(n.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
(n.) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a surprise and delight to find something locally grown and in fine fettle.
(2) A separate Haldane “ecstasy index”, based on economic growth, unemployment and inflation, suggests Britain is in “fine fettle.” But wage growth paints a different picture, with earnings remaining stubbornly weak.
(3) But everyone in the team has been in good humour and fettle.
(4) Apparently, Bruce McAvaney tells me, his fastest serve at the tournament was 219, so he's in fine fettle.
(5) My mother, a very good cook indeed, had not, to my knowledge, a book of hers anywhere in the house when I was fettling away at the Aga in my early to late teens.
(6) This method was used to compare the duration of employment in the industry, in "dust exposed" jobs, in "fume exposed" jobs, in foundry area jobs, in fettling shop jobs, and in foundry area or fettling shop jobs, of those dying from cancers of the stomach and lung with those of all matching survivors.
(7) Well it's not showing on your figure, Chris, you look to be in fine fettle.
(8) oh god May 14, 2014 Boy George (@BoyGeorge) I'm loving 'World Peace Is None Of Your Business @itsmorrissey in fine fettle!
(9) Russia's film industry has looked in fine fettle until recently, with homegrown films such as Day Watch and Night Watch competing with US products at the domestic box office.
(10) The adduct levels were low in men in pattern making, melting, and fettling.
(11) "We are sorry to see Matthew go," said Andrew Neil, chairman and editor in chief of the Spectator, "but he is an exceptional journalist with many demands on his talents and he leaves behind a magazine in fine fettle.
(12) Manchester United had seven recognised defenders starting the game, while Arsenal were in fine fettle, Robin van Persie fit, Andrey Arshavin performing well, and Laurent Koscielny forming a decent partnership with Johan Djourou at the back.
(13) Thanks to GBBO , cake-fettling has crept into the national consciousness – yet I somehow don't find myself being offered muffins at the pub.
(14) Public engagement on the Europe issue is in fine fettle.
(15) And, despite predictions that the event would suffer because of competition from the London Olympics, and despite complaints that it has become over-commersialised , the Fringe appears (at least at the moment) to be in as fine fettle as ever.
(16) Day One: West Ruislip to Great Missenden, nine miles Ron Ryall, wearing an oil-smudged blue boilersuit, was fettling a cream Morris Minor in his low wooden workshop on a lane where the suburbs of West Ruislip give way to scrapyards, dog kennels and horse paddocks.
(17) While question marks hang over the durability of The X Factor franchise, I'm a Celebrity is in fine fettle with the latest series the second-most watched in the show's history.
(18) Despite the ferocious tone of the battle for his party, he insisted he was “in absolutely fine fettle” and even joked about Cameron’s tribute to his cat at the outgoing prime minister’s final appearance in the Commons last week.
(19) Scotland's leader was in rude fettle on Saturday, tilting at the Tories and Labour's quislings in turn, and announcing a couple of crowd-pleasers – the establishment of a fair work commission to guarantee a minimum wage that rises with inflation and reiterating the renationalisation of Royal Mail under his government in an independent Scotland.
(20) Atos and G4S questioned by MPs: Politics live blog 10.23am GMT Jeremy Cook , chief economist of World First , the currency exchange firm, reckons the UK ended the year in 'fine fettle', even though the service sector provided much of the growth, again.... “The 0.3% fall in construction output will be a concern, but I would hope that an increased level of investment throughout 2014 should reverse this."
Ware
Definition:
(imp.) Wore.
(v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear.
(n.) Seaweed.
(a.) Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise.
(a.) A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware.
(n.) The state of being ware or aware; heed.
(v. t.) To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.
Example Sentences:
(1) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(2) These folk spend in a day what most people earn in a year on hiring hotel suites and setting up temporary fashion-show rooms in the hysterical hope that their wares will attract the eye of that most important person in town that week: the celebrity stylist.
(3) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(4) The antimony in metallic kitchen ware was determined.
(5) However, the overall plate count average of the 48 samples was slightly higher with the Waring Blendor than with the Stomacher 400 homogenizer.
(6) In the midday sun, young women and girls around Accra’s Makola market take a break from walking the streets carrying their wares to seek solace under the shade of a tree, napping with their babies in their laps.
(7) In this study, the cost of using permanent ware and disposable ware in selected schools was compared.
(8) Waring distributions were shown to adequately characterize the data.
(9) The animals were sacrificed after 30 and 60 days and the evolution and development of the renal implants within the testis ware studied.
(10) Of three methods studied, brisk shaking of samples in dilution blanks by hand and homogenization by a stomacher were compared relative to their capacity to recover the endotoxins and viable bacteria; blending with a Waring blender was compared with these two methods only on the recovery of viable cells.
(11) With the help of a computerized soft-ware, one growth-index:EPR (End Point Ratio) is calculated, in comparison with a standard, for each antibacterial agent tested and expressed in three categories: SIR.
(12) We have determined the nucleotide sequence of Xenopus borealis 28S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and have revised the sequence of Xenopus laevis 28S rDNA (Ware et al., Nucl.
(13) Health locus of control (HLC) dimensions that emerged from simultaneous factor analysis of both instruments were most consistent with a three-dimensional typology (i.e., Personal Control, Professional Control, and Chance) rather than the four-dimensional typology proposed by Lau (Lau, 1982; Lau & Ware, 1981).
(14) The Colworth Stomacher Model 400 homogenizer was compared with the Waring Blendor for preparing food homogenates to be examined for Clostridium perfringens.
(15) This paper presents the results of an environmental investigation in a plastic-ware industry using RF sealers.
(16) ✒ Speaking of pets, our friend Helena Ware was on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles recently and saw a particular gigantic billboard.
(17) Material and migration tests of food-contact plastic wares made of polystyrene were carried out.
(18) Expect lots of shimmery falsetto and subtle electronic pulses as Ware once more puts the beat into downbeat.
(19) Oxfam's director of UK poverty, Kate Wareing, said: "Removing benefits and leaving people with no income will result in extreme hardship for them and their families.
(20) Wedgwood's fondness for good, plain, utilitarian ware – hence his claim "We shall conquer the world" – has also helped in the past decade.