(n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed.
(a.) To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Titrations with urea, analyzed according to the heteropolymer theory [Alonso, D. O. V., & Dill, K. A.
(2) I asked her what she thought of the freezing weather here and she said she was used to it.” At lunch, Kate dined on herb-infused vegetable terrine, poached salmon with dill hollandaise sauce, lemon pearl barley risotto and sautéed vegetables.
(3) We conclude that the Dill-Glazko test should not be used.
(4) The ‘ukropi’ [‘dill people’, a derogatory term for Ukrainians] pounded us.
(5) Diffuse intermediate lymphocytic lymphoma (DILL) is considered a late stage in the progression of MZL.
(6) The Dill-Glazko test was affected by low urinary pH and by addition of erythrocytes to urine.
(7) These findings are in agreement with the mean field statistical thermodynamic theory of Dill, which predicts that increased stationary phase chain density should lead to increased anisotropic chain ordering and increased solute-shape selectivity.
(8) Walter Dill Scott was the major proponent of this theory, and it was largely through his writings that advertising men learned about the psychology of suggestion.
(9) Dill or fennel butter Substitute dill or fennel for the parsley.
(10) This study confirms the low sensitivity (less than 55%) of the Dill-Glazko test in urine, which is 100-1000 times less sensitive than the ELISA; the latter can detect 10-20 ng chloroquine per ml.
(11) These results suggest that the botanically related spices, coriander, anise and dill, contain common IgE-binding structures.
(12) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
(13) • 2814 North 16 Street, barriocafe.com CULINARY HEROES FnB Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Jill Richards Photography Among the Native American souvenir stores of Scottsdale old town, is the excellent FnB, a truly forward-thinking, showcase for the state’s native produce in veg-centric dishes: salad of persimmons with hazelnut, kohlrabi, dill and goat’s cheese.
(14) That night, as we sat around the fire, feasting on chicken and dill casserole washed down with Bryg brown ale, and with the sea only metres away, I felt the Danish concept of hygge – roughly meaning cosy or content.
(15) The authors establish that choleretic action of the dill oil is manifested comparatively slightly in uneven increase of the basic bile components.
(16) Recent lattice polymer simulations by Chan & Dill suggest that compactness may be a significant driving force in the formation of secondary structure.
(17) An improved method has been developed for the extraction of light filth from whole, cracked, or flaked spices (basil, bay leaves, clery leaves, chervil, chives, dill weed, mint flakes, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme, and vegetable flakes) and from ground spices (cloves, cumin, marjoram, mustard seed, oregano, sage, and thyme).
(18) A second survey in March 1971 found 15 of 47 complete compounds tested in Lassa, Dille and Yuba villages had at least one peron with serologically demonstrable experience with LF virus.
(19) In this connection vegetables (beet Bordeaux, turnip Petrovskaya, carrot Chantanet, dill, radish Virovsky white) and wheat (variety Sonora) were cultivated during the lunar light-dark cycle (i. e. 15 day light: 15 day dark).
(20) The authors present the results from the experiemental studies of choleretic action of the Bulgarian dill oil, produced by the firm "Bulgarian Rose" from the crop of 1970, on white rats.
Lull
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
(v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.
(n.) The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.
(n.) A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(2) Spurs were almost sleepwalking to a comfortable win, with even the crowd lulled into the inevitability of it all, when sloppiness flared.
(3) The reason for this odd period of apparent inactivity is not just the lull caused by the summer break or even the shock of the British vote to leave the EU.
(4) A definite increase was noticed in the number of cases per block following lull years in 1984 and 1987.
(5) There was anecdotal evidence to suggest revenge pornography images were being circulated among teenagers in schools and applications such as Snapchat (where photos disappear after a few seconds) were lulling young people into a false sense of security.
(6) There's a brief lull as Seattle try to just get their collective foot on the ball and try to maybe calm what's still a fantastically raucous crowd.
(7) Let us not forget that returning veterans of the "war to end all wars were promised a "land fit for heroes", yet what they got post-1918 was poverty, squalor, unemployment and, after a short lull, more war.
(8) So, something of a summer lull, but we'll do our best.
(9) There's a lull while Mark Hudson gets treatment for cramp.
(10) Word of their last-minute intervention to delay the sanctions never filtered down to working-level officials at the State Department during the holiday lull.
(11) 6.15am After an hour and a half of furious exchanges, there was a lull in the fighting.
(12) Animals that were subjected to sham surgery or anesthesia alone showed a delay of 4.4 h in the reappearance of LH secretion, similar to the lull in LH pulsations normally observed at the time of day.
(13) First comes a feeling of euphoria: then the diver gets overconfident, lulled into a false sense of security, and dangerously overestimates how long they have left.
(14) Shortly after 4pm there was a brief lull when Father Hugh Mullan, a 40-year-old priest who lived in Springfield Park, remonstrated with the crowds.
(15) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
(16) The poem is structured like a lament, the soldiers' epitaphs interspersed with direct translations of Homer's extended similes, each of which is transcribed, lullingly, twice over.
(17) The next time you hear mollifying words from Rudd that our rising debt levels are at reasonable levels compared to other countries, think about how Britons were lulled into the financial danger zone and ask yourself: are we on the same trajectory?
(18) At the moment, there's a bit of a lull and it's very quiet.
(19) Midnight in Paris , his biggest box-office earner to date , might have lulled you into assuming late-stage Allen was pipe-and-slippers stuff.
(20) Barcelona did succeed in lulling United into a false sense of security, however, for when they put together their first meaningful attack after 10 minutes the defensive line in front of Van der Sar crumbled alarmingly to allow the goalkeeper to be beaten at his near post.