(v. i.) To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.
(v. t.) To daunt.
Example Sentences:
(1) This bomb hit Daff al-Shouk square, where families were celebrating Eid, on the southern outskirts of the capital.
Draff
Definition:
(n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
(n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.
(n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.
(n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
(n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.
(n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
(n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
(n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
(n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
(n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
(n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
(n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these experimental conditions, milk production was not enhanced by draff.
(2) Barley, bier and draff therefore contain a beta-glucan-like factor which stimulates lactogenic hormone secretion.
(3) The amount present in draff is probably unable to cause an increase in hormones when administered orally.
(4) The same draff added to the feed of cows appeared to be unable to significantly stimulate the blood level of prolactin and GH.
(5) A strain of Aspergillus fumigatus Fres., isolated from sugar-beet draffs, synthesizes in vitro four toxic metabolites which have not yet been described in these fungal species.
(6) Aquous extracts of brewery draff injected intravenously into ewes and cows induced prolactin and growth hormone (GH) secretion.
(7) Hence, the well-established stimulatory effect of draff on milk production results from their nutritive value rather than from their ability of modulating the endocrine system.