(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.
Coot
Definition:
(n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
(n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
(n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was at least one happy tale, after a coot family miraculously escaped from the floods.
(2) The timing of upper lip protrusion movements and accompanying acoustic events was examined for multiple repetitions of word pairs such as "lee coot" and "leaked coot" by four speakers of American English.
(3) Andrew Coote (@ACunit) @DanLucas86 Endless Blue by @horrorsofficial - he should have remained blue, he blue the season for @ManUtd & because he will be blue April 22, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.26pm BST The severance package Here's some information courtesy of someone who wishes to be known as Handsome B.
(4) This calls for a specific HP48SX implementation with ASCII text output of the algorithm presented by Roberts and Coote (1965), and extended by Roussel and Husson (1991).
(5) John Coote describes these treatments and their possible mechanisms of pharmacological action.
(6) The duo – "two old coots", in Bowles' own quip this week – are the elder statesmen of federal budget battles.
(7) There is a proven link, says Coote, between shorter working hours, health and wellbeing, and freeing up time to take part in voluntary and democratic action.
(8) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
(9) This included white crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, gold crowned sparrows, Z. atricapilla, and English sparrows, Passer domesticus, (68% in the composite); coots, Fulica americana, (29%); blackbirds, Euphagus cyanocephalus, (33%); crows, Corvus brachyrhyncos, (29%); robins, Turdus migratorius, (16%); pigeons, Columba fasciata, (10%); and mallard ducks, Anas platyrhynchos, (7%).
(10) There was evidence for a sequential mortality similar to that reported previously at this site: coots were the first birds to die, followed by American wigeon (Anas americana) and northern pintails (A. acuta acuta); northern shovelers (A. clypeata) and mallards (A. platyrhynchos) died late in the epizootic.
(11) There was evidence for a distinct sequence in the bird species dying at one site; American coots (Fulica americana) appeared to be the first species to die.
(12) At the height of the carping, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker likened Clinton to an “ill-tempered coot driven a little mad by Obama’s success”.
(13) This report analyzes a large data set (1906 individuals, 15 allozyme loci) from a single field collection of the coot clam Mulinia lateralis and demonstrates (1) significant heterozygote deficiencies at 13 of 15 loci, (2) a correlation between the magnitude of heterozygote deficiency at a locus and the effect of heterozygosity at that locus on shell length, and (3) a distribution of multilocus heterozygosity which deviates from that predicted by observed single-locus heterozygosities.
(14) Anna Coote, Nef's head of social policy, believes that if larger charities moved to four day weeks they would be rewarded with "a more rounded and balanced workforce, less prone to absenteeism and sickness, and more productive hour-for-hour."
(15) Her organisation previously talked about a 21-hour working week as being the right option for the economy and society, but Cootes believes this is too radical for many organisations to get their head around at the moment.
(16) The causative agent of ornithosis was isolated in virological examination of the organs of a coot.
(17) Se concentrations in kidneys and livers of American coots (Fulica americana) were significantly correlated (r = 0.9845); Se concentrations in breast muscles and livers of juvenile ducks (Anas spp.)
(18) My own first encounter with Norfolk in literature came in the form of the heroic and crime-solving adventures of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club , a plucky little gang of boys and girls who live around Horning on the Norfolk Broads, in the Swallows and Amazons series of novels, a world as far from my own upbringing as was imaginable.
(19) (Actually, it had a bucolic view of Regent’s canal in London: houseboats, joggers, coots.)
(20) At Nef, Coote questions whether pay should be seen as a limiting factor.