(n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.
(n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) But knowing that you have to stick to the facts of what the Celts wore, or how the Tudors treated illness, concentrates the mind.
(2) Bronze objects of Western European (Scottish, Irish) origin, found in Viking graves widely distributed in Norway, have been taken as evidence of Vikings returning with loot (including a number of Celts) from Western Viking settlements.
(3) The matter was cleared up with the help of a neck chain that was a precursor to the torques worn by the Celts; thus the skeleton was about 2500 years old.
(4) The cape was a sacred location for Celts, Greeks and Romans.
(5) Waves of immigrants, from the Celts through the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans to the Dutch in the 17th century, Germans in the 18th and 19th, Russian and German Jews fleeing persecution in the 1890s and 1930s, West Indians, Cypriots, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and many others coming to Britain during the disintegration of the empire, and many, many more, have all made their contribution to our multicultural identity.
(6) Cranioplasty with bone allografts dates from the Stone Age Celts.
(7) No relationship was noted between the growth potential of megakaryocyte progenitors and platelet count, number of CD4+ celts, platelet response to azidothymidine, and platelet count 7 days after culture.
(8) His major works on the "primitive" Celts and Germans continue these critiques of racism.
(9) "If you do the history, the Celts are the ancient Britons.
(10) Differences in constitution to the southern neighbours, Celts and Romans, were not so marked, that constitutional changes in Germany, especially in southern Germany, in the middle ages can be explained by mixed race.
(11) Celts, Norwegians and Swedes all have higher incidences of melanoma than people of similar skin colour living in the same latitude.
(12) I think I can speak for the vast majority of petty celts, Christopher, when I say that should USA triumph tonight, Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore, Tim Howard and chums will never have to buy a drink in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland again.
(13) Scraping away at the green patina on the new-look, Zac Goldsmith-inspired Conservative environmental policies, puncturing Brown's grumpy greenery and unpicking the carbon contortions of the coal-loving Celts.
(14) The mixed Europeans had a somewhat greater increase in the melanocyte population density following exposure to sunlight than the Celts.
(15) But the idea that it makes Celts more inclined to bend the knee to Whitehall is absurd.
(16) The 268 cases and 1577 controls showed odds ratios of 1.9 for red hair, 2.0 for skin that burns in the sun, and no difference between indoor and outdoor workers or between Celts and other Europeans, consistent with the results of more recent studies.
(17) Biochemical assays indicate that a cel structural gene (celT) specifies a single transport protein that is a beta-glucoside specific enzyme of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system.
(18) It is also a fascinating meditation on the complexity of the Scots character, half Celt, half Saxon.
(19) Rudeness about Celts may be a political parlour game in London, sometimes justified.
(20) Objectives of current studies are the determination of relationships between performance on CELTs and performance on traditional cognitive abilities tests and the exploration of predictive value of measures of learning ability for academic performance.
Colt
Definition:
(n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
(n.) A young, foolish fellow.
(n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
(v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
(v. t.) To horse; to get with young.
(v. t.) To befool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its current troubles are in part due to the fact that Colt lost out on the M4 US army contract to FN Herstal in 2013.
(2) Complete esophageal impaction developed when the colt ate solid material.
(3) A yearling Quarter Horse colt was examined because of intermittent esophageal obstruction.
(4) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
(5) A 6-month-old Appaloosa colt had a deviation of the premaxilla and nasal septum as well as a dorsal hump of the nasal bone and maxillomandibular malocclusion.
(6) Tebow signed for the Jets in March 2012 , after it became clear that the Broncos – who he had rescued from a 1-4 start to 2011 and taken to an 8-8 finish and a playoff run that was ended by the Patriots – would sign the Indianapolis Colts great Peyton Manning.
(7) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
(8) But his capacity to digest playbooks is unrivalled – allowing Manning to lead the Colts offence in a way quite unlike other NFL quarterbacks: operating almost exclusively without a huddle and calling his plays at the line.
(9) The monkey finally off their back, Manning and the Colts would return to the Super Bowl three years later, though this time they would be defeated by Drew Brees and the underdog New Orleans Saints.
(10) For instance, Colt Defence sells a lot of guns for military purposes.
(11) Although retention times by all colts were similar, cold-housed colts digested more ADF and less phosphorus (P) than did warm-housed colts (P less than .05).
(12) New England Patriots 43-22 Indianapolis Colts - as it happened
(13) The colt had undergone surgical correction of a ruptured urinary bladder at 4 days of age, and a 5-cm tear through one of the previous scars was identified and repaired during exploratory celiotomy.
(14) Rams 21-0 Colts OK, so hands up who saw this one coming?
(15) Almost instantly it seems the Patriots are in a three down hole, Brady connects with Amendola for a fresh set of downs, while time is starting to be the enemy for the Colts.
(16) 3.33am GMT Colts 22-29 Patriots, 2:20, 3rd quarter Huge three and out for the Patriots, Luck gets sacked by Jamie Collins for a loss of eight yards and then he throws two straight incompletions.
(17) Having previously started every one of the Colts' games since being drafted in 1998, he would go on to miss the entire 2011 season.
(18) Clinical signs consisted of dyspnea and dysphagia attributable to cranial cervical hematoma in one colt and to intra-abdominal hemorrhage resulting in death of the second colt.
(19) Incredible scenes in Indianapolis, where the Colts have now completed a 28-point comeback to beat the Chiefs.
(20) It certainly felt that way midway through the Colts' next postseason meeting with the Patriots – the AFC Championship game on 21 January 2007.