(n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
(n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
(n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
(n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
(n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
(n.) To rail at; to scold.
(v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
(2) The euro clawed back some losses after the European Central Bank said it would absorb €16.5bn from the money markets to compensate for bond purchases up to 14 May, and Greece said it would receive the first tranche of emergency loans tomorrow.
(3) The carbohydrate compounds of the mucus of flask cells in the kidney of claw-frogs (Xenopus laevis) were studied by gold marked lectins (WGA, RCA, L, LCA, HPA, PNA).
(4) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
(5) The object of this study was to examine the effects of exogenous and endogenous prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on the sexual behavior of female South African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis.
(6) I used to love jumping into the mosh pit, then climbing back on stage with red claw marks all over my body."
(7) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
(8) Stable claws develop in animals housed on floors with soft surfaces or under restricted movement.
(9) A novel and important observation made is that the different caffeine treatments affected the staining by alizarin of both claws and bones in a qualitatively and quantitatively similar manner.
(10) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
(11) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
(12) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
(13) Treatment utilized partial proximal phalangeal resection, with and without silicone single-stem implants, extensor hallucis longus tendon transfer to the great toe metatarsal, and interphalangeal joint arthrodesis, or tenodesis of the great toe to correct clawing.
(14) Tadpoles at stage 50 could regenerate toes and claws without defect, but in the later the regenerative capacity gradually declined by reducing the number of toes and claws and accompanied by malformation of skeleton as the stage proceeded.
(15) I am expert in navigating the systems, on clawing my way to some work and juggling the admin to stay in that work.
(16) Apart from plantar and palmar insensitivity which accounted for 17.91% and 17.24% of all deformities, the most frequent deformities were mobile claw hand 12.94%, plantar ulcers 10.78% and palmar ulcers 5.97% respectively.
(17) Then, just as the world starts to claw its way back to some kind of normality, they start kicking the props away.
(18) In medico cubital paralysis one must also cure the "cubital claw of the thumb".
(19) Bill Shorten has used the ALP conference to claw back some authority I Lenore Taylor Read more While the notion of a federal Icac has won support in the past from independents such Tony Windsor and senator Nick Xenophon, the major parties have shown a distinct lack of appetite for such a body.
(20) A claw amputation was performed because of the advanced destructive nature of the lesion.
Nipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, nips.
(n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
(n.) A satirist.
(n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
(n.) The cunner.
(n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
Example Sentences:
(1) When I meet Jean-Pierre (who is 63) and Luc (a mere nipper at 60) in a hotel in Paris, it is a few weeks before this year’s festival, where their latest picture, Two Days, One Night , will compete – though ultimately fail – to win a record-breaking third.
(2) According to Indigenous belief, Mick Rhatigan, a former policeman and linesman, and his two Aboriginal workers, Joe Wynn and Nipper, attacked the camp of another black man, Hopples, and shot dead eight occupants.
(3) Francis Barraud painted Nipper in 1898, and sold the painting and the rights to the Gramophone Company two years later for £100.
(4) According to this version, Wynn and Nipper attacked, using Rhatigan’s guns and horses, but without his knowledge.
(5) When prime minister Tony Blair refused to go on the programme, Liddle archly pointed out that the programme, despite 40 requests, had interviewed Tony Blair as often as "we've interviewed Osama bin Laden, Lord Lucan, and Nipper the skateboarding duck".
(6) The advertising strapline we created which sat alongside the iconic image of "Nipper" listening to the gramophone was "Top Dog for Music" and that's exactly what HMV was with record companies kowtowing to this all-powerful retailer, offering up millions of their own money to contribute to HMV's "co-operative" advertising.
(7) Rhatigan was released because he was found not to be involved, while an initial murder charge against Nipper was dropped when Aboriginal witnesses disappeared.
(8) Armchair executives may well say that HMV should have come up with a decent digital strategy earlier (these days, Nipper the dog would not be perched by a gramophone but plugged into an i-Something via a pair of white earbuds).
(9) The 90-year-old retailer, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, has been hammered by the recession as well as online and supermarket competition.
(10) As the reaction to HMV's demise has shown, the brand, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, still holds a cachet for many people.
(11) "It really is the end of an era," said Leonard "Nipper" Read, the Scotland Yard detective who successfully pursued the robbers.
(12) Bruce Reynolds often pondered on this and would remark how “Nipper” Read, the dogged detective who tracked down the Great Train Robbers, told them he reckoned they would have done it even if they had known they were going to get caught.
(13) On the other hand, as "Nipper" Read [the detective who was part of the team that investigated the robbery] said about us, perhaps they would have carried it out even if they had known that they would get caught.
(14) And if one of your nippers was his pupil, I think you would feel the same.
(15) It was taken advantage of this situation to remove the larvae with a pair of nippers.
(16) And he referred to Nipper Read's reflection that, perhaps, the Great Train Robbers would have carried out the robbery even if they had known that they were going to get caught.
(17) Part of that, even now, is down to the charm of that iconic logo, Nipper the dog listening intently to the gramophone, which inspired the His Master's Voice name back when Victoria was on the throne.
(18) Newly-erupted human third molars were fractured buccolingually with heavy-gauge industrial nippers or sectioned mesiodistally with a Leitz saw microtome and fixed in glutaraldehyde.
(19) 2.19pm BST Before Prince George was born, my colleague Josh Halliday wandered around London asking people if they recognised royal babies of the past and what they felt the new nipper should be called.
(20) Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice.