(n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
(n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
(n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
(v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(2) "I said it's got nothing to do with a bung," he explained.
(3) The femoral medullary cavity is plugged with a bone core taken from the excised femoral head or with a polyethylene bung.
(4) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
(5) In fact, the City of London police investigation centred not on bungs but on what the force has said was alleged money-laundering.
(6) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
(7) A document showing that former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks personally authorised a cash payment for a story was not disclosed to police investigating whether staff at her paper were paying bungs to public officials for tipoffs, a jury has heard.
(8) (lacovitti, L., M. I. Johnson, T. H. Joh, and R. P. Bunge (1982) Neuroscience 7:2225-2239).
(9) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
(10) E. sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge, E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey., E. qrzewaskiistaqs E. monosperma Gmel.
(11) Stellate astrocytes might therefore represent mature astrocytes in vivo (Ard and Bunge: J. Neurosci.
(12) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
(13) For example, bonuses of 200% have become routine; but why do so many companies use such rough and ready round numbers – hardly a sign that anybody has thought carefully about what is needed to produce performance and much more like a pure bung – and then accompany them with requirements for their eligibility that are far from demanding and transparent?
(14) Anyway, if there is a good time to get caught paying bungs, this wasn’t it, what with US president Donald Trump already hinting that he may have pharmaceuticals companies in his sights over drug pricing.
(15) In addition to new impulses initiated by Paracelsus, the author emphasizes the clinical and experimental studies pursued, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, by such scientists as Thomas Sydenham, Justus von Liebig, Carl von Voit and Gustav von Bunge.
(16) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
(17) An original bank The problem with “challenger” banks, it is often said, is that they attract the most challenging customers – ie those who are happy to switch their current accounts for a year for £100, then depart in search of the next bung.
(18) Or are the terrestrial services bunged up with clowns like in the UK, and you're giving them the bodyswerve?
(19) It is not as if his windfall had come from secretly manipulating the Libor rate or getting a bung for fixing a Fifa vote.
(20) When these date were compared to RGC survival and axon growth on SC (Baehr and Bunge: Exp.
Dung
Definition:
() of Ding
(n.) The excrement of an animal.
(v. t.) To manure with dung.
(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
(3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
(4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
(5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
(6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
(7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
(8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
(9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
(10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
(11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
(13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
(14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
(15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
(16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
(17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
(18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
(19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
(20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.