(v. t.) To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
(n.) A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
(n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her voice, never her strong point, seemed to have gained in power, and she matched Paul Newman and Burl Ives blow for blow.
(2) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(3) Whether you’re into Dusty’s Deep Cut reggae, minimal electronics, symphonic pop, Texas blues, Japanese noise, power electronics, children’s music, christmas music, Raymond Scott, or Burl Ives, I guarantee there is an online community where you can connect with other enthusiasts to indulge the minute specificity of your tastes.
(4) Of course, injuries to key players like Carlos Bocanegra, Bobby Burling and Marvin Chavez, handicapped Chivas USA, but Cabrera’s decision to give his older players - Mauro Rosales, Tony Lochhead and Oswaldo Minda – a rest after a taxing stretch of road games backfired, with his side short of structure.
(5) Extending over 250 hectares (617 acres), the park revolves around the Rinconada hippodrome, a horse racetrack built in the 50s by Californian architect Arthur Froehlich that, with the surrounding gardens designed by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle-Marx, was once emblematic of the oil-rich nation's wealth.
(6) I don’t think she demonstrated it in the race against [Barack] Obama in 2008,” Burling said, adding that Sanders would contrast with Clinton because “he can speak with unfettered passion”.
(7) The warden of Angola prison, Burl Cain, has spoken out in forthright terms against a system that mandates punishment without any chance of rehabilitation.
(8) This interesting feature is conserved in the crystal structures of other thiazole nucleosides [Burling & Goldstein (1992).
(9) So I was really happy when Carlos Burle went and rode another big wave there this October; he's saying it was bigger than mine, more than 100ft.
(10) I don’t think you’ll find the socialist wing of the Democratic Party is that big, contrary to what Republicans might think.” Peter Burling, a former New Hampshire state senator, longtime Democratic party leader and a Clinton supporter, said Sanders might have an advantage over her in the amount of passion he can deliver.
(11) The Earth Island Institute is advising the law firm Covington & Burling, which filed the latest lawsuit in San Francisco on behalf of the plaintiffs.
(12) They were all so desperate to see if they could talk to the great man," said resident Peter Burling, who lived a few doors down from Salinger for 44 years.
(13) The fittings are finished in “maple burl gloss” and “antique bronze”.
(14) "You've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night," says Warden Burl Cain, a committed evangelist who believes that the rehabilitation of convicts is only possible through Christian redemption.
(15) It evokes Roberto Burle Marx's wave-patterned promenade along Copacabana beach: a rigid, northern European version.
(16) The archaeologist Aubrey Burl, an authority on prehistoric stone circles, said: “There could be something in it.
Mottled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Mottle
(a.) Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Correction of structure mottle helps enhance the image clarity.
(2) Middle component particles of bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) containing small protein subunits with a cleaved C terminus were used to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs).
(3) From the children examined (n = 83; 49 boys and 34 girls; mean age, 13 years and 5 months), 74% exhibited mottled enamel in a slight to moderate degree.
(4) It is known that the copper concentration and copper-containing enzyme activity are low in cerebrum of mottled mice as well as of patients with Menkes' disease.
(5) A 2-year-old boy had intermittent pain and mottling of the left thigh.
(6) The remaining white patterning factor, mottled white (Mo), is sex linked and is assumed to be genetically unrelated to pinto.
(7) The other patient showed patchy choroidal ischemia with subsequent development of wedge-shaped areas of pigmentary atrophy and mottling in the midperiphery.
(8) A family is reported in which 11 members presented epidermolysis bullosa simplex with some unusual features, and 10 of whom had congenital mottled hyper- and hypopigmentation of the skin.
(9) It usually presents as a destructive lesion with diffuse mottled calcification.
(10) The outer wall layer showed a mottled appearance between two electron-dense boundaries of different thickness.
(11) New information is presented on the analysis of bean yellow mosaic virus amino terminal epitopes as well as on the identification of amino terminal antigenic determinants shared between strains of bean yellow mosaic virus and pepper mottle virus.
(12) The brindled mottled mutant mouse, a model of Menkes' disease, has alterations in copper homeostasis which cause, among other sequelae, neuronal degeneration in selected areas of brain.
(13) The chest X-ray film of a girl with cystic fibrosis (CF) showed slowly increasing mottled densities during the 6th and 7th year of her life.
(14) The fried and cooked meat of the most culinary portions of the Tagil variety undergo a more complete hydrolysis by comparison with black-mottled cattle meat.
(15) In hormone-free cells the receptor distributes in a mottled pattern throughout all planes of the nucleus.
(16) These included retrograde hepatic venous opacification on the early bolus scans and a diffusely mottled pattern of hepatic enhancement seen only during the vascular phase of contrast administration.
(17) An inflammatory blush, slow emptying of vessels and a mottled nephrogram with loss of cortical definition are highly suggestive signs of renal inflammation.
(18) The entire fundus showed a mottled appearance characterized by mixture of fine granular pigmentation and depigmentation associated with patchy depigmentation in the periphery.
(19) Disseminated, non homogenous bronchial lines and mottled shadows often with swollen hilar lymphnodes in 46% of all patients.--2.
(20) Another possibility is that the fibrotic matrix in which the surviving cells in the mottled infarct are distributed may contribute to an increase in extracellular resistance as compared to normal myocardium.