(v. t.) To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked by counsel assisting the inquest Jeremy Gormly SC whether it was the case that it was not going to be available to any of the three snipers to take a shot unless the glass was breached, he replied: “I believe that to be correct.” Sydney siege: plan to release hostage thwarted by mass breakout, inquest told Read more The officer, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has also rejected suggestions that the sniper at the Westpac building could have taken a shot at Monis at about 7.38pm, when the gunman was observed through a window at the Lindt cafe.
(2) Overseen by New South Wales coroner Michael Barnes, the inquest is being guided by Jeremy Gormly SC, counsel assisting the coroner, who has revealed there are many audio and video recordings from inside the cafe to shed more light on what happened.
(3) Rothman shows more gorm: sometimes chaos is just chaos.
(4) Sydney siege: how a day and night of terror unfolded at the Lindt cafe Read more Asked by counsel assisting the coroner, Jeremy Gormly SC, what he believed Monis was referring to, Morton-Hoffman said: “I believe Monis might have said to me that he wants, he has these two bombs on him but he doesn’t want to blow them up and he needs the police to disarm them ... take them out of the building so that we don’t die.” It was confirmed after the siege ended there were no bombs.
(5) When pressed by counsel assisting the inquest, Jeremy Gormly SC, why the emergency action trigger had not been reached despite a shot being fired, the tactical commander said no hostage had been harmed at that stage.
Worm
Definition:
(n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
(n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
(n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
(n.) Any annelid.
(n.) An insect larva.
(n.) Same as Vermes.
(n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
(n.) A being debased and despised.
(n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
(n.) The thread of a screw.
(n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
(n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
(n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
(n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
(v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
(v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
(v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
(n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
(n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other filarial worms which are known to occur in the RSA are discussed.
(2) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
(3) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
(4) glp-4(bn2ts) mutant worms raised at the restrictive temperature contain approximately 12 germ nuclei, in contrast to the 700-1000 present in wild-type adults.
(5) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
(6) Sera from S. mansoni-infected patients with a high specificity for the diagnostic S. mansoni-antigen cross-reacted with a corresponding component also in S. japonicum worms.
(7) To understand mechanisms involved in sex-specific gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni, a cDNA (fs800) was isolated that hybridized to an 800 nucleotide mRNA present in high levels only in mature female worms.
(8) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
(9) Antigen inhibition studies showed low and high levels of cross-reactivity with anti-worm and anti-egg antibodies, respectively, derived from both Chinese and Philippine patients.
(10) Only eosinophils adhered to 2 h newborn worms and only macrophages to 20 h ones.
(11) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
(12) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
(13) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(14) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
(15) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
(16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
(17) A higher retention rate of intestinal adult worms was observed in hydrocortisone-treated mice.
(18) No evidence was obtained for the involvement of monoamine oxidases in the metabolism of 5-HT in these filarial worms.
(19) Radiocarbons from glucosamine and leucine were incorporated into tissue glycogen of female worms much less than glucose.
(20) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.