(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
(3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
(4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
(5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
(6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
(7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
(8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
(9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
(10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
(11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
(13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
(14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
(15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
(16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
(17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
(18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
(19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
(20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.
Excrement
Definition:
(n.) Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
(n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total coliforms in 23 of 42, 7 days samples and excrement coliforms in 5 of 18, 3 days samples, were developed during the 38 days period.
(2) The higher activity in the experiments with less total areas is traced back to the excrement areas, which increased during experimental time and so reduced the lying area, which led to more unrest among the animals.
(3) Muslims are plotting to infect our food chain with their excrement,” said a man in his 60s, who refused to give his name.
(4) The dumping of excrement on the statue was “reprehensible and regrettable” and an investigation was under way, the university said in a statement last week.
(5) That is to say the proportionate representation of various defects is similar to each other when given biological excrements at different states of gonads are considered.
(6) There have been at least five recorded incidents of racial intimidation in east Belfast including a young Roma cyclist being showered with a bag of excrement on the Newtonards Road a fortnight ago.
(7) Microflora of the pharynx, nose, sputum and excrements was investigated.
(8) PoisonDwarf agreed: "I guarantee that the excrement is going to hit the rotary cooling device on this one.
(9) Larvae were proved to be able to survive 11 months in the environment, even if the eggs had been eliminated with excrements to the grass in July at a high temperature of 26 degrees C. For instance, the larvae Nematodirus, Ostertagia, Chabertia and Trichostrongylus, belonging to the most resistant, survived from the July of one year to the June of the subsequent year in a closed sheep-run located on the pasture and excluding a possibility of access of other animals.
(10) Y. enterocolitica was isolated from all the animals for slaughter (especially from the swine's pharynx and excrement, where pathogenic serotypes for man were isolated), this ascertainment has led the Authors to research the microorganism in foods of animal kind.
(11) From day 12 after infection, oocysts of cryptosporidia were found in the excrement.
(12) They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells [and] they are surrounded by walls smeared with mucus and blood,” said one passage of the lawsuit, which went on to name several more hardships.
(13) A regular disinfection of infected animal excrements is considered to be unrenouncable.
(14) coccidia in smears of gut contents and samples of excrements stained after Heine (1982) was investigated in calves at the age of 30 days, coming from 16 farms of central Bohemia.
(15) Dp 42 was purified from an acetone-precipitated mite-excrement extract by a combination of hydrophobic interaction chromatography on phenyl Sepharose and copper-chelate chromatography.
(16) After oral application the dyes showed a negative response in bile, excrements, and bone marrow.
(17) Transformer On paper, Duchamp invented a "transformer designed to utilise wasted energies", among them exhaled tobacco smoke, urine and excrement, ejaculation and tears.
(18) Secondly, there were changes to the system of disposal of excrement from cesspits to poorly organized pail and single-pan schemes which led to the causal disposal of sewage in the street gutters.
(19) The following characteristics were investigated: glycaemia, glycosuria, lactic acid concentration, plasma osmolality, hematocrit value, net acid-base secretion and excrement dry matter.
(20) However, as more cattle were dipped and the vat became polluted with dirt and excrement, settling occurred much more slowly.