(n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
(n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
(n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
(n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
(n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur
(n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
(n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
(a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
(v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
(v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
(v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
(4) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) The responsible allergens are contained in the urine, saliva, and secretions of furred animals.
(7) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
(8) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(9) He was fined £800 and ordered to pay £3,500 costs by the Furness and District Magistrate court after being prosecuted by the CAA.
(10) The Fur protein was isolated in a single step by immobilized metal-ion-affinity chromatography over zinc iminodiacetate agarose.
(11) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
(12) Regulation by iron occurs at the transcriptional level and is mediated by a ferrous iron binding protein designated Fur (ferric uptake regulation).
(13) Instrumental neutron activation analysis has been used for an initial evaluation of trace element content in samples of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Pribilof Islands.
(14) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(15) The results show that transcription of the fur gene is initiated from at least two different sites separated by 6 bp, which appear to originate from two overlapping promoters sensitive to catabolic activation.
(16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(17) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(18) 5-Fluorouridine (100 microM, 26 micrograms ml-1) inhibited contraction of human fibroblasts by more than 80%, whereas only 10 microM (2.6 micrograms ml-1) 5-FUR was required for 90% inhibition of rabbit fibroblast contraction.
(19) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(20) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.
Tortoiseshell
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of the chromosome findings in 25 male tortoiseshell or calico (T-C) cats showed a variety of aneuploidy, polyploidy, mosaicism, and chimerism.
(2) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(3) When they settle on garden flowers they are as striking as their less adventurous relatives, the red admiral and the small tortoiseshell.
(4) The yellow-nonyellow pattern of the tortoiseshell guinea pig is presented as a model for the distribution of mutant and nonmutant neural-crest cells in von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF-1).
(5) The old quarry has been reclaimed back to its natural habitat by Mother Nature.” As he speaks I spot more butterflies, mainly whites and browns and red admirals as well as a small tortoiseshell.
(6) There has been some more cheerful news, such as the comeback of the large tortoiseshell butterfly, which was thought to be extinct in the UK but bred successfully on Trust land in south Devon in March and was spotted elsewhere along the south coast.
(7) When passengers arrive at Kishi station in western Japan they are greeted by a tortoiseshell cat named Tama, whose feline charms are bringing the sleepy Kishigawa line back to life.
(8) The trust has previously sent squirrels to Anglesey, including several offspring of one red squirrel known as Tortoiseshell, who gave birth to 50 kittens before she died aged nine this year.