(n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
(n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
(n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the ventrolateral medulla (VLM), PNMT-ir cell bodies were concentrated rostrally and extended from the caudal pole of the facial nucleus to a level posterior to the calamus scriptorius.
(2) The spinal cord was transected at the level of calamus scriptorius either completely (spinal preparation) or partially (funicular preparation).
(3) An ethanol extract of Acorus calamus rhizomes was screened for CNS effects using a battery of 20 tests in rats and mice.
(4) Water soluble dried powder of alcoholic extract of roots and rhizomes of A. calamus L. was used.
(5) Calamus oil, widely used in pharmaceuticals was highly effective.
(6) In its pharmacological properties the studied asarone is identical with asarone obtained from Acorus calamus and Guatteria.
(7) The extract exhibited a large number of actions similar to alpha-asarone (an active principle of A. calamus) but differed from the latter in several other respects including the responses to electroshock, apomorphine- and isolation-induced aggressive behaviour, amphetamine toxicity in aggregated mice, behavioural despair syndrome in forced swimming, etc.
(8) Abnormal feathers, characterized by thinness and increased transparency of the calamus and rachis, and loss of barbs, were induced at a high frequency by inoculating day-old chicks with reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) propagated in chicken-embryo fibroblast (CEF) cultures.
(9) The main fraction, GF-3, separated from SCM-proteins of fowl feather calamus by gel filtration, was separated into seven peaks, C-1 to C-7, by ion exchange chromatography on a DEAE-cellulose column.
(10) Kesari powder, calamus oil, palm drink, toddy and Kewra essence were found to be strongly mutagenic; garlic, palm oil, arrack, onion and pyrolysed portions of bread toast, chicory powder were weakly mutagenic, while tamarind and turmeric were not.
(11) In the ventrolateral medulla, we found that labeled cells extended from the level of the retrofacial nucleus to the calamus scriptorius.
(12) Green naswar of Bannu, grey naswar, red naswar, and the remaining three herbs, namely, Acorous calamus, Azadarachta indica, and Zanthozylum alatum, exhibited no mutagenic activity under the present experimental conditions.
(13) The elution patterns were used to compare the components of different feather parts, barbs, rachis + medulla, and calamus.
(14) labeled cell bodies in the brainstem were confined to the nucleus of the glossopharyngeal-vagal complex, from approximately 1.5 mm caudal to 1.5 mm rostral to the calamus scriptorius (obex).
(15) In all cases, GF-3 was the main fraction and the percentages with respect to the total peak area found for barbs, rachis + medulla, and calamus were about 65%, 74%, and 93%, respectively.
(16) When HRP was injected in the A-V node area, S-A node area, right atrial wall and right ventricular wall, the labeled neurons were principally found in the lateral half of the dorsal motor nucleus (DMN) and in the medial solitary nucleus (MSN), were almost the same in number bilaterally, and were chiefly from the calamus scriptorius to the upper cervical cord.
Quill
Definition:
(n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
(n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.
(n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
(n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen.
(n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
(n.) The tube of a musical instrument.
(n.) Something having the form of a quill
(n.) The fold or plain of a ruff.
(n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
(n.) A hollow spindle.
(v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
(v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(2) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
(3) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(4) Sri Lanka is the main provider of cinnamon, mainly exported as "cinnamon quills."
(5) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(6) Penney, P. Keng, H. Quill, A. Paxhia, S. Derdak, and M. E. Felch.
(7) Even when it summons up the courage to state the bleeding obvious, such as the fact that the Quill, a risible block of student housing next to the Shard, is poorly designed, Cabe is ignored.
(8) Thanks to Quill,” he says, “in a few years’ time no one will have to waste time deciphering an Excel worksheet or interpreting graphs with x and y axes ... Quill and its successors will hoover up indigestible data and transform them into clear, simple text which will enable everyone to get the message, quite naturally, through language.” Hammond was in the limelight recently, having claimed that by 2025 90% of the news read by the general public would be generated by computers.
(9) The Quill Location: Southwark | Floors: 31 | Height: 109m | Architect: SPARRC | Status: approved | Use: student accommodation The Quill What would a building look like if it had a fight with a gigantic porcupine, and the porcupine won?
(10) Images of proposed future projects, such as the Quill in Bermondsey and 1 Merchant Square in Paddington , suggest little improvement in the future.
(11) The journalists who never sleep Read more The company’s key product is Quill, a natural-language generation platform.
(12) He is convinced that this is the start of a big adventure for Quill.
(13) Quill starts by importing data (tables, lists, graphs) structured by other software.
(14) You can get some idea by looking at plans for the Quill, a great silver cliff-face of a thing that will sport a broken assortment of spines on its top.
(15) He sees the stories generated by Narrative Science’s programme, Quill, as a way of augmenting and personalising news, of making it relevant to individual needs.
(16) Methods used to produce wounds included insertion of porcupine quills, application of constrictive rubber bands, mascara injections and excoriation of healing wounds.
(17) Now, thanks to Quill, it does it for more than 5,000 corporations,” Hammond reveals.
(18) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
(19) Director Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL), Queen’s University Belfast.
(20) At every point there has to be – here’s why I said this.” Like many human journalists, Quill began life by writing ad-hoc film reviews.