(n.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.
(n.) The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white.
(n.) By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain.
(n.) One of the furs. See Fur (Her.)
(v. t.) To clothe with, or as with, ermine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ermine cloaks the coalition's first post-local election test on Wednesday.
(2) I’ll know that the high walls of inequality are tumbling down when a lass from Lincoln’s Ermine estate with a degree from Lincoln University and years of frontline policing experience, including running a police force, gets to run the Met.
(3) But it did have a very particular place in the Liberal Democrat heart, both because the ermine-trimmed anachronism that still co-writes Britain's law offends the party's modernity and rationalism, and because great Liberal heroes moved heaven and earth to reform the chamber a century ago.
(4) The site of modification of the COOH-erminal half was localized in the tryptic peptide which contained the only glutamic acid residue in this fragment of H1...
(5) In the hundred years since the shake-up provoked by the People's Budget, countless blueprints for wholesale rationalisation have run up against ermine-trimmed facts on the ground.
(6) For services to West Ham, women in business and The Apprentice, Karren Rita Brady, hereafter to be known as Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge, stood robed in ermine before the Speaker, Baroness D’Souza, to be formally introduced into the House of Lords.
(7) Among 22 adult ermines, 41% were infected by one or more of five species (Taenia mustelae, Alaria mustelae, Molineus patens, M. mustelae and Trichinella spiralis).
(8) When I got my first electric guitar, I wasn't happy with the look of it, so he found me some ermine white [paint], left over from his second beloved Ford Cortina, and helped me spray it.
(9) The royal horses could have been left to munch hay in their stables, the ermine stored in mothballs, and the Crown jewels kept on show at the Tower.
(10) The potassium concentration (aK) of the environment of a repetitively discharging membrane can increase sufficiently for a supra-threshold depolarization at afferent erminals.
(11) This was no coronation, rather an investiture or an inauguration, almost republican with some red ermine attached.
(12) Once burgers and hot dogs had been given the pimped ermine-collar treatment, it was only a matter of time before chicken went the same way.
(13) A vision in ermine, tiaras, wigs and scarlet robes.
(14) Trichinella spiralis occurred with a maximum prevalence of 50% in martens, but only occurred in 9% of ermines.
(15) Dealing as it does with a family of ermine miscreants, the show looks and feels luxurious, even when Fleming is unfurling reams of dickheadery.
(16) A study was made of the pathogenicity of brucellae culture isolated from various wild and Game animals of the extreme North of the USSR (wolf, polar fox, ermine, glutton).
(17) The term ermine phenotype has been chosen to describe patients with white hair with black tufts.
(18) Helminths are reported for the first time from ermines (Mustela erminea) and martens (Martes americana) in Washington (USA).
(19) The Guardian's Ermine Sayer spent the day at Passmore's Academy.
(20) Labour donor Sir Gulam Noon will also be taking ermine, as will broadcaster and campaigner Joan Bakewell and Gordon Brown adviser Stewart Wood.
Judge
Definition:
(v. i.) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
(v. i.) One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
(v. i.) A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
(v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
(v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
(a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
(a.) To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.
(v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
(v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
(v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
(v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
(v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(3) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(4) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(5) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(6) Significant differences between laryngectomee and nonlaryngectomee judges were found when rating alaryngeal speakers, but not when rating normal, laryngeal speakers.
(7) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(8) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
(9) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(10) The final preparation was homogeneous and a single polypeptide of 18,000 daltons as judged by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(11) But I don't wish to be too hard on the judge for not taking that view.
(12) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(13) I think you should judge the government on its results in education."
(14) This RNA comprises approximately 3% of the purified RNA, as judged by RNA-DNA hybridization.
(15) Its recommendations were judged "correct" by the evaluating pathologist in 15 cases.
(16) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
(17) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(18) The cytoplasmic and membrane spanning domains of galactosyltransferase were found to be sufficient to retain all of the hybrid invariant chain in trans Golgi cisternae as judged by indirect immunofluorescence, treatment with brefeldin A and immuno-electron microscopy.
(19) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(20) The morphometric data was not related to the age of the patient, disease duration, type of MND or muscle strength, thus suggesting that the progression and severity of MND and its prognosis cannot be judged on the basis of quadriceps muscle pathology alone.