(n. pl.) The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
(n. pl.) The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The finfish livers and entrails were macerated in a Duall tissue grinder containing acetonitrile followed by partitioning of the Kepone into benzene.
(2) Weights of the different commercial parts of the animal such as head, ducts, bacon, skin and main organs (entrails) were taken from sacrificed hogs (carcass).
(3) And in a pointed a slap back at Brandis, he said: “Lawyers will always have a lot of views on a lot of things going into the entrails on these sorts of things.
(4) Indeed, he said, there would be “very few Australians” who would not be proud to stand next to such shoulders, but alas “the entrails of his schedule” meant his time spent in proximity to Hastie’s shoulders was limited.
(5) I’m still faithful to Hannibal , but there are only so many times you can watch someone cook a nice brunch with human entrails before it gets a tad repetitive.
(6) She gets nothing but sycophancy from her privy counsellors, so why not ask those paid to watch the entrails of the sacred geese, the economists?
(7) It tasted as you might imagine licking the slime off a fish that has been left to fester in a warm room for three days might taste; it had the tang of bilge and entrail.
(8) The farmer and his children crowd around; a girl of seven or eight stirs a pot on an open fire and, in the dust, chickens fight over the entrails of a ram left over from Eid, its head still lolling in the dirt.
(9) Scratch tests with different fish products (fish juice from fillets, meat (fillet), skin, slime, juice from fish boxes and hold in the fishing boats, and entrails) were performed in 145 volunteers.
(10) The corpses, meanwhile, had bloated and burst in the heat, their entrails seeping out, tongues oozing from faces.
(11) But the entrails of the leak are less important than the issue it raises.
(12) Nowhere in the new advert do we see the blood and entrails, the vomit and faeces, the rats feasting on body parts.
(13) Under optimal conditions, the degrees of tyrosine-desulfation of [35S]sulfate-labeled fibronectin by arylsulfatases from Helix pomatia (Type H-1), Patalle vulgata (Type V) and Abalone entrails (Type VIII) were determined to be 55.7%, 54.9% and 76.4%.
(14) The nation examines the entrails of heirs to the throne, actors and London mayors.
(15) So those of us engaged in this strange spectator-sport are driven to reading stock-market analysts' reports and other ephemera, which is the technological equivalent of consulting the entrails of recently beheaded chickens.
(16) The formation of the above mentioned organic compounds is associated with volcanic processes--with abiogenous synthesis taking place in ash-gas clouds and, possibly, in the entrails of the Earth (hydrocarbons and their heteroatomic derivatives have also been found in volcanic bombs).
(17) Sulphatase preparations from Abalone entrails, the limpet Patella vulgata and ox liver, as well as artificial substrates for these enzymes, were used in the hamster in vitro fertilization system to study the possible roles of sperm sulphatases in sperm-zona pellucida interactions.
(18) No hydrolysis of the sulphate metabolite occurred on treatment with aryl sulphatase from (a) Helix pomatia, (b) limpets and (c) Aerobacter aerogenes, while treatment with aryl sulphatase from abalone entrails led to very slow hydrolysis.
(19) Mr Justice Macpherson, the trial judge, said after yesterday's verdicts: "It seems to me that maybe the public and certainly those involved on the legal side would not wish to gaze at the entrails of the case further."
(20) He seems in later life to have found some sort of serenity, underpinned by the Stoic philosophy which, superbly stated, ends Satire X : Still, if you must pray for something, if at every shrine you offer The entrails and holy chitterlings of a white piglet Then ask for a healthy mind in a healthy body, Demand a valiant heart for which death holds no terrors, That reckons length of life as the least among the gifts Of nature, that's strong to endure every kind of sorrow, That's anger free, lusts for nothing, and prefers The sorrows and labours of Hercules to all Sardanapulus' downy cushions and women and junketings.
Quarry
Definition:
(n.) Same as 1st Quarrel.
(a.) Quadrate; square.
(n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
(n.) A heap of game killed.
(n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
(v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
(n.) A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).
(v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(2) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(3) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(4) Two occupational categories were extracted--"mining, tunneling, and quarrying" (n = 284) and "iron and steel foundries" (n = 428), respectively.
(5) No correlation was found between lung cancer and severity of the radiological category, the type of silica (coal or metalliferous mines, quarries etc), or the degree of exposure to silica dust.
(6) In the early stages of modern urbanisation, however, these villages were soon absorbed by the expanding Paris – making those quarries that were not already exhausted no longer accessible or too expensive to mine.
(7) Xavier Niel, one of France’s wealthiest people and a known “cataphile” (those who illegally explore Paris’s catacombs and underground quarries), is said to have built a flight of steps that goes directly from his house down to Paris’s undergrounds.
(8) The spirograms of 118 granite quarry workers were digitised using an electronic digitising pen.
(9) In the quarry, you can still see half-finished ones built into the rock.
(10) The risk of accident was four times the average in mining and quarry workers.
(11) She has been dubbed "Kingsmead's queen" after the quarry near Windsor where she was found, but experts from Wessex archaeology have more properly called her "a woman of importance".
(12) He recalls being summoned to see the military governor, who threatened him: "If you go on writing such poetry, I'll stop your father working in the quarry."
(13) The Cornish dispute centres on a project to reopen a quarry at Dean near St Kevergne on the Lizard Peninsula , to source at least 3m tonnes of stone for the Swansea project.
(14) A suitable quarry was found about 11 km from the port but unfortunately the rock was found to be contaminated to a small extent with a fibrous mineral identified with the analytical transmission electron microscope as a non-commercial type of fine amphibole with many long fibres.
(15) Whitten says because companies focus on volume to maintain profits, they are unhappy to set aside protected areas within quarrying sites.
(16) After the war Kühne carried his explorations farther west, eventually reaching the quarries at Bridgend in Glamorgan, Wales, where he not only found more triconodont teeth in some quantity (Kühne 1958) but also a symmetrodont tooth (Kühne 1950).
(17) A Cornwall Against Dean Super Quarry campaign has been set up and Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, senior lecturer in natural environment at the University of Exeter, said the project was “the first real test of what it means to be a Marine Conservation Zone, but will also be under intense scrutiny from conservation groups and the marine science community.” In a statement, Tidal Lagoon Power said it would soon appoint a marine works contractor to source and transport rock to the project but denied a decision had been taken to source materials from Cornwall: “No decisions have been taken with regards rock supply.
(18) The frequency and correctness of respirators were studied in 5 granite quarries in Singapore involving 201 workers.
(19) Many FBI agents and cops, listening on wiretaps, have remarked that their quarries seemed to be picking up tips on how to act and behave from Mafia TV shows and movies.
(20) Many of the grindstones used in Nigerian homes are quarried from sandstone in a small group of villages near Kano in the extreme north of the country.