(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.
Kid
Definition:
(n.) A young goat.
(n.) A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.
(n.) A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.
(n.) Gloves made of kid.
(n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
(v. i.) To bring forth a young goat.
(n.) A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
(p. p.) of Kythe.
(v. t.) See Kiddy, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(2) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(3) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(4) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
(5) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(6) ‘Many of our kids become radicalized at some point’ – that’s what the government wants to hear, that’s what these folks want to hear.
(7) But I think this isn’t a problem only kids face – we’ve become a country of trashy readers.
(8) Now, people observe and see if the kids are OK. Based on that, they come around.” Growing acceptance came too late for 15-year-old Musu Allieu, whose parents both died of Ebola.
(9) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
(10) "I think that we've got to treat our kids well, but I don't think we ought to say there's no place ever for smacks.
(11) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
(12) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
(13) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
(14) This study addresses the use and appraisal of services by parents at the KIDS Family Centre, Camden, London, which offers a variety of family-focused services with differing degrees of parental involvement.
(15) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
(16) My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school.
(17) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
(18) Kid can play #sb47 @ lengeldavid @ gdnussports February 4, 2013 No doubt about it.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(20) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.