(n.) An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.
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Dunlin
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(n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
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(1) Eight days ago, to the jubilation of its critics and environmentalists, it emerged that the Scottish executive was "minded to refuse" the £500m scheme as it would seriously damage the moor's extremely fragile, internationally-protected habitats for rare birds such as dunlin, golden eagles, merlin, golden plover and red-throated divers.
(2) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
(3) Clouds of waders have risen up from the rapidly disappearing mud: a tight flock of several thousand dunlins , together with a few hundred of the larger knots, which spend the winter here on the estuary.
(4) Four species (mallard, dunlin, starling and blackbird) belonging to three different orders showed a high degree of Fc-mediated protein A- and protein G-reactivity.
(5) In examining the possible consequences on the reproduction of the Dunlin (Calidris alpina), it was found that no adverse effects are to be expected from selenium, mercury, arsenic or cadmium.