(n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.
(v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sue Capon, who runs Brokerswood country park, said everyone was still coming to terms with the tragedy.
(2) When susceptibility to virulent Pasteurella multocida was compared, there was no significant (P greater than 0.05) difference between caponized and uncaponized tom turkeys.
(3) Yet they seem to have trumpeted this exciting new direction in their tax-hunting activities with similar fanfare to that which must have attended the nailing of Capone.
(4) That was all back in the 1920s and 30s, Capone was sent to prison for tax evasion, and the world moved on.
(5) Fibroblasts in the intermediate layer of comb dermis of intact single combed White Leghorn cocks and testosterone-injected capons, all 82 days of age, were divided into three types, namely A, B and C, according to the ultrastructure of these cells.
(6) Unlike Sherwood Forest's finest, however, Capone had a pronounced taste for the good life, wearing smart suits and drinking expensive Templeton Rye whisky.
(7) Caponized, sham-operated, and intact carcasses for analysis totaled, respectively, 28, 25, and 18 in Experiment 1 and 59, 33, and 30 in Experiment 2.
(8) Only when the director persuaded Capone’s heavies that his film was pure fiction did they agree to leave the studio.
(9) Comparing drugs prohibition to the ban on alcohol in 1920s America that gave rise to Al Capone and the mafia, Barton argues that criminalising the trade in drugs has put billions of pounds into the pockets of criminal gangs.
(10) We think of Al Capone, the St Valentine's Day massacre, bootlegging.
(11) Average body weight of caponized turkeys was significantly lower (1.2) than the control turkeys at 30 weeks of age.
(12) Today we often think of Prohibition as a deluded experiment, instinctively associating it with images of Al Capone, the mafia and the Valentine's Day Massacre.
(13) Kevinstar was also generous, also loves Kuma's, and could not be more correct about Chicagoans: "We are much more than Al Capone, Michael Jordan and Oprah".
(14) Depletion of brain regional norepinephrine (NE), dopamine (DA) after alpha methyl-paratyrosine (AMT), and serotonin (5HT) were measured in intact and caponized adult male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica).
(15) Pondering one of the more delicious ironies of 20th century American justice, people always say wryly that they could only pin tax evasion on Al Capone.
(16) Read more Al Capone was the first US gangster to do this.
(17) Neither was there any significant (P greater than 0.05) difference between the surviving caponized and uncaponized toms in the development of serum anti-P. multocida antibody.
(18) The bodyguards of camorra boss Immacolata Capone, who was shot dead in 2004, were dressed like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: bright yellow jumpsuits and cropped blonde hair.
(19) But as with Capone, the law eventually caught up with him.
(20) "S&P complaining about the US budget deficit is like Al Capone dumping on bootleggers," said Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research.
Cockerel
Definition:
(n.) A young cock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(2) But he will also have seen Michael Cockerell's savage documentary on Saturday on How to be a Tory leader.
(3) "It started out as surreal, then people joined in and it sort of faded a bit, but it seemed pretty heartfelt from Rodman's side," Simon Cockerell, a tour guide who attended the game, told Reuters.
(4) Plasma growth hormone (GH) and prolactin concentrations were measured between 1 and 24 weeks of age in both sexes of a laying strain of chickens and from 1 to 9 weeks of age in broiler cockerels.
(5) 50 g of each diet was tube-fed to each of 24 intact and 24 caecectomised cockerels, which had been previously starved for 48 h. Excreta were collected, individually, for 48 h. The concentrations of amino acids in the diets and excreta were determined, and digestibility coefficients calculated.
(6) Hubbard cockerels (2.8 to 3.6 kg) with chronically implanted electromagnetic blood flow probes placed on the celiac artery were used to determine the effect of elevated ambient temperature on postprandial intestinal hyperemia.
(7) In immature cockerels adrenaline administration lowered the levels of plasma growth hormone.
(8) Two series of balance trials were performed with adult cockerels and with broiler chickens during their 5th week of life, and one with adult colostomised hens.
(9) Day-old cockerels were fed either a rachitogenic diet containing no Ca (-D-Ca), 1.4% Ca (-D), or 3% Ca (-DHiCa) and given corn oil (-D groups) or vitamin D3 in corn oil (+D and +D-Ca) p.o.
(10) The magnitude of the response was lower than in the A3V cockerels.
(11) It appears likely that loss of water resulting in osmotic changes during infection is the major reason for the observed changes in prolactin concentration in infected cockerels.
(12) True digestible values were determined with a 48 h excreta collection assay using conventional (CONV) and caecectomized (CEC) cockerels.
(13) Socially housed leghorn cockerels were confined to a heated grid (55, 57, or 59 degrees C, Experiment 1; 59, 61, or 63 degrees C, Experiment 2) and tested at posthatch ages of 14 days (Experiment 1) and 1, 3, 7, or 14 days (Experiment 2).
(14) Lipid infusions had no effect on SCWL cockerels when administered intrajugularly but decreased food intake significantly when infused intrahepatically.
(15) The concentration was very low in untreated cockerels (approximately 0.5 molecule per cell).
(16) Weights for 4-week-old cockerels were maximum when either 1.10% dietary lysine in the 15.6 degrees C. environment or 1.00% dietary lysine in the 29.4 degrees C. environment were fed.
(17) Carcinogen administration accelerates arteriosclerotic plaque development in cockerels, and transforming elements are present in DNA from advanced human plaques.
(18) Activities measured in the abdominal segments were approximately 8-9-fold higher than those measured in thoracic segments from the same cockerels.
(19) All five plaque DNA-associated tumors hybridized to a cockerel genomic probe.
(20) Cockerels of an egg-laying strain were used to study the mode of action of epinephrine on food intake in chickens.