(v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
(v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
(v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
(v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
(v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
(v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
(v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
(2) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
(3) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
(4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(5) When these studies are reviewed in the light of Crow's "two-syndrome" paradigm of schizophrenia, a new trend emerges.
(6) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
(7) The genetic evidence is reviewed concerning 'traditional' clinical subtypes as more novel categories derived from multivariate statistical methods and Crow's type I-type II classification.
(8) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
(9) Intracytoplasmic, rod-shaped and eosinophilic inclusions were recognized only in Purkinje cells in a case of Crow-Fukase syndrome.
(10) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
(11) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(12) And as Crow demonstrated, militancy may not guarantee success – but passivity will asphyxiate unions when the workforce needs them to be stronger than ever.
(13) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
(14) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(15) Oh, and Tony Benn and Bob Crow, when they were alive.
(16) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(17) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(18) In contrast, in the adults melatonin caused more than a two-fold increase in E in the pigeon, and a significant increase in the crow.
(19) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(20) Some of his well-paid members, such as drivers, queried why the union should concern itself with these lower-paid workers whose lack of job security meant they were far more difficult to reach and retain in the union, but Crow, true to his principles, always argued in favour of supporting them.
Jackdaw
Definition:
(n.) See Daw, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) The jackdaws were behaviorally active during the light part of the photoperiod.
(2) Littlewood picked up influences like a scholarly jackdaw, insisting that her company prepare properly.
(3) Capote's jackdaw eye gathered precise, jewelled, almost hyper-real detail – from the easterly wind stirring the elm trees on the track leading to the Clutters' farmhouse to the corpses lying in the Phillips' Funeral Home in Garden City, their heads encased in sparkling white cotton, and swollen to twice the size of blown-up balloons – while his ear rapidly tuned in to local speech patterns, alive to every nuance, every rhythm.
(4) Threshold parameters of the microphonic component in jackdaw nestlings differ from those of sea-gull embryos by more evident flatness.
(5) Studies have been made on the development of hearing in the jackdaw Coloeus monedula and sea-gulls Larus canus and L. argenatus, by means of recording microphonic component of the cochlear potential under chronic experimental conditions.
(6) In 1990 we reported that milk bottles pecked by jackdaws and magpies were a probable source of human campylobacter infection.
(7) Polygraphic and behavioral studies of the jackdaws Corvus monedula have revealed a strong influence of the natural day-night cycle on their daily wakefulness-sleep activity.
(8) Yet, even when the terms of engagement are so limited, a one-off, they reveal that while "the personal may be political", attach a Tannoy, and all manner of furies are unleashed and rights abrogated, not least of the children, ex-husbands, siblings and friends, the jackdaw journalist's, often involuntary, supporting cast.
(9) Some birds in the UK have increased since the 1970s, namely stock doves, wood pigeons, goldfinch, greenfinch and jackdaws.
(10) Late to the mobile game Yet Bezos's hand has almost been forced, suggests Jan Dawson of Utah-based Jackdaw Research, as the era of "e-commerce" on desktop computers gives way to "m-commerce", where people buy via their smartphones and tablets.
(11) Although few people witnessed the attacks, the likely culprits are magpies (Pica pica) and jackdaws (Corvus monedula).
(12) It is certainly true that journalists and writers are jackdaws and that some of us – and I put my hand up here – sometimes see everything in that way, something to be expressed, worked through, written about.
(13) It was estimated that between 500 and 1000 jackdaws (Corvus monedula) were present in the area where milk bottles were pecked and 63 isolates of campylobacter were made from the bill and cloaca.
(14) Ever since he started on the extraordinary sequence of books announced by A Dragon Apparent in 1951, about his travels in French Indochina, the truth about Lewis's discreet personality was something he left others to decide; rarely did his ego make more than fleeting personal appearances in his work - not even in Naples '44 (1978), his hauntingly comic memoir of the second world war, or his two volumes of autobiography, Jackdaw Cake (1985) and The World, The World (1996).
(15) Duck embryos and livers from 24-30 months old chickens, crows, sparrows, rooks or jackdaws contained no gs-antigen.
(16) Osborne and his incredibly powerful Rabbit bring ecstasy to Tory benches Read more It was a redefining budget of scale and ambition that sucked up everything around Osborne, showing that he has the confidence to be a political jackdaw.
(17) Perhaps his kids liked it, in an act of intergenerational rebellion against dad's love of Extreme Noise Terror and Jackdaw With Crowbar .