(n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
(n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
(n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Juan Sheet from the Plenty kitchen roll advertisements Because the damsel in distress is the consumer, we can now be rescued from absolutely anything: roadside breakdown heroes rescue women (important that it is a woman) on dimly lit backstreets, sure, but beer can also come to the rescue of thirst, washing powder to the rescue of parents, gravy granules to the rescue of Sunday lunch.
(2) She has played middling singers and capricious interns, dancers, dreamers and damsels in distress, and she has done so with such ease and abandon that the actor and her alter egos have a tendency to blur.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
(4) "Back in the 1960s I broke down in the Mersey Tunnel and was towed out by Everton's ginger haired genius and his namesake dad," writes Jim Lynch, who probably shouldn't be described as a damsel.
(5) When they're not 7ft-tall high-heeled dominatrix killers, women in games tend to be saucy background-dressing or yelping damsels in distress.
(6) In his office hangs a sketch of a knight on horseback rescuing two damsels in distress – Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.
(7) Yes, as far back as 1984 The Terminator gave us a groundbreaking action heroine in Linda Hamilton, but the bouffe-haired damsel in distress was still confined to the here and now, chased by one time-traveller and bedded by the other (in order to give birth to a future saviour).
(8) Doge running out of a burning building with a damsel in distress in his paws, after killing a baddie and saving a whole town with the exclamation of "Much hero!
(9) As it stands now, the mayor has not slain any dragons or rescued any damsels in distress and everybody's looking for a hero,” said political analyst Greg Bowens.
(10) On the cover, a satanic figure grips a silky-tressed damsel in distress.
(11) It has been said that women are not hard-wired to respond to damsels in distress in the same way men are, so all this "white dress scorned virgin" stuff can get a bit lost on us.
(12) People have this problem with Brunhilda as a damsel in distress, but I say she is.
(13) Luckily Ross is there, alighting from the bandstand to scoop up the distressed damsel and keep her moving among the other pairs, saved from embarrassment.
(14) Tamara Prokovna isn't the token love interest, however, or some kind of damsel in distress: she's a vital character in her own right, intrinsic to the main plot, not to mention extremely handy behind the wheel of a supercharged Mercedes.
(15) The damsel in distress and the hero product Everything from kitchen roll to chocolate bars has been cast in the role of hero, riding in to save the day and banish the fear.
(16) For the damsel in distress shopping around for a nose like the one seen advertised in a painting by Botticelli.
(17) For all that, I keep coming back to her delirious turn as Violet in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress .
(18) And, at the same time, our hero miraculously appeared to save his damsel in distress.
(19) And Alan Ball has also ridden to the rescue of a damsel in distress.
(20) I wish that Brave had been around when I was a little girl, to show me an alternative to all those big-skirted damsels in distress, with their "some day my prince will come" and their serenading of small mammals.
Virgin
Definition:
(n.) A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
(n.) A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.
(n.) See Virgo.
(n.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
(n.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
(a.) Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.
(v. i.) To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
(3) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
(4) The hepatic balance for valine, leucine and isoleucine has been measured in anaesthetized virgin controls and 9 and 12-day pregnant rats.
(5) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(6) In the early, middle and late periods of pregnancy, axonal swelling, agglutination of axonal cytoplasm and mitochondrial breakdown were observed, but no marked degeneration appeared in virgin rat uteri.
(7) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
(8) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
(9) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
(10) These results suggest that HTB-9.3 clone represents virgin T cells and CB-11.4 clone-primed T cells at least in alloreactivity.
(11) Previous studies using anti-CD45R monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have shown that normal CD4+ T cells can be separated into virgin and memory cells based on their level of expression of CD45R.
(12) Overall, only 26% of respondents considered virginity at the time of marriage to be important.
(13) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(14) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(15) Second, female preintervention Comparison program virgins used effective contraceptive methods more consistently than those who attended the HBM-SLT program (p less than 0.01); among males, the intervention programs were equally effective.
(16) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
(17) In contrast to their inability to stimulate virgin, alloreactive CD4+ T cells, astrocytes were able to specifically stimulate an alloreactive CD4+ T cell line.
(18) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
(19) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
(20) The occurrence was highest, the degree most severe, and the location exclusively myocardial in C3H and C3Hf mated females, irrespective of parity, whereas virginal females of these strains were entirely free of disease even after administration of exogenous progesterone.