(n.) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Officers searched his bedsit and found a .22 pistol, 244 rounds of ammunition, two knives, a crossbow and six crossbow bolts.
(2) A non-fatal penetrating injury involving the brain stem is described from a crossbow bolt.
(3) But should researchers require actual tissue from the animal, they can use a hollow needle fired from a crossbow.
(4) A fully-grown, captive-bred lion is taken from its pen to an enclosed area where it wanders listlessly for some hours before being shot dead by a man with a shotgun, hand-gun or even a crossbow, standing safely on the back of a truck.
(5) Fire cable-loaded crossbow (all embassies have these; ask at reception) across the street to Harrod's roof.
(6) In Los Angeles County, two crossbow homicides have occurred in the past 20 years.
(7) The fact that Dr Palmer’s weapon of choice was some high-tech crossbow seems to amplify the creepy, primal connection that he sought with the suffering of his prey.
(8) Captive-bred lions are put into enclosures where tourists pay thousands of dollars for the dubious privilege of shooting them with guns or crossbows.
(9) At one point, shortly after leaving Foxcatcher, he fantasised about killing du Pont with a crossbow.
(10) Used by Edward I as a crossbow bolt factory, it was a debtors’ prison before being turned into a hostel in 1948 and beautifully refurbished in 2015.
(11) A patient survived thoracoabdominal penetrating injury with impalement of the descending thoracic aorta from a crossbow bolt.
(12) The event is known to fans as "the Red Wedding" because – well, Robb's wife was knifed in the belly, his mother had her throat slit, and Robb was riddled with crossbow shafts.
(13) Following the second case, a crossbow was test-fired into a fresh pork thigh, resulting in distinctive wounds.
(14) We report an unusual case of a 19-year-old man who suffered transoral penetration of the cervical spine by an arrow released by a crossbow at close range.
(15) Hunters Knives and Swords advertised a range of the horror film-inspired blades including swords, machetes and a £39.99 “crossbow pistol”.
(16) The final stage of the demo gives you a crossbow, which immediately had me shutting one eye to aim down the iron sights.
(17) In its conference edition of Crossbow magazine entitled "Party Shrugged: How the Conservative Party lost its base", several leading members of the Conservative Party including David Davis, Sir Edward Leigh, Toby Young and Paul Goodman, have come together to call for urgent action to avert the crisis of a rapidly decreasing membership and voter base.
(18) The crossbow is an uncommon source of fatal injury.
(19) The show, called Fort Apache, opened with Iglesias astride a Harley Davidson Sportster motorbike, placing a helmet over his head and – after a close-up of his eyes – slinging a massive crossbow across his back before roaring off.
(20) Not only is it incomprehensible to me that anyone would want to kill an endangered animal (fewer than 20,000 wild lions in Africa today) but to lure Cecil from the safety of a national park and then to shoot him with a crossbow...?
Rainbow
Definition:
(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
Example Sentences:
(1) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(2) In the saccus dorsalis of the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, the activity of various enzymes (transferase, lyases, oxidoreductases, hydrolases) have been studied in detail.
(3) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(4) In the retina of the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri, Richardson) two types of microtubular structures are demonstrated.
(5) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(6) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
(7) The excretion routes and tissue distribution of [3H]pristane were measured in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri, after a single intragastric dose (0.1 mg).
(8) After 36% of hepatic mass removal , rainbow trout recovered its initial liver weight in 20-30 days, i.e., with a regeneration rate clearly lower than in mammals.
(9) Rainbow trout were infused continuously for 24 h with epinephrine in order to elevate circulating levels to those measured during periods of acute extracellular acidosis (about 5 X 10(-8) mol l-1).
(10) Various compounds, with known clinical efficacy against human viruses, were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growth of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV, a rhabdovirus), and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV, a birnavirus), in rainbow trout cell cultures.
(11) In the rainbow trout hepatoma cell line, ZnCl2 was a better inducer of the MT-B gene, as compared to CdCl2 and CuCl2.
(12) Two distinct coding sequences (A and B) were elucidated for rainbow trout metallothioneins but single isoforms were encoded by genes isolated from the stone loach and pike.
(13) Rainbow trout brain extracts contained CCK-li that co-eluted with CCK-8 in gel permeation chromatography whereas CCK-li extracted from the various gut regions exhibited marked molecular heterogeneity.
(14) Another free school, Rainbow Primary in Bradford, opened despite the local authority telling the government that "these additional primary places are not required, especially in light of … plans to expand a number of existing primary schools and the expansion of some existing academies to all-through schools".
(15) Transgenic rainbow trout (RT) were generated in earlier experiments by an in vivo modification of the chromosome-mediated gene transfer technique.
(16) However, reproducing populations of the most sensitive species, rainbow trout, have been observed in surface waters in these regions, indicating no cause for concern.
(17) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
(18) In the rainbow trout intestine, where SP-like material may be released from both nerve fibres and endocrine cells, it is indicated that the contractile effect is in part direct upon the smooth muscle and in part via stimulation of cholinergic and serotonergic neurons.
(19) Rainbow trout are known to be more susceptible to aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) hepatocarcinogenesis than coho salmon, or trout pre-fed the carcinogenesis inhibitors beta-naphthoflavone (beta NF), Aroclor 1254 or indole-3-carbinol.
(20) By employing rainbow trout growth hormone cDNA as a probe, the coho salmon cDNA was isolated and the complete nucleotide (nt) sequence determined.