(n.) An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wonder how sick in the stomach Cameron felt when he saw himself in his Cotswold kitchen on TV.
(2) Mahmood took another royal scalp in 2005 when he posed as a property tycoon interested in buying Princess Michael of Kent’s 17th-century Cotswolds manor house.
(3) At the same time, the sentimental value of the countryside, which can be calibrated in the way a Cotswolds cottage is now an ultimate luxury, has never been higher.
(4) Liz Leffman, the Lib Dem candidate collecting signatures by the Cotswolds Kids clothing shop, sees Brexit as being on the ballot paper for this fight.
(5) He never lived in the house he bought in the Cotswolds.
(6) Schools like ourselves which are open to all pupils and serve a diverse community can’t plan, because … with surplus places in the South Cotswolds, we don’t know our final numbers till March each year,” Henson says.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anti-badger gassing activists in the Cotswolds.
(8) If I’d grown up in a more normal household, maybe I wouldn’t have wanted to be one.” Although she moved to London after studying English at York University (she now lives in the Cotswolds), Yorkshire is an area she frequently returns to in her television writing.
(9) My husband and I began taking regular weekends away in the Cotswolds; we ended up making friends, and then hearing about a property for sale in the area.
(10) Racist jokes (some of which would have gone over my roof rack if I had been a Top Gear viewer) and an assault cost him his BBC slot , but he keeps his perch in the Murdoch press and, so I suspect, as court jester in the Cotswolds.
(11) The following year he scored a comic success as an old-fashioned, gentlemanly detective-inspector in Tony Bicat's spoof of the traditional country-house murder story, A Cotswold Death.
(12) I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds."
(13) If we were, we’d be living in a chocolate-box cottage in the Cotswolds,” she said.
(14) His tourist-guide zeal is so passionate, you might take him for an exile, a deracinated Lancastrian, rather than for what he really is – an Essex boy, with homes in London and the Cotswolds.
(15) Ukip had gone into Thursday's European poll with one representative – Farage – in the huge constituency which takes in nine counties and 8 million voters and stretches from the Cotswolds to Margate, and from the Isle of Wight to the southern suburbs of Milton Keynes.
(16) A flowering bluebell on the Cotswolds believes that Valentine’s Day falls in May.
(17) This Cotswold campsite offers two shepherd's huts with woodburning stoves and the chance to wake up to a carpet of blueness (from £70 per night, canopyandstars.co.uk ).
(18) The memorial is a 7ft-high curved wall of Cotswold stone designed to reflect the landscape of the Falklands and echoes a commemorative wall at the islands' San Carlos cemetery.
(19) She married partner Charlie Brooks, a racehorse trainer, last month, at St Bride's church on London's Fleet Street, and threw a huge party in the Cotswolds attended by some of the biggest names in showbiz, the media and politics.
(20) Gary Wright, who runs a family antiques business in the Cotswolds says that the rise in VAT will "hit our profits line.
Wool
Definition:
(n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
(n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
(n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(2) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
(3) Removal of accessory cells adherent to nylon wool column abolished MAS reactivity, whereas it has little effect on lymphoproliferation induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).
(4) Somatic changes included reduced wool growth, delayed osseous development in the limbs (X-ray assessment) a reduced heart weight (39.1%) and an increased pituitary weight (48.1%).
(5) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
(6) Immunoreactivity was restricted to the periderm and intermediate layers of fetal epidermis at 55 d of gestation, when the first wave of wool follicles are initiated.
(7) Data obtained with cells separated by adherence, nylon wool columns, and positive and negative sorting with monoclonal antibodies that define B, monocyte, T helper and T cytotoxic cells show that several different cell types have the ability to produce GH mRNA.
(8) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
(9) Removal of nylon wool adherent cells or cells with histamine receptors by column chromatography similarly caused reduced production of type II interferon.
(10) The activity of uremic spleen cells can be enhanced (restored) by removal of the sub-population of cells adherent to glass wool.
(11) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
(12) The in vitro generation of allospecific CTL by human PBMC was enhanced 4- to 16-fold by sequential plastic and nylon wool adherence, which depleted the PBMC of macrophages and B cells.
(13) In parallel experiments, macrophages infected with the mycobacteria were co-cultured with syngeneic in vivo M. kansasii sensitized non-adherent, nylon-wool purified lymph node cells, and lymphoproliferation was measured by [3H]thymidine incorporation.
(14) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
(15) In general, IEL of satisfactory yield and of good viability were obtained with EDTA treatment of the gut tissues, followed by rapid passages of the resultant cells through nylon-wool columns and centrifugation on two-step Percoll density gradients (45% and 80%).
(16) There was a definite glove and stocking type of hypesthesia to pinprick and cotton wool.
(17) Since young nude mice could be rendered as unpermissive as older nude mice by pretreatment with either PNA-agglutinable thymus cells or nylon-wool passed spleen cells, it is suggested that an increased number of precursor T cells in older nude mice might induce this effect.
(18) Differences in wool production between ewes weaning one or two lambs were small.
(19) The effects of flumethasone on some aspects of wool growth revealed interactions between the routes of administration, the period of dosage and the rate of wool growth in the recipients.
(20) Streptococcus pyogenes survives poorly on plain cotton-wool swabs, whereas serum-dipped swabs permit its survival but also allow overgrouth by other bacteria and are likely to contain virus inhibitors.