(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.
Poleaxe
Definition:
(n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Child Poverty Action Group lists occupations whose incomes will be poleaxed: a nursery nurse loses £1,788, a hospital porter £2,011, a care worker £1,906.
(2) Guided by Vikki, in a voice that was part nursery school teacher, part hypnotist, exercises like “the scan”, where you focus on different parts of your body from the crown of your head to the tops on your toes, left me poleaxed, and a convert to more restorative forms of yoga.
(3) The West Ham goalkeeper could have no complaints after poleaxing the Leicester striker.
(4) Capital spending was poleaxed, storing up a public squalor deficit for the future that will need to be repaid as surely as the fiscal deficit.
(5) Weekend reports from Westminster sought to suggest that, even if David Cameron's enemies aren't preparing the poleaxe quite yet, they are sharpening their stilettos.
(6) She said: ‘Allison.’ I said: ‘When did you come here?’ She said: ‘I came yesterday.’” Then came a question that poleaxed him.
(7) But if things go too wrong for too long, then, as Churchill famously put it, "he must be poleaxed".
(8) Standing outside the courtroom in this bright, modern legal centre, he came across as a man in shock, poleaxed by the allegations of domestic abuse, furious that his children had been taken hundreds of miles away from what had been their family home, but also frightened about what the court would say about his right to see them in the future.
(9) I couldn’t move for about five minutes after the curtain call; I was just absolutely poleaxed with grief and sadness for this family and the sadness of life at times.
(10) But no one quite knew what was happening that first night - December 3 1947 - except that they had been poleaxed.