(n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
(n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.
(n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.
(n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
(n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.
(n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
(n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
(n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
(n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
(n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
(n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
(n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these experimental conditions, milk production was not enhanced by draff.
(2) Barley, bier and draff therefore contain a beta-glucan-like factor which stimulates lactogenic hormone secretion.
(3) The amount present in draff is probably unable to cause an increase in hormones when administered orally.
(4) The same draff added to the feed of cows appeared to be unable to significantly stimulate the blood level of prolactin and GH.
(5) A strain of Aspergillus fumigatus Fres., isolated from sugar-beet draffs, synthesizes in vitro four toxic metabolites which have not yet been described in these fungal species.
(6) Aquous extracts of brewery draff injected intravenously into ewes and cows induced prolactin and growth hormone (GH) secretion.
(7) Hence, the well-established stimulatory effect of draff on milk production results from their nutritive value rather than from their ability of modulating the endocrine system.
Hogwash
Definition:
(n.) Swill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former UBS chief economist George Magnus called the comments from Navarro about the euro “hogwash” because it was not “Germany’s currency to influence or manage”.
(2) Those accusations are absolute rubbish – hogwash."
(3) Critchlow puts in a valiant effort during a visit to a community initiative with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who dismisses as "hogwash" the idea that the Tories have given up.
(4) The idea that the leadership doesn’t understand how bad the problems are and that foreign experts have a much better idea of what is going on in the Chinese system I think are hogwash.
(5) Because this is what happens in a hermetic system defined – more narrowly by the day, and especially by night – on the catchphrasing of hogwash and the homiletics of hokum ethics.
(6) On the day of the Newtown school shootings in the US the host angrily confronted members of the pro-gun movement on his nightly show, denouncing as "total hogwash" their argument that more guns mean less crime.
(7) Harald Heubaum from the University of London said the idea that shale gas prices could be as low as the US was "fanciful thinking" and that Cameron's suggestion fracking could play a role in the current stand-off with Russia was "hogwash".
(8) It’s a bunch of hogwash to think that his medical condition is going to cause him any more pain than anybody else,” he claimed.
(9) 4.06pm BST In a time of rigid partisanship, no issue is so purely polar as "Benghazi," with one side framing it as an historically significant crisis and the other side calling it hogwash.
(10) That is hogwash.” He insists Poland can achieve western-level economic development while maintaining age-old traditional Polish values and remaining a homogenous white Catholic country.
(11) The argument that London or any other city should protect its antiquated cabs from competition is simply hogwash.
(12) The statement runs counter to the view of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, who insists any link between climate change and bushfires is “complete hogwash” .