(n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
(n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(2) He rubs his nose, strokes his chin, considering his answers; if he had a forelock, I suspect he'd tug it.
(3) Waardenburg syndrome type 1 (WS1) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by deafness, dystopia canthorum, heterochromia iridis, white forelock, and premature greying.
(4) A family had the following manifestations of Waardenburg's syndrome (WS): prominent nasal root, white forelock, premature graying of the hair, freckled pigmentation of pale skin, hypoplastic heterochromia irides, heterochromia of the ocular fundi, congenital sensorineural hearing loss, and autosomal dominant heredity.
(5) We examined a middle-aged man with a prominent yellow forelock who complained of loss of vision in both eyes.
(6) Piebaldism is a disorder in which the major clinical features are patchy hypopigmentation of the skin and a white forelock.
(7) By contrast, poor old downtrodden, forelock-tugging Paddy has only reached the last eight of the World Cup once in three appearances at the finals ... and even then only by the skin of his oppressed-for-900-years teeth.
(8) Waardenburg's Syndrome (WS), a rare disorder inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with variable penetrance, is characterized by white forelock, eye-ear symptoms and signs, and dysmorphic features.
(9) A yellow forelock when associated with isolated painless visual loss suggests tobacco amblyopia.
(10) White forelock and hypomelanotic macules of piebaldism have been revealed to have almost regularly distributed, dopa-positive melanocytes, though with lower density than normal, on separated epidermis despite previous reports describing few or no melanocytes in piebald spots.
(11) A four and a half year old boy had displacement of the canthi, a white forelock, perceptive deafness, and a congenital heart defect.
(12) This was a week to choose British values | Marina Hyde Read more It’s the perfect strategy; there is nothing that Trump hates more than not being taken seriously, and there is nothing more British than not only resolutely refusing to tug our forelocks before any bully who insults us, but resorting to satire, wit and sarcasm as a mark of our lack of respect.
(13) There’s still a lot of this around here,” he said, tugging on an imaginary forelock when I asked him about HS2 (though he declined to give his name).
(14) Excepting a coterie of fogeyish misfits, dreamers, forelock-tugging courtiers, DIY specialists, greasy pole-climbers, short-sighted antiquarians and people who would not recognise a titanium lock-nut if one were pushed up their dado, Prince Charles attaches to architects the sort of revulsion properly due to paedophiles.
(15) The heterozygous mouse phenotype is very similar to human piebald trait, which is characterized by a congenital white hair forelock and ventral and extremity depigmentation.
(16) As far as the social agenda is concerned, here too we are being rapidly taken back to a forelock tugging age of gratitude for the little crumbs of work and wealth which fall from the rich man's table.
(17) A case of human piebaldism with white forelock is presented, with emphasis on the unusual aspect of expansion and diminution of the hypomelanotic areas.
(18) He’s been suggesting economic sabotage, he’s been tugging the forelock of a bunch of union thugs from the CFMEU – the most discredited union in Australia – and now he’s saying he wants to talk.
(19) Jar Jar Binks is famous for the tang of racism in his conception – his accent is plainly Jamaican, or Jafaican, if you prefer – and there’s a forelock-tugging slave-subtext that is crass because it’s unaddressed.
(20) The white forelock is a feature in 30% of cases and should suggest the diagnosis.
Mane
Definition:
(n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(2) This feeling of trepidation isn't helped when I spot him, standing out a mile among the post-work drinkers and carefully dressed-down new-media types, not just because of his mane of blond hair but because his face is covered in faded bruising and the remains of a black eye.
(3) Nucleoid supercoiling can be increased by adding oxolinic acid to a strain that carries three topoisomerase mutations: delta topA, gyrB225, and gyrA (Nalr) (S. H. Manes, G. J. Pruss, and K. Drlica, J. Bacteriol.
(4) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(5) Cecil was a 13-year-old lion with a distinctive black mane, and was reportedly lured out of the national park with bait earlier this month, before being killed with a bow and arrow and rifle, before being skinned and beheaded.
(6) There are pictures of it with its huge, black mane draped on their grand piano.
(7) Koeman believes Southampton are braced for another summer in which key players such as Victor Wanyama and Sadio Mane are likely to attract admiring glances themselves.
(8) These data suggest that nocturnal coadministration of ranitidine 300 mg reduces almost completely gastroduodenal lesions evoked by acetylsalicylic acid 300 mg mane.
(9) The shirts-and-jeans combos might not be for everyone, but there's no denying the quiet confidence, the soft but authoritative Scouse accent, the silver mane gelled to stiff peaks ...
(10) What seemed at first a whoa-ful tale to be reined in, has now become a bit of a mare, neigh an un-fetlocked disaster, as it gallops into one of the week's mane stories.
(11) The severity of each foot was assessed before and after corrective treatment according to the classification of Manes et al., 1975.
(12) Now, increasing numbers of moon, compass, blue and lion's mane jellyfish have been reported.
(13) The charity warned that lion's mane jellyfish have a powerful sting and anyone taking part in the survey should look but not touch jellyfish that they see.
(14) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
(15) Palmer, a keen big game hunter who posts pictures of his kills on social media, is said to have paid around $50,000 (£32,000) for the chance to kill Cecil, a protected 13-year-old lion famous for his black-fringed mane, in Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park earlier this month.
(16) Gucci Mane , the rapper who plays Alien's menacing nemesis, was in prison when Korine offered him the job.
(17) If positions coding for the peptide-binding region of the class II beta chains are eliminated from sequence comparisons, the Mane-DRB genes appear to be most closely related to the human (HLA) DRB1 genes of the DRw52 group.
(18) An Ivory Coast fan waits for the start of the Group C football match between Colombia and Ivory Coast at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia during the 2014 World Cup.
(19) - Our results demonstrate for the first time that omeprazole 20 mg mane is superior to ranitidine 150 mg b.i.d.
(20) Only 7 amino acid substitutions exist between the LS174T cell enzyme and the alkaline phosphatase encoded by the germ cell alkaline phosphatase genomic DNA clone isolated by Millan and Manes (Proc.