(n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
(n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.
(n.) Small particles of earth; gravel.
(n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(2) There's apparently a 30-seat cinema in Paris that's played The Holy Grail for three decades.
(3) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(4) Instead, the ARTPOP app has begun to sound like an interactive advertisement, similar to the app for Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail.
(5) In June, Jay-Z struck a deal with Samsung to give away 1m early copies of his Magna Carta Holy Grail album to fans who downloaded an Android app.
(6) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(7) At 7.44pm ET Brian Fallon, former press secretary to Hillary Clinton, tweeted breathlessly: “The holy grail.” Ninety-eight minutes and a somewhat anticlimactic Rachel Maddow Show later, Fallon tweeted again: “Dems should return focus to Trumpcare tomorrow & the millions it will leave uninsured, not get distracted by two pages from ’05 tax return.” Trump had to pay millions due to tax law he aims to abolish, leaked return shows Read more It was neither the holy grail, nor the smoking gun, nor the long-awaited release of all Trump’s tax returns with all their potential Russian secrets.
(8) The homeobox gene en, homologous to the gene en-grailed of Drosophila, is expressed in the metencephalic-mesencephalic segment of the vertebrate neural tube.
(9) The Commission E Monograph, a German document regarded as the holy grail of herbalism by orthodox doctors, makes all kinds of pronouncements about the herb's "contraindications" - the circumstances in which it should not be prescribed.
(10) The Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, said the document, which sets out the rule of law, was “mystical in some way, almost like the search for the Holy Grail”.
(11) Magna Carta Holy Grail received nods in almost every rap category, outpacing LPs by Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
(12) That "pocket of calm" is every Olympian's holy grail.
(13) But Stephen Greenhalgh, Johnson’s deputy mayor for policing, believes devolution would deliver a better service and allow a greater focus on the holy grail of the justice system: reducing repeat offending.
(14) The government has come up with the holy grail – a tax hike that is popular with the electorate (just as it did with the 1997 windfall tax on utilities).
(15) Michael Palin, actor Having done The Holy Grail and Life of Brian , we found ourselves with a much bigger budget for The Meaning of Life.
(16) It was astonishing evidence of Salmond and the SNP having found a route to the Holy Grail of international politics: the support of young people.
(17) The disenchanted working class is the holy grail for vote-catchers, although no one actually seems to like its members.
(18) What Duncan Smith offers appears to be the holy grail of social policy: simplifying the labyrinthine benefits system so that it guarantees welfare payments to a certain level of earnings, and then sees anyone who gets into work lose their entitlements at a fixed rate.
(19) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(20) The TPP is an effort to use the holy grail of free trade to impose conditions and override domestic laws in a way that would be almost impossible if the proposed measures had to go through the normal legislative process.
Trail
Definition:
(v. t.) To hunt by the track; to track.
(v. t.) To draw or drag, as along the ground.
(v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
(v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
(v. t.) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
(v. i.) To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
(v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
(n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
(n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
(n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
(n.) Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
(n.) Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.
(n.) A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.
(n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
(n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
(n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(4) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(5) The woman Hollande describes as the "love of his life" has been present on the campaign trail over the past few weeks, but always behind him, or on the sidelines.
(6) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
(7) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(8) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(9) Calls to defund the organisation have proliferated among Republicans in Congress and on the 2016 presidential campaign trail .
(10) But while he may remain fairly invisible on the campaign trail for a while longer, his presence is already being felt behind closed doors.
(11) The Tories are in first place, on 34%, while Labour trails in third on 28%.
(12) The trailing edge of the flagellum, which is thickly covered by scales and was assumed until now to lack receptors, contains both mechanosensitive and contact chemoreceptors.
(13) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(14) As was the case against Chelsea's two buses a fortnight ago, Liverpool struggled to find solutions against the visitors' 5-4-1 formation, trailed to Martin Skrtel's fourth own goal in one season, a Premier League record, and could have been further behind when Yoan Gouffran raced through only to be denied by Simon Mignolet.
(15) Debenhams said it also trailed behind its rivals in terms of convenience because it lacked a competitive range of premium delivery options.
(16) In a speech focused on national security, Liam Fox , who is trailing his fellow Tory leadership candidates in terms of support from MPs, hinted that he had doubts that a candidate without significant experience could handle the job.
(17) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
(18) Simon Ingram, editor of hillwalking magazine Trail ( livefortheoutdoors.com)
(19) Do one-day or shorter sections of the route between Les Houches and Argentière, or tackle the Tour du Mont Blanc, a strenuous 250km trail that takes in the most naturally dramatic slices of Switzerland, France and Italy.
(20) Its main rival, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Eurosceptic nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), trailed on 30%.