(n.) A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed.
Example Sentences:
(1) • nicholsonspubs.co.uk Little Nan’s, Deptford Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Rah Petherbridge Photography For something more hygge, pull up a doily at Little Nan’s on Deptford Market Yard and get snug in one of its deep armchairs.
(2) For captive female bowl and doily spiders (Frontinella pyramitela), data reported by Austad were analyzed in terms of food consumed.
(3) Longevity of free-living female adult bowl and doily spiders was compared with that of captive spiders fed at dietary regimes of one, three, and five Drosophila melanogaster per week.
(4) It's not Africa we are carving up now, but Mary Berry's lemon-drizzle cake , on a doily, in a pop-up marquee or at dinner in Downton.
(5) Two types of faster-growing partial revertants of the doily strain were isolated.
(6) A single-gene morphological mutant, doily (do), which grew at less than 4% the rate of the wild-type strain, had 3% of the wild-type UDPGalNAc content and 0.5% of the wild-type level of cell wall galactosamine but normal levels of UDPGlcNAc and cell wall glucosamine.
(7) Prices are appreciably higher than at the Richmond but the teapots are silver, teabags unknown and they do serve crumpets they way crumpets should be served, on stiffly starched doilies and Wedgwood china plates.
(8) Cell extracts of the doily cultures containing only 20% of the specific activity of UDPGlcNAc-4-epimerase found in the extracts of wild-type cultures.
Dolly
Definition:
(n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
(n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
(n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
(n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
(n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
(n.) A child's mane for a doll.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the local beauty parlour run by Truvy (Dolly Parton), the two meet new employee Annelle (Daryl Hannah).
(3) Dolly Parton has offered to adopt a dog that was found abandoned at Glastonbury festival, after rescuers named the canine after her.
(4) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
(5) Dolly, the police spokesman, said officers had succeeded in protecting local businesses from a second round of thefts.
(6) It will be me on the leaflets.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Matthew Wright with his dog Dolly in Bolton.
(7) And that, of course, was the most disturbing aspect of the story of Dolly.
(8) In Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent the camera is moving on a dolly throughout the entire movie.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aunty Dolly Jerome calling for justice for the Bowraville child murder victims during a march on NSW Parliament House.
(10) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
(11) Trout fry (Dolly Varden), aquatic insect larvae, and periphyton (attached algae) within and below the treatment site during and after treatment did not show signs of mortality compared with an upstream untreated control site.
(12) Once there, Lomax - a trainspotter to the end - enquired about the gauge of tracking used for the dolly shot.
(13) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
(14) The son of two devoted workers for the Salvation Army, Jeffries disliked personal publicity and was a zealot when preparing a role (he ran two miles every morning before appearing in the musical Hello Dolly!
(15) Dolly the sheep , the world's first successfully cloned mammal, was given the name in 1986 by scientists who were fans of the singer.
(16) Sergeant Colby Dolly, a spokesman for St Louis county police, said at a makeshift command centre early on Tuesday morning that some 150 officers had been involved in the operation and had made about 10 arrests.
(17) Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!
(18) The car service area has vintage motors sitting on mechanics' dollies, and there's an exhibition area, a bar, a kitchen, and two old buses that serve as offices.
(19) Dolly's 'creator', Ian Wilmut, of Scotland's Roslin Institute, was equally stunned.
(20) Country music star Dolly Parton has answered the critics who questioned whether she was miming during her Glastonbury set in her own inimitable style, telling the Sun : "My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."