(v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
(n.) One given to cockfighting.
(n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
(n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
(2) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(3) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
(4) Although significant cell kinetic differences have been reported for other epidermal structures (interfollicular epithelium, upper hair follicle external root sheath, sebaceous glands) in seborrheic Cocker Spaniels, proliferation of hair root matrix cells apparently remains unaffected.
(5) There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse.
(6) Jarvis Cocker of Pulp spoke to BBC 6Music , praising Bowie’s outsider influence: He was like an umbrella for people who felt a bit different.
(7) This inherited erythroenzymopathy and myopathy is commonly diagnosed in English Springer Spaniels, but the family study of this Cocker Spaniel, although supporting an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance, did not reveal any English Springer Spaniel ancestors.
(8) Seemingly, the seborrheic skin observed in these Cocker Spaniels and Irish Setters was associated with an altered rate of epidermal keratinization.
(9) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
(10) A 3-year-old female American Cocker Spaniel with a chronic hemolytic disorder and hemolytic crises was found to have M-type phosphofructokinase deficiency.
(11) Never salubrious – Pulp's Jarvis Cocker even wrote a song about his time there in which he simply repeats the lines "Oooh – it's a mess alright – it's Mile End" over and over again.
(12) Retinal dysplasia has been reported in Bedlington Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Beagle, Labrador Retriever, English Cocker Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and Rottweiler.
(13) The mean age was 7.0 years for all breeds, 5.1 years for the Cocker Spaniel, and 9.0 years for the Poodle breeds.
(14) Twitter: @DerekNiemann • Badger watching: a beginner's guide The Guardian's former northern editor Martin Wainwright will chair a discussion of Country diary with diarists Mark Cocker and Derek Niemann and former editor Celia Locks at 11.30am on Saturday 15 November, as part of the sixth annual gathering of New Networks for Nature at Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
(15) Therefore we describe, clinically and pathologically, a case of pituitary tumour-dependent Cushing's disease in an 8-year old female cocker spaniel.
(16) The examined Cocker Spaniels consisted of 5 animals without renal problems for control and 21 animals with nephropathy: 12 of 1-2 years, 6 of 4-6 years and 3 of 9-10 years old dogs.
(17) One of the things I cherish is being brought breakfast in bed in the Lake District by the deputy prime minister and two cocker spaniels."
(18) Five littermate Cocker Spaniels were born with concomitant pericardial, diaphragmatic, caudal sternal, and cranioventral abdominal wall defects.
(19) 5.15pm, and I'm harbouring serious reservations about the mental well-being of Guardian Unlimited Football's readership: "I am sitting alone in my serviced apartment in Singapore, wearing a Scotland top and boxer shorts like a Caledonian David Mellor, nursing the dregs of my one and only can of Tiger," writes Neil Cocker, in what can only be a cry for help.
(20) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
Rocker
Definition:
(n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
(n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
(n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
(n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
(n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
(n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
(n.) Same as Rock shaft.
Example Sentences:
(1) Double-limb support was decreased by 9% in the rocker shoes in free walking.
(2) From Springsteen to Jimmy Barnes, is any rocker safe from rightwingers?
(3) The apparatus consists of a set of hand and foot bars mounted at either end of a rocker arm that pivots in a vertical plane.
(4) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(5) A centrally placed rocker heel leads to increased forefoot loads, especially under the first metatarsal head.
(6) You looked out and it was just a sea of dogs: a lot of rocker dogs, but also some droolers in the front row.
(7) So how did a former punk rocker, DJ and self-confessed party animal who became a chef almost by accident (while bumming around Europe he applied to do a cooking course in Belgium so he could get a visa), and from a country with little reputation on the world food scene, change the way people think about Brazilian food?
(8) Sorrentino, who won the best foreign language film Oscar for The Great Beauty, has worked with English-speaking actors before, having cast Sean Penn in his goth-rocker road movie This Must Be the Place , which was selected for the Cannes film festival.
(9) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
(10) The rockers' 13th studio album is reportedly out in April through U2's new deal with Island Records , with live dates sure to follow.
(11) A detailed ultrasonographic study of the craniofacial structures, intrathoracic organs, and limbs showed scalp edema, multiple ankyloses, camptodactyly, rocker-bottom feet, cardiac arrhythmias, and lung hypoplasia.
(12) Findings compatible with trisomy 18 included postmature delivery, prominent occiput, severe congenital heart disease, overlapping fingers, and rocker-bottom feet.
(13) The night’s other performances maintained the tradition of non-tradition as rapper Kendrick Lamar performed with alt-rockers Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke sang alongside rock band Chicago and Stevie Wonder took the stage with electronic duo Daft Punk.
(14) He was a rocker and a brilliant dancer and he wore winklepickers and wraparound shades.
(15) A group of homeless juveniles (N = 50) was compared to a group of rockers (N = 46) and a further group of "normal" non-rockers (N = 132) as regards social background, attitudes to others, intelligence, performance motivation and further personality variables such as aggression, extraversion, neuroticism and rigidity.
(16) Their craniofacial skeleton is large and robust, with mandibular size and form (the "rocker" mandible) being especially characteristic.
(17) It had quite an impact, not least that human attractions such as US stadium rockers Heart and Willie Nelson declined to play at the theme park in Orlando.
(18) ITV1's detective drama Lewis pulled in 6 million viewers on Easter Sunday, 12 April, for a special episode featuring Joanna Lumley as an ageing rocker.
(19) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
(20) Madonna has voiced hope that three feminist Russian rockers from the band Pussy Riot who are on trial for performing a "punk prayer" against Vladimir Putin are released soon.