(n.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
(n.) The young of an animal; a whelp.
(n.) A fawn color.
(a.) Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
(v. i.) To bring forth a fawn.
(v. i.) To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
(n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ex-players fawning over Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
(2) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(3) The Fawn-Hooded strain of rats exhibits a hemorrhagic disorder, known as platelet storage pool deficiency.
(4) Fawns and adult deer greater than or equal to 5.5 yr had a significantly (P less than or equal to 0.05) higher intensity (means = 37 and means = 68, respectively) of infection than the 1.5- and 2.5-yr-old age groups (means = 19 and means = 26, respectively).
(5) When tested in cell electrophoresis platelets from fawn hooded bleeder rats showed a significantly lower electrophoretic mobility than normal rat platelets.
(6) This study indicates that the platelet aggregation defect described for the fawn-hooded rat strain is one that does not alter the time course of the morphologic features of hyperacute cardiac allograft rejection, and thus this platelet aggregation abnormality has no essential role in the pathogenesis of this type of tissue damage.
(7) Inoculation of the ovine RSV isolate into calves and deer fawns resulted in infection in both species, and at necropsy, pneumonic lesions were present.
(8) Following treatment with the antihypertensive, debrisoquin sulfate, the blood pressure of the fawn-hooded rats decreased until it approached the levels observed in normotensive Wistar rats.
(9) Reddish-tan and fawn-colored hyperpigmentation in tinea versicolor of this type is not due to melanin pigment.
(10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
(11) Fawn-hooded (FH) rats develop low-renin hypertension which is preceded by a decrease in urinary kallikrein.
(12) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(13) The first steps of thrombus formation, in particular the adhesion and reversible aggregation, were significantly reduced in this model in fawn-hooded bleeder rats.
(14) The present article summarizes some comparative studies of the Fawn-Hooded (FH) rat, a potential animal model of ethanol preference, and the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat, a potential animal model of depression.
(15) However, 5 (28%) of the treated does and 3 (17%) of the control does failed to maintain pregnancy and fawn in 1987.
(16) But, says Grant, British “fawning” over Donald Trump alienates many Europeans, making them doubt we share their basic values.
(17) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
(18) The effect of various doses of the 5-HT agonist m-chlorophenylpiperazine (MCPP) on neuroendocrine function (prolactin and corticosterone responses) were compared in three different rat strains: Wistar, Sprague-Dawley (SD), and Fawn-Hooded (FH) rats.
(19) Infections were significantly more prevalent among fawn and yearling deer.
(20) Free speech is also increasingly curtailed in Chinese universities , publishing houses and the fawning, party-controlled news media ; foreign NGOs have been shown the door; and even mild critics of the regime have found themselves spirited into secret detention.
Kowtow
Definition:
(n. & v. i.) The same as Kotow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking at a conference hosted by the Airport Operators Association, he said there was no need to "kowtow to the Americans every time they wanted something done".
(2) As “moderate liberals” were kowtowing to Beijing in the 1990s, it was Corbyn who stood shoulder to shoulder with Tibetans, whose homeland, annexed over half a century ago by China, is now has the miserable distinction of being the world’s largest colony.
(3) Britain should stop "kowtowing" to US demands over airport security, the chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, has said, adding that American airports did not implement some checks on their own internal flights.
(4) Donors put the money in, but all the decisions are taken by the government … "[Rwanda's attitude is:] 'We appreciate the donors, but we are not donor dependent and we don't kowtow to them' – which means that, although they do depend on donor money, they don't act like it.
(5) As I write, the junta is preparing what it calls “re-education camps” for dissidents and journalists who continue to refuse to kowtow to them.
(6) There was no need to "kowtow to the Americans every time they wanted something done", said Broughton.
(7) Brian Beutler in Salon sketches what happens next : The logical leap (really, the assumption) everyone’s making is that Boehner will put the Senate plan on the floor before midnight, rather than kowtow to the dead-enders to preserve his speakership.
(8) The British government’s “kowtowing” to China on issues including human rights and Hong Kong’s quest for democracy will become increasingly craven following the UK’s departure from the European Union, the former colony’s last governor has warned.
(9) Of course politicians are intimidated: Blair and Brown kowtowed.
(10) Macartney offered to doff his hat, go down on one knee and even kiss the emperor's hand, but declined to kowtow unless a Chinese official agreed to kneel before a portrait of George III.
(11) I wonder, as he prostrated himself before the Chinese, whether he asked himself why he – and Britain – had ended up kowtowing to such a degree.
(12) In Washington, critics have accused the state department of being slow to spend the money and kowtowing to China.
(13) This kneejerk diplomatic kowtowing, embedded in the thinking of a cold war, 1980s world that no longer exists, looks increasingly anachronistic and warrants close scrutiny.
(14) His opponents accused him of kowtowing to the west, notably when he forced the delivery of Milosevic to the Hague.
(15) Part of the theatre of this whole [G20] thing will be about illustrating China’s arrival - the world comes to China’s door and doesn’t quite kowtow but does the next best thing.
(16) The diplomat made scathing remarks about his colleagues shunning democracy activists, "kowtowing" to the Castro regime and joining what he scornfully termed the "best friends forever" camp.
(17) He’s threatening Scotland once again, just as he did over the offshore windfarms, and we can’t continue kowtowing to this megalomaniac,” she said.
(18) We are still jumping through the same bureaucratic hoops and kowtowing to the same statisticians and their clipboards.
(19) Most recently, at least 245 lawyers and activists have been targeted in an unprecedented nationwide campaign over the last 100 days, and at least 30 are missing or still in police custody.” Kowtowing to China’s despots is morally wrong and makes no economic sense | Steve Hilton Read more Steve Hilton, Cameron’s former strategy chief in Downing Street, has also condemned the government’s “obsession” with China.
(20) Yes, Ohio is important in this election, but politicians shouldn't kowtow to their interests only.