(n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
(n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
(n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
(n.) Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
(n.) A deep pink or rose color.
(a.) Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
(a.) Having the color of the damask rose.
(v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.
Example Sentences:
(1) A global evaluation was carried out using Damask's method: a lung model was used into which CO2 and N2 were insufflated at precise rates to simulate CO2 production and O2 consumption.
(2) Sacher-Masoch delivers an over-designed world, a sweetshop of seduction, filled with damask ottomans, rich tapestries and baroque paintings of goddesses and helpless mortals.
(3) A new lighting scheme will also be installed, and the coral pink cotton damask on the walls will be replaced with crimson silk damask.
Lampas
Definition:
(n.) An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.
Example Sentences:
(1) An alpha-fucosidase from the liver of the marine gastropod Charonia lampas was purified to homogeneity using a procedure that included cation-exchange and gel-filtration chromatography, chromatofocusing and a final series of affinity-chromatography steps which involved the following gel-immobilized ligands: N-(5-carboxy-1-pentyl)-1,5-dideoxy-1,5-imino-L-fucitol, N-(5-carboxy-1-pentyl)-2-acetamido-1,5-imino-1,2,5-trideoxy-D-glucitol and thio-beta-D-galactoside.
(2) the terminal [14C]fucose was hydrolyzed 85% and 55% by 0.1 N trichloroacetic acid at 100 degrees for 2 hours and Charonia lampas alpha-fucosidase (19 hours at 37 degrees), respectively.
(3) A multienzyme system capable of degrading keratosulphates to yield galactose, N-acetylglucosamine and sulphate was found in the liver extract of a marine gastropod, Charonia lampas.
(4) The effects of various compounds on ascorbate-2-sulfate sulfohydrolase and arylsulfatase (EC 3.1.6.1) activities in the copurified preparation from the liver of Charonia lampas were investigated.
(5) Sulphatide, cerebroside 3-sulphate was hydrolyzed at a considerable rate by arylsulphatase (aryl-sulphate sulphohydrolase, EC 3.1.6.1) purified from a marine gastropod, Charonia lampas.
(6) The specificity of the arylsulphatase and glycosulphatase enzymes of the marine mollusc Charonia lampas towards a number of carbohydrate sulphate esters was examined.
(7) The terminal 14C-labeled fucose was released by Bacillus fulminans alpha(1 leads to 2)fucosidase as well as Charonia lampas alpha-fucosidase.
(8) The results revealed that the best complementation, measured by the nitrogen utilization, happened to be when 50% of the protein contribution was provided by the A. lampa protein concentrate.
(9) Two glycosulfatases [EC 3.1.6.3], I and II, were purified 31.3- and 33.9-fold respectively, from a crude extract of the liver of Charonia lampas.
(10) Treatment of A-hepta with Charonia lampas alpha-galactosaminidase abolishes its binding by the anti-A affinity column and converts it to a Leb-active oligosaccharide (lacto-N-difucohexaose I) that is specifically retarded on a second affinity column containing an anti-Leb monoclonal antibody.
(11) In addition, a tetrasaccharide trisulfate bearing the non-reducing N-acetylglucosamine 6-sulfate end group, also enzymatically prepared from keratan sulfate, was degraded to give rise to inorganic sulfate, N-acetylglucosamine and galactose by the sequential action of this enzyme, N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfatase, exo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase and exo-beta-galactosidase (Charonia lampas).
(12) The Atriplex lampa, chenopodiáceae, is a very abundant bush in the arid and semiarid regions of our Province.
(13) Both forms could release all the sulphate from keratosulphates and neither appeared to be identical with glycosulphatase or chondrosulphatase, both of which are also present in Charonia lampas.
(14) 1) ADP was a potent inhibitor of the ascorbic-2-sulfate sulfohydrolase activity of Charonia lampas liver.
(15) Ascorbate-2-sulfate sulfohydrolase was purified 184-fold from a crude extract of the liver of Charonia lampas.