(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.
Pelt
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
(n.) The human skin.
(n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
(v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
(v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile.
(v. i.) To throw missiles.
(v. i.) To throw out words.
(n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Example Sentences:
(1) After euthanasia and removal of the pelts, liver and kidney samples were collected from 174 mink and analyzed for 22 elements using inductively coupled argon plasma emission spectroscopy.
(2) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(3) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(4) After rising employment has failed to lift output as far as hoped, this reflects waning hopes about the potential of the UK economy once restored to full pelt.
(5) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
(6) Social status within a cage explained only 3.6% of the pelt quality variation while it could explain 52% of the BW variation.
(7) Allergenic components of cat pelt extract fractionated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes were identified using sera from 15 allergic patients who showed positive skin test and RAST to cat extract.
(8) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
(9) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
(10) In one incident in Jerusalem last month, an Israeli motorist was killed after his car was pelted with stones.
(11) United bite back and Rafael skitters down the right wing at full pelt, before sending a cross into the Stretford End.
(12) Also mass very positively (p less than 0.001) correlated with pelt quality (r = 0.82), indicating that the subjectively estimated pelt quality, in fact, can be derived directly from its weight.
(13) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
(14) Enthusiasts could ski to St Anton for a few runs and a Jägerbomb in the Krazy Kanguruh before pelting back for tea.
(15) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
(16) A. C. Jacobs, J. Venema, R. Leeven, H. van Pelt-Heerschap, and F. K. de Graaf, J. Bacteriol.
(17) According to local reports in Florida, two Muslim women in the Tampa Bay area were attacked after leaving prayer meetings – one was shot at and the other almost driven off the road and her car pelted with stones.
(18) This week he took great delight in cross-examining Robert Jan van Pelt, a Dutch architectural historian who is an authority on the gas chambers.
(19) The democracy march finished at the Field of Mars, where a sanctioned gay pride rally last summer ended with participants being beaten and pelted with eggs by anti-gay activists, and dozens of were detained by police.
(20) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.