(n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
(n.) A barren or rocky hill.
(n.) A wild field; a moor.
(v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
(n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
(v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
(n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
(n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(4) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(5) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(6) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
(7) Acute and chronic experiments were performed and, in both, the hepatic concentration of GSH fell during the first 6 h after haemorrhage; this fall was followed by a significant rebound elevation at 24 h. In the chronic haemorrhage experiment the hepatic GSH level was normal at 1 week after haemorrhage.
(8) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
(9) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
(10) In the remaining 60 patients (35 with atherosclerotic stenosis and 25 with fibromuscular dysplasia), both mean systolic and diastolic pressure fell immediately after percutaneous transluminal dilatation and remained significantly lower for a period of up to five years.
(11) TRH levels in serum fell and then returned to initial levels after L-DOPA administration in primary or pituitary hypothyroidism.
(12) The patients with phrynoderma fell into two groups.
(13) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
(14) Urinary excretion of hydroxyproline fell significantly in patients receiving ND, whereas the biochemical indices of bone formation did not change (alkaline phosphatase) or increased (osteocalcin; P less than 0.01).
(15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
(16) By all 50 O sera we found that 71.08%, strains was serotype however, they fell into 42 O ser-types.
(17) In gastric ulcer patients DNA loss or turnover was significantly (p less than 0-01) higher than normal, and fell significantly (p less than 0-01) after four weeks' treatment with carbenoxolone when 16 of the 17 ulcers had healed.
(18) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
(19) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
(20) The absolute number of monocytes and B-lymphocytes fell significantly (p less than 0.01) on the first and second day after exercise.
Kilt
Definition:
() p. p. from Kill.
(n.) A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.
(v. t.) To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Fiji summit, delegates wearing Sulu va Taga, a type of traditional kilt, and floral shirts spell out the problems and what must be done.
(2) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(3) Also, Birdman = 21st century Kurgan June 19, 2013 I first read this as "Put Birdman in a kilt..." and almost auto-blocked you.
(4) "Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
(5) Kilt-inspired skirts and dresses, sometimes in leather, also had a modern edge.
(6) "The slogan is from Scotland to the world, and it is not a sense of everything has to have a kilt in it.
(7) "As I came through Highbury & Islington tube station at lunchtime today, the number of be-kilted Scotsman who were queueing up for photos outside the Famous Cock Tavern with irony intent was surely greater than the most optimistic YES vote," reports Stuey X.
(8) The second model portrayed a topless Salmond wearing a kilt and sitting on a bucket of North Sea oil.
(9) I've been spraytanned, waxed, and in a kilt clutching roses trawled a Glasgow council estate trying to propose to Susan Boyle (I did.
(10) Where you can be Welsh and Hindu and British, Northern Irish and Jewish and British, where you can wear a kilt and a turban, where you can wear a hijab covered in poppies.
(11) He then spotted a Scot in a kilt, 51-year-old John McGurk.
(12) The day before he had given me tea and a boiled sweet, told me he admired my journey, laughed at a photograph of my father in his kilt and discussed Persian poetry.
(13) April 1962 Aged 13, moves to his father's old school Gordonstoun, in Aberdeenshire, later describing it as "a prison sentence" and "Colditz in kilts".
(14) Profile David McAllister proposed to his wife at Loch Ness, married in a kilt, he likes Irn Bru, shortbread, and porridge and takes milk in his tea.
(15) It's hard not to be surprised by his demeanour, perhaps because the image of Drummond fixed in the public imagination comes from the KLF's final, triumphant performance at the 1992 Brit awards, during which he lurched around the stage on crutches, smoking a cigar and wearing a kilt, then fired a machine gun loaded with blanks at the audience and dumped a dead sheep outside the after-party.
(16) So fringe is that policy – Reaganomics with a kilt on – that even the CBI in Scotland have been unwilling to endorse it.
(17) She has no partner, and lives with friends in Manchester, where she hand-makes kilts and finds support on the Facebook page of the Younger Breast Cancer Network .
(18) Michael Ghirelli Hillesden, Buckinghamshire • I can’t work out whether was it to antagonise the yes camp or the no camp that you let Fintan O’Toole loose on your pages ( Forget Braveheart, kilts and tribal nationalism, this is about democracy , 13 September).
(19) Trent Lott won the Celebrity Mongering award for putting on a kilt - nurse!
(20) Here's Denis Law sporting an excellent kilt on the way to the airport to be a pundit at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.