(n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore it may be assumed that it is rather a random finding and that it is a type of clew-like nerve ending.
(2) Darren Clews, who was Daniel's headteacher at Little Heath primary, has left the school and is now in charge of Grangehurst, also in Coventry.
(3) The most frequent is thin and sinous, sometimes forming clews, or loose basket-like arrangement around presumed nerve cells.
(4) This enables the angiographic laminae vascularis, which define the sulci in a "semi-direct" manner, to be used a kind of "Ariadne's clew" to identify cortical structures on RMI sections.
(5) The ultrastructural characteristics of the branched-axon and clew-like corpuscles, however, were not reported.
(6) The sensory nerve endings were divided into the following groups: free endings and arborizations, spray-like endings, seven types of clew-like nerve endings, and Pacinian corpuscles.
(7) You’re likely to be the only soul swimming in this tiny cove, with staggering views back towards islet-pocked Clew Bay.
(8) Graham Clews Lewes, East Sussex • I can’t help thinking that the Guardian’s Keep it in the ground campaign is not really serious as long as you are willing to take full-page advertising from the likes of Total, as per page 24 on 25 April.
(9) It is the clew-like endings that absolutely predominate, they were 2,027 in number.
(10) Educating Essex came about as a result of Leach's decision to hire director David Clews, an expert in observational documentaries relying on a "fixed rig" of cameras permanently on location, and Andrew Mackenzie, Twofour's creative director.
(11) Under the light microscope, the encapsulated corpuscles of the mouse lower lip mucosa were only classified into 4 types, simple, ramifying, branched-axon, and clew-like corpuscles.
(12) The main difference consists in the rate of occurrence (89.6 as against 57.8) and in the thickness of the capsule, while the nerve clew proper does not grow in diameter.
(13) "Pupils are under much more stress these days and so are staff, yet teachers don't have training in mental health – or spare time," says Moira Clewes, lead teacher on health at Sandwich technology school, Kent, one of the schools piloting the project.
(14) A council spokesman said neither Green's retirement nor Clews' move were connected to the Pelka case.
(15) No clew-like type corpuscles or glomerular-Meissner corpuscles were observed.
(16) As Twofour head of documentaries Clews also oversees ITV2's Magaluf Weekend and ITV's Happy Families.
Wishbone
Definition:
(n.) The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berlin duo launch a supermarket with no packaging Read more The Wishbone Bike Recycled Edition may be the most glamorous end for a worn-out floor covering, but it is not the only way to recycle a carpet.
(2) Jenny McIver and her husband Rich – New Zealanders who have recently returned home after several years in New York City – run Wishbone Design , a product design company.
(3) A wishbone-type pessary, inserted in 1945 and never removed, was found to be the source of these symptoms.
(4) The EMG data of the masseter and medial pterygoid muscles have important implications for understanding both the biomechanics of the power stroke and the external forces responsible for the "wishboning" effect that takes place along the mandibular symphysis and corpus during the power stroke of mastication.
(5) Not just that: the Wishbone Bike Recycled Edition can be expanded as the child grows, saving additional space in landfill.
(6) Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for."
(7) This year Wishbone is launching a new model of the Recycled Edition Wishbone Bike using both recycled nylon and polypropylene – carpet yarn.
(8) The Madcap Laughs (1970) – the solo album that Syd Barrett released after leaving Pink Floyd – T Rex's Electric Warrior (1971) and Wishbone Ash's Argus (1972) all benefited from Hipgnosis's visual mystique.
(9) This is the first report of a vesico-uterine fistula due to a wishbone pessary.
(10) If Desso carpet and Wishbone bikes are to become commonplace, consumers have to be ready to pay to have their carpet transported away, even when it’s much easier to put it in the bin.
(11) The arrival in Brixton Market of Wishbone last year, which specifically sells itself as a quality fried-chicken shop, was lambasted by critics, including this one, for being consciously exclusive; the high counters and bar stools made it all but impossible to eat in there with a buggy or if you had any mobility problems.