must now be regarded as another fungal agent capable of causing primary rhino-ophthalmic infection similar to Mucor.
(20) South African National Parks' (SANParks) first response to the outbreak of poaching in 2008 was to ramp up conventional ranger patrols in Kruger, home to thousands of rhinos.