(n.) A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.
(n.) The needlefish.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a simple solution, formulated by English PEN, the Manifesto Club and the Earl of Clancarty, who raised the matter in the Lords earlier this year: remove short-term visits by non-EU artists from the PBS and expand the entertainer route, letting paid and unpaid artists qualify.
(2) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(3) We find that in Earle's buffer (100 mM Cl-) supplemented with 100 microM Br- and varying concentrations of SCN-, HOBr production by activated eosinophils and purified EPO, assayed by conversion of fluorescein to dibromofluorescein, was 50% inhibited (ID50) by only 1 microM SCN-.
(4) Isolated pulmonary arterial rings from Sprague-Dawley rats were placed in tissue baths containing Earle's balanced salt solution (gassed with 95% O2 - 5% CO2, 37 degrees C, pH 7.4).
(5) This year, after a generation of terminal decline, it won an award for stylish restoration that saved the birthplace of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury , the great 19th-century reformer who took up Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery, and saw it through to victory.
(6) The 2-methyl derivatives of tamoxifen (2-methyltamoxifen and 2-methyl-4-hydroxytamoxifen) were extracted from a cell culture medium at pH 5.4 (Earle's Minimum Essential Medium) with an internal standard (tamoxifen) on a phenyl sorbent cartridge.
(7) "When Jaeger lost its way, it lost sight of the customer big-time," Earl says.
(8) The now 8th Earl of Lucan has treated such sightings with weary equanimity, once saying: “I get a little tired when former Scotland Yard detectives at the end of their careers get commissions to write books which happen to send them to sunny destinations around the world.
(9) The superior cervical ganglia of the rat have been incubated in vitro for 1 h in basal medium Eagle (BME) with Hanks' salts, BME with Earle's salts, Kreb's solution and NCTC 109 medium.
(10) The techniques used by Earl Pound for denture construction are stated, and their application to contemporary denture construction and implant-based prosthodontics is discussed.
(11) When Earl arrived, Verdon says, she sent the design team back to the archive.
(12) On the defensive side of the football, the South Florida club also added former Houston Texans DT Earl Mitchell (4-years, $16m), who’ll go someway to replacing outgoing veterans Paul Soliai and Randy Starks.
(13) Fragments of normal term placenta were mixed with Biogel P2, packed into minicolumns and superfused with carbogen-gassed Earles buffer at 37 degrees C. The rheology of the superfusion system was determined and the oxygen consumption of the superfused placental fragments indicated viability of the tissue preparation over a 5-hour time span.
(14) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
(15) The addition of Earle's balanced salt solution (EBSS) of amino acids that are transported by a Na+-dependent cotransport system was not required by Vero cells for ornithine decarboxylase (ODC:EC 4.1.1.17) amplification.
(16) This is the context in which Earl and her right-hand woman, womenswear director Frances Russell, now presents their third fashion season, which will go on sale in the autumn, to the fashion press.
(17) Similar analyses were performed on uterine muscle and placentae before and after perfusion with Earle's solution.
(18) "[In the] last farm bill debate in 2008, Rep Earl Blumenauer heroically tried to force a vote on food aid reform, but was quashed by an overbearing rules committee, which wouldn't permit him to offer the amendment.
(19) Today Lebedev remains close to Kudimov, one of the original gang of four from Earls Terrace, Kensington, who helped him launch his business career, although he has fallen out with both Kostin and Danilitskiy.
(20) Single isolated lobules from term placentae were bilaterally perfused with Earle's solution, and the release of human chorionic somatomammotrophin (HCS) was measured by radioimmunoassay.
Farl
Definition:
(v. t.) Same as Furl.
Example Sentences:
(1) • You could use any left-over mashed potato to make your next batch of farls.
(2) The less flour and bicarb you use, the denser and moister the farl.
(3) • Farls taste great as an accompaniment to curry.
(4) They provide fertile ground for experimentation with almost no chance of failure – it is hard to cook a bad farl.
(5) For the nervous or novice baker, potato farls are a wonderful way to get started.
(6) Farl experiments melted butter and a sprinkling of salt Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian • Make a much lighter, fluffier farl.
(7) • Try making potato farls with fine oatmeal instead of flour.
(8) "Dinner was always potato farls with black pudding and white pudding," she remembers happily.
(9) Recipe by Jane Baxter How to serve your farl Nowadays, farls are most often served with a cooked breakfast or at teatime.
(10) It isn’t so much a cake, in fact, as an entire Ulster breakfast that they want to see sizzling and permanently undiminished on their plate while at the same time forking it, item by fried item – potato farls followed by sausage followed by bacon, eggs and black pudding – down their ready gullets.
(11) I had about 20 people over to my house and we cooked proper potato farls, potato cakes, soda bread and Irish sausages.
(12) The recipe we have given here is for a nice, rich, dense farl – best, in my book, served with nothing but lashings of melted butter and a sprinkling of salt – but we have given other serving ideas.
(13) It's the full English and then some – with added fried soda farl and potato bread.
(14) Potato farls also work well in any recipe that would normally use a muffin, so top them with smoked salmon (or fried mushrooms) and a soft poached egg.
(15) Potato farls Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Makes 8 small farls 500g floury potatoes, such as King Edward or desiree 50g butter 50g plain flour, plus extra for rolling out ¼ tsp baking powder Salt and black pepper Extra butter, for cooking 1 Peel the potatoes, then cut them into quarters.
(16) The word farl literally means "fourths": they are shaped from a circle of dough cut into quarters.