(n.) An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
(n.) The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
(n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below.
(v. i.) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
(v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
(n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fibre of carrot and cabbage was similarly composed of nearly equal amounts of neutral and acidic polysaccharides, whereas pea-hull fibre had four times as much neutral as acidic polysaccharides.
(2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(3) The aim of this study was to follow the changes in the levels of nitrates and nitrites throughout the process of fermentation of sauerkraut from white and red cabbage and red beets.
(4) The cabbage seed inhibitor was a 10-Kd monomeric protein with intrachain disulfide bonds.
(5) It includes a reference to Banks's puzzling repeated insistence in media interviews that he "did not come up the river in a cabbage boat".
(6) Nothing in the process of picture-making can be certain, but it would be reasonable to assume that she sees a young man aged 23 or 24 standing a few feet away with a brush in his hand (such a delicate implement compared with a knife fit for cabbage stalks) and dabbing at a piece of canvas or board which is the picture's preparatory sketch.
(7) The ds-RNA induced by TYMV infection in the nuclei of infected Chinese cabbage leaf cells became labelled with [32P]phosphate most rapidly before production of virus could be detected.
(8) If the thought of eating fermented cabbage makes you squirm, then perhaps you're not ready for it – but plenty of others are.
(9) Recovery data were obtained by fortifying 5 different crops (apples, broccoli, cabbages, cauliflower, and potatoes) at 0.05 and 0.5 ppm.
(10) The pyrimidine analogues 2-thiouracil, 2-thiouridine, 6-azauracil and 6-azauridine all inhibited the synthesis of turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV) and increased the synthesis of empty virus protein shells in infected Chinese cabbage leaf discs.
(11) A statistically significant inverse relationship was found between the risk of skin cancer and a high intake of fish (p = 0.05); vegetables in general (p < 0.001); beans, lentils, or peas (p < 0.001), carrots, silverbeet (Swiss chard), or pumpkin (p < 0.001); cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, brussel sprouts, or broccoli) (p < 0.001); and beta-carotene- and vitamin C-containing foods (p = 0.004).
(12) The growth of Leuconostoc citrovorum ML 34, an isolate associated with the malo-lactic fermentation of wine, was stimulated in part by grape, orange, cabbage, and tomato juices.
(13) High concentrations of PCNB were detected in river water near an area of cabbage cultivation.
(14) Customers prefer Guatemalan vegetables because "they are bigger, cleaner and last longer" than local produce, says market seller Pedro Antonio Morales as he sprinkles the broccoli, cabbage, cucumber and tomatoes with water to combat the afternoon heat.
(15) When the amount of Zn in the meals was taken into account a slightly higher absorption was observed from the white-bread meal compared with the meals with potatoes and cabbage, while no differences were seen between the vegetable meals.
(16) Sludge-grown cabbage-treated quail exhibited liver GST activities significantly higher (P less than 0.05) than levels of liver GST in birds fed the other plants, with a further twofold activity increase in quail fed the soil-grown cabbage.
(17) The yeast flora of the majority of studied plants is diverse and comprises 10--20 species (in cabbage, potato, linden, aspen, and pear trees).
(18) Flatus production can be lowered by reducing fermentable carbohydrates such as beans, cabbage, lentils, brussel sprouts, and legumes.
(19) For Brie cheese, MLA, MDA, MMLA, and Dominguez Rodriguez isolation agar were superior for recovering L. monocytogenes; GBNTSA, MDA, MMLA, and Donnelly's Listeria enrichment agar were best for recovering the organism from cabbage.
(20) These clones were transcribed to give 6.3 kb capped ssRNA which infects Chinese cabbages to give symptoms indistinguishable from those produced by the parental viruses.
Rifle
Definition:
(v. i.) To commit robbery.
(v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
(v. t.) To strip; to rob; to pillage.
(v. t.) To raffle.
(v. i.) To raffle.
(n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
(n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
(n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
(v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
(v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
(2) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(3) Types of weapons involved included handguns (48%), shotguns (22%), rifles (17%), unspecified weapon (12%), and air rifle (1%).
(4) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(5) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(6) Deaths due to air rifles are extremely rare; only four other cases were found in the recent English-language literature.
(8) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
(9) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(10) Armed with an assault rifle, he then allegedly headed into two poor villages in Kandahar province, the Taliban's heartland, and went on a murderous rampage in which six people were also injured.
(11) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(12) Officers took up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks and scanned the terrain through rifle scopes and binoculars.
(13) That proposal, similar to a Senate measure backed by the National Rifle Association, would let the attorney general delay a gun purchase by a suspected terrorist for three days, and let law enforcement officials ask a judge to block the purchase altogether.
(14) It can also be seen as a comment on the NSA debate, with Samantha gleefully rifling through Theodore's emails.
(15) Two men in a car tried to drive into the parking lot, jumped out with automatic rifles.
(16) A Royal Military police officer who was attached to the Rifles regiment, Pritchard had been put on duty at an observation post in the Sangin area of Helmand province, where the Taliban had fought hard for control.
(17) And with every heartbeat the blood was pumping up in the air from my thigh.” A man pointed a rifle at his head and threatened to finish him off.
(18) Via al-Aan correspondent Jenan Moussa: Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) I asked a rebel sniper in #Syria : Drop ur rifle for a day & document life through lens of a camera.
(19) Heller called Bundy’s militia supporters, many of whom had trained semi-automatic rifles on government rangers during the stand-off, “patriots”; now his spokesman is saying that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr Bundy’s appalling and racist statements”.
(20) ", but nothing helped, there was so much other noise – both the helicopter above us and the bastard's rifle.