(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.
Viscount
Definition:
(a.) An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
(a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) David, remember, was a woman who chose to cook – the granddaughter of a viscount, she had grown up in a house with staff - and as such, her work appealed to the upper middle classes rather than to the massed ranks of housewives in their new Formica-filled kitchens.
(2) The fourth Viscount Rothermere took charge of the family business aged 30 after the sudden death of his father, Vere, and has a family fortune estimated at £608m , some £228m more than this time last year.
(3) No: the clear winner in this elite-loathing, privilege-hating, populism-riven island is surely the quiet billionaire: Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere , who emerges ever more obviously as the very antithesis of Lord C. He runs a successful, increasingly diversified business empire.
(4) An earlier version said Douglas Hogg stepped down as an MP in 2010 to become the Viscount Hailsham.
(5) The parade, including a loudly cheered group of Gurkhas, marched briskly without registering another small group of Gurkhas who have been mounting a vigil at the feet of the towering statue of Monty, Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery, for the past fortnight.
(6) If there is a conspiracy to run Britain, or rather the media part of it, it is not to be found with the obscure former FT chairman Sir David Bell, but here in the nexus of relations between Black, Michael Howard's one-time spin doctor (who used to holiday with Rebekah Brooks); Dacre, Britain's most powerful tabloid editor; the Telegraph owners the Barclays, a secretive family of plutocrats who can happily text prime ministers advice; and the publicity-shy Mail proprietor, Viscount Rothermere, who politely dines with them.
(7) The Tories, whose campaign is run from a hall at the back of the local Conservative club in an imposing Edwardian house close to the centre of Newark, benefit from an electoral infrastructure dating from the 19th century, when the appropriately named Viscount Newark won the seat in 1885.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen with her five great-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildren: James, Viscount Severn (L), eight, and Lady Louise (2nd L), 12, the children of the Earl and Countess of Wessex; Mia Tindall (holding the Queen’s handbag), two, daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall; Savannah (3rd R), five, and Isla Phillips (R), three, daughters of Peter and Autumn Phillips; Prince George (2nd R), two, and, in the Queen’s arms, Princess Charlotte (11 months), children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
(9) With them sat the Queen's four children and their spouses, and seven of her eight grandchildren (Prince Edward's younger child, Viscount Severn, is just five and so can probably be excused).
(10) The House of Lords staged a hereditary election the other day, following the death at 75 of the crossbench barrister peer, the 3rd Viscount Bledisloe.
(11) Now in his 16th year in charge of the Mail, Dacre's ranking in the MediaGuardian 100 is boosted because he has a hands-off proprietor in Viscount Rothermere, a luxury enjoyed by few other national newspaper editors.
(12) Chief among these is Viscount Astor, who is the stepfather of David Cameron's wife, Samantha.
(13) Monckton, who is the third viscount of Brenchley and does not sit in the House of Lords, is a well-known climate sceptic.
(14) William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, CH, first Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith, politician, born June 28, 1918; died July 1, 1999 • This article was amended on 16 October 2011.
(15) • +33 2 97 65 50 30, lesmouettes.com , doubles from €98 room only Château de Bonabry, Hillion Bedroom at Château Bonabry You can't help but fall in love with this charming old chateau and its equally charming hosts, the Viscount and Viscountess Louis du Fou de Kerdaniel.
(16) He was the Ulster Unionist MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until he succeeded as 5th Duke, and was married to Viola Lyttelton, daughter of Viscount Cobham.
(17) David's father, the second Viscount Astor, had been one of the richest men in the world, inheriting a fortune made in fur-trading and multiplied by investments in Manhattan real estate.
(18) "I feel lucky," says Emily, with the look of someone who'd rather be at home watching Crimewatch Roadshow with a plate of mint Viscounts.
(19) Viscount Thurso, possibly the only parliamentarian to be kicked out of the Lords then voted into the Commons, gave a magnificent stately home of a speech.
(20) The aristocracy continued to wield considerable political power throughout the 19th century, supplying many prime ministers, such as the 1st Duke of Wellington , the 2nd Earl Grey and the 2nd Viscount Melbourne .