(n.) A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
(n.) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.
(n.) A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom.
(v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results suggest that the ACTH-containing part of the hypothalamus around the PVH is crucially involved in the organization of grooming behaviour.
(2) Thus, D1 receptor-mediated grooming and perioral movements seem to be exceptions to the otherwise general finding that co-stimulation of the two receptor subtypes needed for the expression of D1 or D2 agonist effects in normosensitive rats and mice.
(3) These videotaped responses were then scored for a variety of grooming and other behaviours.
(4) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
(5) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
(6) Females significantly predominated in the second and the third week in ambulatory activity, in entering central fields and in the frequency of grooming periods and in the third and fourth week also in grooming duration.
(7) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(8) All three drugs reduced the amount of bombesin-induced grooming.
(9) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(10) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
(11) This is training that predators rely upon,” she says in the book, “It is, perhaps, a form of gender-wide grooming.” For Caro, the opportunity of the book was to “place the blame where it lies,” she says, “squarely on the shoulders of those who use their power to exploit and damage others.” For all its bleakness, I drew comfort from the stories of the other contributors.
(12) In situations where excessive grooming is elicited by other peptides or by water immersion, TRH does not further activate the operating systems involved in the existing excessive grooming.
(13) This decline was attributed to increased grooming by cattle and was the only apparent mechanism by which resistance was expressed.
(14) Intracerebroventricular but not parenteral application of ACTH has been shown to elicit excessive grooming behavior in rats and mice.
(15) In order to establish whether the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is indispensible for peptide-induced excessive grooming, lesions were placed in the dorsal part of this structure.
(16) After weaning, open field behavior was nearly normal, there was a mild decrease of rearing, grooming and ambulation and an initial preference for the periphery of the open field decreased.
(17) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(18) Exposure of adult male Sprague--Dawley rats to a non-traumatic noise-light stress procedure subsequently increased grooming behavior in a novel environment.
(19) Injection of the same dose of this antagonist analogue did not effect the increased grooming behavior after AVP injection.
(20) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
Groomer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) News of the dogs’ illegal arrival into the country broke shortly after pet groomers Happy Dogz posted a message on their company’s Facebook page, saying it had been a pleasure attending to the superstar’s pooches.
(2) They’re stateless dogs.” The Department of Agriculture was tipped off about an “illegal animal importation” on Tuesday, around the same time groomers posted on social media that they had attended to the stars’ pets.
(3) SN animals self-isolated and were not social-groomers, whereas LC rats socially-groomed and mounted other animals more than controls.
(4) This is a clear indication of just how successful the evil Isis groomers have been in poisoning and brainwashing Talha and kids like him.
(5) High areas of deprivation are targeted by groomers and we have been working with the counter-terrorism unit on a number of projects to overcome this.
(6) Results of examination of 11 other dog groomers suggest that the disease is uncommon in this profession.
(7) A specialist sexual exploitation service told the report that a particular home was repeatedly targeted by groomers, and that new girls coming into the home were likely to be sexually exploited.
(8) Hussain pointed to the murder of Rotherham pensioner Mushin Ahmed, who was racially abused and called a “groomer” before being kicked and punched to death last August.
(9) A dog groomer developed extensive interdigital sinus formation.
(10) I was across from the police station in Rotherham giving an interview to the BBC and somebody drove past and called me a groomer.
(11) Nearly every girl I met talked of the social pressure: the demand to be constantly in touch; the problems of "unfriending"; being in the gaze of people they have barely met; the anxieties about their image; and the horror of looking in while being left out – for them much more pressing than what one girl dubbed "the parental obsession with groomers and porn".
(12) The story originated when pictures of Depp taking his dogs to the local groomer surfaced on social media and authorities warned that the dogs would be put down unless they were flown out of the country in the following two days.
(13) These are individuals who regard Muslims as groomers and paedophiles and they should be deported, and if not deported, eradicated from this country.
(14) When, daily, Muslims are portrayed as terrorists, as sexual groomers, as women oppressors, from forced marriage to FGM, it’s not surprising this sinks in.
(15) Isis is running a sophisticated social media campaign and the community is concerned their faith is being used by hate preachers and internet groomers to manipulate their religion.” Farooq Yunus, from the Zakaria mosque in Savile Town, Dewsbury, said the whole system had failed the boys.