(n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
(n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(6) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
(7) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(8) Although approximately 29% of the inoculum was recovered from the hepatic parenchyma of the sheep, F. hepatica was found in only one of six inoculated deer.
(9) Thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and alkaline phosphatase (AP) were assayed monthly in white-tailed deer plasma obtained from the antler (A), jugular (J), and the saphenous (S) veins during the period of antler growth and the period of mineralization.
(10) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
(11) Seasonal levels of androstenedione and testosterone were investigated in plasma of mature intact and castrated male white-tailed deer.
(12) Rabbits were hyperimmunized using erythrocytes from either normal or Theileria infected deer.
(13) Adult F hepatica flukes were recovered from experimentally infected sheep and ESP obtained from the flukes; portions of liver were cut and frozen at -70 C. Fascioloides magna adults were collected from naturally infected white-tailed deer and ESP obtained; portions of liver were collected from noninfected white-tailed deer.
(14) Père David's deer hinds were treated with GnRH, administered as intermittent i.v.
(15) A technique for removing the pineal gland in adult and young male deer is described.
(16) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(17) The aim of this work was to determine whether a herpesvirus serologically related to bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) may occur in a stressed white-tailed deer population.
(18) Our results indicated that analyses of helminth communities of deer from this geographical area do not provide a useful quantification technique for determining deer condition, degree of hybridization, or levels of intraspecific competition.
(19) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
(20) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.
Leer
Definition:
(v. t.) To learn.
(a.) Empty; destitute; wanting
(a.) Empty of contents.
(a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
(a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
(n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.
(n.) The cheek.
(n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.
(n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
(v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
(v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
(2) They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
(3) He would think nothing of driving around in his van, leering at girls in school uniforms and shouting abuse after them, said one former partner.
(4) There it’s much less clear who is actually in charge.” NGOs that attempted to stay in Leer despite the fighting could do little for the population.
(5) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
(6) Zevon gives a ferocious leer, flashing two rows of evenly spaced, impossibly white teeth.
(7) [The war has] taken a different turn this year.” During April-September government offensives, “at least 1,000 civilians were killed, 1,300 women and girls were raped, and 1,600 women and children were abducted in Leer, Mayendit and Koch counties”, according to estimates in a recent circular to charities working on civilian protection.
(8) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
(9) As we see from the secret cameras, this isn't so much seduction as leering at intoxicated women until they finally relent and reel off a phone number, something that happens with depressing frequency.
(10) As ugly as its stupid sponsored name, this thing's going to leer over the Olympic Park and get in the way of the fine views from this side of the river.
(11) In the latest flare-up of fighting, government forces are pushing towards Machar’s hometown of Leer, in Unity state, which is held by his supporters.
(12) My portfolio was basically the trade-off we made for keeping Wilders quiet,” Leers said.
(13) As frontlines swept through Leer, NGO compounds were looted.
(14) Plenty of women watch sport, plenty of men want to watch women's sport and not just because they want to leer at women in bikinis.
(15) Fears of an attack on Leer led the UN and all the NGOs working in the area to withdraw their staff last week.
(16) At the height of Savilegate, the news became a sort of Imax ghost-train ride in which a bleached gargoyle repeatedly leered at you, a rolling news ticker scrolling under his chin like police incident tape stretched hastily into position.
(17) Much of the task of keeping Wilders onside fell to the experienced Christian Democrat Gerd Leers, a fellow Limburger, in the newly created post of minister for immigration.
(18) A scientific study of the success rate indicates that through IVT, reductions of the probability of relapse are achievable, which far exceed even the effectiveness of re-education carried out with fewer problematical cases (e. g. Leer model).
(19) (It features my floating disembodied head as a leering demon).
(20) I came here from the swamp when I heard they were giving out food,” said Leer resident Thomas Riek Makuei.