(n.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every 22 August it is wreathed in flowers, on the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, when the last Plantagenet lost his horse in marshy ground, and then his life and his crown, which legend says rolled from his dying head under a furze bush.
(2) His death at Bosworth, where according to legend the crown handed to Henry Tudor was found under a furze bush where it had rolled from Richard's dying head, launched a new dynasty.
Gorse
Definition:
(n.) Furze. See Furze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.
(2) Freud's exceptional ability to convey tactile information is evident in early drawings, especially those of gorse sprigs, a dead heron and a bearded Christian Bérard in a dressing gown.
(3) The route, from Chilworth station, starts by crossing a strange area of wild and rather forbidding scrub and gorse, but soon gives way to gentle pastures, small woods and cosy commuter villages.
(4) Cryostat sections of rat descending colon were studied by fluorescence microscopy after exposure to conjugates of fluorescein isothicoyanate with lectins from Glycine max (soybean), Triticum vulgaris (wheat germ), Ricinus communis (castor bean), Ulex europaeus, (gorse), Dolichos biflorus (horse gram) and Canavalia ensiformis (concanavalin A) (Jack bean).
(5) From the seeds of the gorse, Ulex europaeus and of the broom, Sarothamnus scoparius L-fucosyl-specific lectins were isolated by affinity chromatography on L-fucosyl-epoxy-Sepharose.
(6) "People keep rushing out of their houses, hands on their heads in disbelief asking me if I've heard the news," said the 32-year-old as she delivered letters in Gorse Hill.
(7) The gorse lectin bound to a 220 000 component in B-cells which was not labeled in T-cells.
(8) A varying staining pattern was found with lectins from castor bean (RCA I), soy bean (SBA) and gorse (UEA I) indicating a heterogeneity of the tumor cell population.
(9) Neither Gorse, RCA II nor PNA had any detectable inhibitory effects on macrocyst development leaving the appearance of increased PNA receptors at the giant cell surface as an enigma.
(10) The following lectins were used: wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), horseshoe crab agglutinin (LPA), gorse agglutinin (UEA I), peanut agglutinin (PNA), soybean agglutinin (SBA), and horse gram agglutinin (DBA).
(11) The membrane components of equine, porcine and ovine erythrocytes were separated by sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and subsequently incubated with the radioiodinated lectins from lentils (LCH), castorbeans (RCA), Phaseolus beans (L-PHA), gorse seeds (UEH-F) and from vineyard snails (HPA).
(12) Plockton coral beach Photograph: Alamy Distance 1 ¼ miles Start Plockton, grid ref: NG789329 Further information and maps There is something truly magical about emerging through a thicket of trees and gorse onto a hidden white sandy beach strewn with seaweed and rockpools.
(13) Bracken, gorse and dry moorland grass appear to be aflame.
(14) Our Jeep bounces between boulders and dust-covered gorse bushes before beginning a bone-jolting descent from the high ridge into a deep valley.
(15) Executive Principal The Gorse Academics Trust, Leeds.
(16) Concanavalin A (Con A), wheatgerm agglutinin (WGA), succinylated WGA (s-WGA) and agglutinin from gorse (UEA I) stained the cytoplasm of most germ cells as well as the spermatid acrosome.
(17) In animals and healthy humans the alcaloid of the gorse sparteine sulphate has been reported not to cause those side effects.
(18) In Worcester, once regarded as a byword for comfortable middle England and home to the sought-after voter demographic “ Worcester Woman ”, 23% of children overall are classed as in poverty, though in one council ward, Gorse Hill, this rises to 44%.
(19) No consistent differences could be detected in the electrophoretic patterns of 1 degree and 2 degrees tumour using RCA-60 or gorse.
(20) The mini hedges don’t disappoint – we take the long downhill Cow Path, lined with hawthorn and gorse which have entwined to form a low arch over the path.