(n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
Example Sentences:
(1) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
(2) It was first occupied by James Cumyne, the burgh medical officer.
(3) Relationships between cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and breathlessness, a definition of chronic bronchitis, and pulmonary function are investigated among men in two employed populations (17,717 London civil servants and 4904 Scottish workers) and in two communities (844 men in Tecumseh, Michigan and 6859 men in Renfrew and Paisley Burghs, Scotland).
(4) He enjoyed the debate elicited by his De Burgh "echo jam": "Some called it complete garbage, others said it changed their life.
(5) As part of a general health screening survey in the Burgh of Renfrew blood pressure was measured in 3,001 subjects (78.8% of those eligible) aged 45 to 64.
(6) The Windmill Restaurant at 46 High Street, Burgh-Le-Marsh (01754 810281, windmillrestaurant.co.uk ) has main courses from £10.
(7) Art Deco Burgh Island Hotel reached by sea tractor when the tide is in.
(8) Renfrew and Paisely, adjacent burghs in urban west Scotland.
(9) Her work repeatedly returns to Devon – to Burgh Island in Evil under the Sun , to the Majestic Hotel (the Imperial in Torquay) in The Body in the Library and in Peril at End House , to Churston Station.
(10) After a lunch of strong tea and fish and chips in Mablethorpe, where children can jump on a small fleet of donkeys (and we gambled a plastic cupload of pennies in the amusement arcade), we dined out at the Windmill restaurant in Burgh-Le-Marsh, a few miles inland from Skegness.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Group G. Germany – Chris De Burgh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris De Burgh’s hits include the worldwide smash The Lady in Red, a No1 in 1986.
(12) Most of the country's top performers at the London 2012 Olympics – including gold-medal swimmers Chad le Clos and Cameron van der Burgh, and double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, whose career has been suspended due to his trial for murder – are also white.
(13) Yes, it's Chris de Burgh's a cappella version of You'll Never Walk Alone: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bearing in mind that a fair few chants are adapted from those on the hit parade rather than the other way round – so we're not thinking Hibs' Sunshine in Leith or Bristol City's Drink Up Thee Cyder – any more for any more?
(14) One asked: “Are you Chris de Burgh?” “I can be if you want me to be,” he replied.
(15) Like many other old, urban working-class neighbourhoods, the burgh of Govan, on the western side of Glasgow , has been diminished by the failure of Tory and Labour administrations to step in when help was needed most.
(16) Urine tests for antituberculosis drugs (invariably PAS) were performed in only 6 of 25 Burghs and 5 of 14 Counties, and were done infrequently in them.
(17) • The Glasgow School of Art in Dunoon 2014 exhibition runs until 26 July at Dunoon Burgh Hall .
(18) Racing in the same lane four of the pool in which Cameron van der Burgh set the previous record on the way to Olympic gold in 2012, Peaty glided to the finish in a new mark of 57.92sec, taking 0.54sec off the South African’s time.
(19) The subtleties and delicate snubs of Emma or of Lady Catherine de Burgh in Pride and Prejudice were foreign in the extreme.
(20) Via his YouTube alias, sunsetcorp , there was his version – or "echo jam", as Lopatin labels it – of Chris de Burgh's ghastly 80s hit Lady in Red, which used various synth and looping techniques to transform it into a work of such disarming, heart-rending beauty that it prompted comments ranging from "the single greatest experience I have ever had" to "the sole reason YouTube should exist".
Mound
Definition:
(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(3) In reduction mammaplasty by the inferior pedicle technique, the dermal-breast pedicle can be manipulated to form a central breast mound and enhance breast projection.
(4) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(5) A tongue-shaped flap of the fat and the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, approximately 7 cm in length, is pulled up, gathered, and inserted to reconstruct the breast mound.
(6) With the exception of poor Jose Valverde, the Tigers pitching recovered in Game Two once that Verlander guy was out of the way, and so at least that side of the game seems to be in a better place for Detroit, especially with the Animal, Anibal Sanchez on the mound tonight.
(7) Next to the pupil there was often a perceptible mound, presumably representing the iris sphincter.
(8) Sperm were not transported into the cloacae of artificially inseminated, anesthetized females without prior administration of norepinephrine to their cloacal mounds.
(9) Treated areas become covered with irregular mounds of RPE cells within seven days.
(10) Conservatively, I’d estimate that 90% of my time was spent making my students do colouring in while I sat in an impossibly tiny chair, with my knees around my ears, silently dreading the inedible mound of uncategorised meat that would invariably pass for that day’s lunch.
(11) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
(12) Reconstruction of the breast after super-radical mastectomy is difficult because not only a breast mound but also the subclavicular and anterior axillary regions must be reconstructed simultaneously.
(13) Individual cysts were found to be lined by a single layer of epithelial cells in most areas, with focal polyps and mounds of cells principally in collecting duct cysts.
(14) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
(15) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
(16) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
(17) Scanning electron microscopy revealed small mound-like lesions protruding from an intact endothelium in birds treated with an initiating dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (Me2BA) followed by twice weekly injections of the alpha 1-selective adrenergic agonist methoxamine for 20 weeks.
(18) Breast reconstruction has become such a commonplace procedure over the last ten years that we as plastic surgeons are no longer content to simply create a mound.
(19) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(20) The argon laser caused a gradual mounding up of iris pigment epithelium with each successive energy application before final penetration.