(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.