(1) The last time central Kansas saw a good dowsing was in April last year.
(2) Ian Pearson, the Labour minister who oversaw export controls at the time, was emailed a detailed dossier about McCormick entitled "Dowsing rods endanger lives" in November of that year but his ministerial office did not reply.
(3) The devices were compared to dowsing rods and magic wands by people who used them, although their sales in Iraq and other war zones helped make McCormick a £55m fortune, and allowed him to buy a £3.5m mansion in Bath formerly owned by the actor Nicolas Cage.
(4) In January 2009, the whistleblower, who does not want to be named, sent a dossier detailing the scam that began with a hard-hitting title – "Dowsing rods endanger lives" – to James Arbuthnot, the chairman of the Commons defence select committee.
(5) If governments – dowsing sympathy for the BBC amid a welter of other cuts, playing the hardest of hardball – can blow away independence thus, what's the point of pretending that refurbishing frail defence mechanisms can put Auntie together again?
(6) After this dowsing it wouldn't be a surprise if these police were protesting for an improvement in their own working conditions.
(7) Positive responses (dowsing signals) were evoked from 14 male "dowsers" by exposure to artificial electromagnetic (ac) fields.
(8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
(9) Radcliffe then added a "Yet" at the prompting of his director, Michael Dowse.
(10) Dowse sold the film as the "perfect romcom … girls will come see it and boys won't throw up in their own mouths".
Rhabdomancy
Definition:
(n.) Same as Rabdomancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) On dark-adaptation of the 11-day adult eye, the rhabdomers move towards the cuticle.
(2) The rhabdom of the larval eye, if cut longitudinally, exhibits a "banded" structure over its entire length; in the adult the banded part is confined to the distal end, and the rhabdom is tiered.
(3) In all other ommatidia, the proximal parts of the rhabdoms show radially arranged microvilli, whereas the distal parts may reveal different patterns, frequently with microvilli in two directions or sometimes even in one direction.
(4) A calculation of the theoretical field size of individual retinula cells from measurments of refractive index and lens dimensions predicts that cells which participate in the central rhabdom will have acceptance angles near 3 degrees.
(5) All retinula cells run the entire length from the cone to the basal lamina, although two, called the proximal cells, only contribute to the lowest third of the rhabdom, and one of either cell 6 or cell 7 on our arbitrary numbering system forms its axon one third the way up the ommatidium.
(6) In the dark, a distinct gradient of activity was observed with radioactivity concentrated distally and declining toward the proximal end of the rhabdome.
(7) An admittance function was defined as the percentage of the rays reaching the rhabdom with respect to those entering the ommatidium.
(8) In spite of a one h exposure to light, rhabdom microvilli show no disintegration or disruption of membranes.
(9) The rhabdom of isolated small photoreceptors is surrounded by a calyx originating from the soma, so that it appears to be located internally.
(10) After 1-h illumination (225-320 lux), further reduction of rhabdom diameter was modest in control retinae but precipitate in those treated with OKA.
(11) Foot cells which lie immediately below the rhabdom also contain similar junctions and actin is tentatively identified in these cells.
(12) Three different fractions of visual cell fragments were prepared from the retina: the MV-fraction containing the rhabdomal microvilli, and the PVH- and PVL-fractions containing the photic vesicles located in the visual cell body.
(13) Sometimes seven and sometimes eight retinular cells closely appose the proximal tip of the cone and bear the microvilli of the rhabdom.
(14) Rhabdom sizes were not compromised by OKA, nor by either of the two protein kinase activators, SC-9 or PDA when each was deployed alone in darkness.
(15) A clear zone between dioptric structures and the rhabdom layer is absent.
(16) In Loricera and Agonum roots at the level of the proximal rhabdom are not continuous with the rootlets or short roots associated with the centrioles.
(17) In both cases, microvilli of the rhabdom were severely disrupted and the retinular cytoplasm contained numerous multivesicular bodies.
(18) Exposure to light seems to activate a transport mechanism that results in the redistribution of retinoid between the inner segments and rhabdomes and chromophore exchange among the photopigments.
(19) Quantification of the electron microscopic autoradiograms revealed that labeling of the cytoplasm was greater than the rhabdome at 2, 5, and 30 minutes and reached a peak at 12 hours.
(20) Extensive areas of gap junctions which occur between the rhabdoms and the membranes of large and small cells suggest that the cells may be electrically coupled to one another.