(n.) An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
(n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
(n.) A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
(n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contralateral projection in all divisions of the CN of both albino and 'red eyed' ferrets was normal.
(2) Ferret preparations showed low levels of spontaneous activity, which was reduced by acidosis and enhanced by alkalosis.
(3) Class V cavities were prepared on the labial surfaces of the canine teeth of 18 male ferrets.
(4) In this study, Golgi-stained tissue was examined in order 1) to determine whether sex differences exist in dendritic dimensions of neurons from this region, and 2) to assess the effects of adult androgen treatment on dendritic morphology in ferrets of both sexes.
(5) Also, yohimbine treatment significantly reduced duration of recumbency in 10 of 11 ferrets (p = 0.0001).
(6) A survey was made of the density of the cholinergic innervation of different parts of the brainstem of the rat and ferret.
(7) Dense B-50-like immunoreactivity was localized in nerves throughout the wall of the rat, ferret and human small intestine, notably in the myenteric and submucous plexuses, where in the ferret ileum it co-localized with vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive fibre groups.
(8) Our results suggest that the vascular response of isolated ferret lungs to severe hypoxia consisted of separate early and late phases of vasoconstriction.
(9) Hormone levels were measured in frequent blood samples taken via an indwelling jugular cannula from sexually mature and castrated ferrets.
(10) The effects of gossypol acetic acid on isometric and isotonic contractions of isolated ferret heart ventricular muscle was recorded on a myograph.
(11) The ferret callosal cell distribution has a greater tangential extent in area 18 than in area 17.
(12) PACAP-like immunoreactivity was observed in nerve fibers in the gut wall of all species examined (chicken, mouse, rat, hamster, guinea-pig, ferret, cat, pig, sheep and man).
(13) In both groups of ferrets the oestradiol binding capacity of the uterus was approximately 10 times greater than that of the other tissues studied; of these other tissues the highest oestradiol binding capacity was present in the pituitary, followed by hypothalamus, midbrain, amygdala and cerebral cortex.
(14) Amrinone was found to increase phasic tension of ferret papillary muscles only for depolarizations lasting less than 250 to 300 msec.
(15) Unlike the cat, there is no difference in retinal decussation patterns in wild-type sable ferrets and heterozygous ferrets carrying one albino gene.
(16) We have compared the effects of three vasoactive agents, endothelin, platelet activating factor and thromboxane A2 analogue, U 46,619, in the pulmonary circulation of ferrets.
(17) The distribution of acetylcholinesterase and choline acetyltransferase in primary visual areas of adult pigmented ferret was determined with cholinesterase histochemistry and choline acetyltransferase immunohistochemistry.
(18) The neonatal ferret appears to be a useful model for assessing integrated epithelial structure-function relationships that are important not only during early development but also during repair after airway injury involving deciliation.
(19) The decussation patterns of retinal ganglion cells in adult pigmented and albino ferrets were determined from the distribution of cells labelled after large unilateral injections of horseradish peroxidase into the visual pathway, involving the lateral geniculate nucleus and fibres of passage to the superior colliculus.
(20) In the present study, the SV was examined light microscopically in sectioned material or whole-mounts from pigmented and albino animals of 5 species, including the cat, guinea pig, rabbit, ferret and mouse.
Jill
Definition:
(n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jill McDonald, chief marketing officer at McDonald's for northern Europe, said today in one of her first public comments that she tackled the obesity crisis not just as a marketing executive but "as a mother".
(2) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
(3) In the end, Jill feels her decision was vindicated when her marriage broke up after she discovered he was having an affair.
(4) "It's very, very quiet," said Jill Cloke, owner of Upper Lynstone caravan and camping park in Bude, north Cornwall.
(5) Jill Treanor (@jilltreanor) Matt Damon joked as starts with golden globe speech he didn't give ... Before talking of his disbelief about lack of clean water January 21, 2014 Updated at 5.34pm GMT 5.24pm GMT Key event To summarise, the key message from the Pope is that Davos must make serious progress on fixing the economic system, and that business leaders must become more focused on fixing the world's problems.
(6) This week's victims, siblings Stuart and Jill, both love amateur dramatics.
(7) So I’m just really optimistic.” A Morning Consult poll released on Sunday put the four-way split at Hillary Clinton at 39%, Donald Trump at 37%, Johnson at 8% – he was at 9% in the same poll earlier in August – and the Green party candidate, Jill Stein , at 3%.
(8) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
(9) If local residential provision cannot, or indeed should not, be expanded quickly, "there has to be a really huge emphasis on quality rather than cost", argues Jill Sheldrake, director of social care at Together Trust, a charity that runs residential homes in the north-west.
(10) Paul Guard, who lost his parents Roger and Jill Guard , said nine people from his family would attend the service.
(11) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
(12) ‘Washington is offering no choice besides disaster’ Geno, 37, Pennsylvania, voting for Jill Stein I’m in that middle class suffering from decades of neoliberalism – involuntarily in debt, in a dead-end job because of health coverage and few options.
(13) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
(14) As USA was getting ready for a crucial semi-final against Germany this week, they were a little closer to their opponent than they would’ve liked: USA coach Jill Ellis said she almost walked into Germany’s meal room her first day in Montreal.
(15) Jill Treanor: Bank of England committee flags up housing market concerns 1.34pm GMT Photos: Protests in Athens School guards stand with their backs against policemen as they try to open a street.
(16) Rather, it's how women in authority – or, specifically, female bosses – are discussed, because English is incapable of dealing with this crazy female phenomenon, as demonstrated by the palaver following the sacking last week of Jill Abramson as the executive editor of the New York Times.
(17) A famed beauty, she went on to have a string of high-profile lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Tynan and Cecil Day-Lewis, who was married to her best friend Jill Balcon at the time.
(18) "[S]ome aspects of Jill's management of our newsroom" is how Sulzberger frames it .
(19) Jill Harth, woman who sued Trump over alleged sexual assault, breaks silence Read more After Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and Trump spend a few minutes making lascivious comments about actor Arianne Zucker, they meet the woman they were just objectifying.
(20) The company's chief executive for northern Europe, Jill McDonald, said the company was expanding despite challenging economic conditions: "Our continued focus on serving quality, affordable food and giving our customers a great experience is enabling us to keep investing in our business and creating jobs."