(n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
(v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
(v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.
Example Sentences:
(1) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
(2) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
(3) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
(4) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
(5) A harpist takes a break from busking in a bustling Carmarthen shopping street to discuss two of his great passions: music and politics.
(6) I put on my performance face, threw my head back, and enjoyed myself – but safe in the knowledge that standing beside me on my right hand side was a man with decades of busking experience and a natural affinity with the crowd.
(7) I had always wanted to try busking but found the idea daunting – especially doing it alone.
(8) Updated at 11.10am BST 10.57am BST And now, it's time for Ed Miliband.... Jon Snow is just busking for a moment or two ahead of Ed Miliband coming on to the stage.
(9) "I had to have six frets on my guitar replaced – they were completely worn out from busking to the signing queue.
(10) In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand.
(11) You started busking at the age of 15 and developed a street persona called Lippo.
(12) It didn't help that the Sunday before our busking "date", disaster struck; I lost my voice.
(13) The voice When you're busking, you're competing with the noise of the street, the traffic, and you're trying to get the attention of people who are in a hurry.
(14) They were busking and making good money, so Heaton was shocked when he learned they were all quitting to go to university.
(15) In 1968, aged 17, I quit school (in Ontario, Canada) and hitchhiked all over north America, busking and staying with people I met.
(16) We were still in a small room, effectively busking a script, but it was starting to grow.
(17) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian "So it's OK, for example, to sit around as long as you are in a cafe or in a designated place where certain restful activities such as drinking a frappucino should take place but not activities like busking, protesting or skateboarding.
(18) There were storytellers, drawing lessons, and an area for busking and debating.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benjamin Zephaniah in Lincolnshire: ‘I miss the multiculturalism of London.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian There’s a wonderful little town where I live and I love the independent shops, old-fashioned sweet shops run by little old ladies, an entertainer on the street just for the sake of it, not necessarily busking.
(20) After six years, I moved back to Canada, busking again and earning enough to pay my rent.
Musk
Definition:
(n.) A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.
(n.) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).
(n.) The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.
(n.) The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
(n.) A plant of the genus Erodium (E. moschatum); -- called also musky heron's-bill.
(n.) A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
(v. t.) To perfume with musk.
Example Sentences:
(1) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(2) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
(3) Musk declared the spacecraft a big leap forward in technology.
(4) Musk shrews (Suncus murinus) were maintained for 8 weeks in long (16 h light:8 h darkness) or short (8 h light:16 h darkness) daylengths.
(5) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
(6) Successful photosensitization was achieved only when the nuchal skin was stripped with scotch tape before application of musk ambrette and ultraviolet radiation.
(7) The company’s exuberant chief operating officer, Bibop Gresta (who also takes the title “chief bibop officer”) listed all the ways his plan built on Musk’s.
(8) Chaffin’s sources say that, even as Elon Musk’s electronic car firm Tesla Motors is stealing away record numbers of employees from Apple , the house the Steves built is hiring Tesla employees right back – and specifically, “the kind of people from Tesla with expertise that is most suited to cars”.
(9) Musk said the software was progressing, but that he had run into difficulties on the road in California.
(10) The histochemical study of the Ear of female Suncus murinus (Indian musk shrew) was studied by the use of the cholinesterase technique.
(11) A substantial improvement in the rate of detection of organic lesions affecting the olfactory pathway can be achieved by substituting odours such as musk ketone, exaltolide, linalyl acetate and coumarin for those in current use.
(12) Speaking in at an event in San Francisco , Musk, who is expected to unveil the new Tesla D car later on Thursday, rejected the idea.
(13) 1, the time course for the photoperiodic response in juvenile male musk shrews was examined by exposing animals to short (10L:14D) or long (14L:10D or 18L:6D) daylengths for 10, 20, 40 or 56 days.
(14) Trump may have missed Dimon’s buried critique, but he won’t have missed Dimon’s signature alongside fellow councilmembers Musk and Iger, who joined a total of 30 other business leaders in sending a letter to the president that begins: “We are writing to express our strong support for the United States remaining in the Paris climate agreement.” “Based on our vast experience doing business all over the world, we believe there is strong potential for negative trade implications if the United States exits from the Paris agreement,” they wrote.
(15) The most frequent positive reactions were to chlorpromazine (13 patients), musk ambrette (nine patients), and promethazine (eight patients).
(16) Musk said last month that the Model 3 would be unveiled next spring, with production to begin in 2017.
(17) Only ACB produced classical musk-like UAO (UAO + ve) in an in vitro odour-producing system with 29% being UAO -ve.
(18) Genetically conditioned polymorphism of alpha-amylases in musk ducks, domestic ones and their hybrids has been described.
(19) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk introduces the Model X.