(n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.
(n.) Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk.
(n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used.
(n.) An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
(v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
(v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(2) Scholars on both sides of the Pacific say they are alarmed at the potential for US-China relations to break down if Trump continues to raise Beijing’s hackles over sensitive issues such as Taiwan.
(3) Those views have raised hackles among some US conservatives.
(4) A homogeneous batch of dew retted hackled flax was divided into two portions.
(5) The decision raised hackles both in Washington, where it was feared it would tarnish the credibility of the war effort, and in Afghanistan, where many local people concluded the Americans were not serious about rooting out corruption and misgovernance.
(6) Defenders of free speech have had their hackles raised and Boris laughs all the way to City Hall.
(7) It does like to nudge you towards paying, which may raise hackles of some fans of the original.
(8) David Cameron raised the hackles of critics when he announced the idea at an EU summit last month , with some comparing it to Australia’s controversial interception policy.
(9) More often, standups raise hackles not by Gervais-level crassness, but by sacrificing propriety in their race to be funniest first when news breaks.
(10) Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles.
(11) On one of the biggest issues facing Europe – policy towards Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin of Russia – she and Italy are seen as being overly pro-Russian, raising hackles, especially in eastern Europe where Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, would also like the job.
(12) I think we were just scratchy and hackles up and defensive.
(13) At least one reporter has made the mistake recently of referring to him as a "wheeler-dealer" prompting him to stomp off in disgust, his hackles raised by all the tired barrow-boy, Arthur Daley analogies.
(14) When Bill Gates handpicked Dryden to be his head of agriculture in 2010, he came with a CV certain to raise the hackles of anyone who distrusted global agribusiness.
(15) Hastings Law professor Ahmed Ghappour recently called that effort “possibly the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception.” But the FBI is trying to alter those rules without raising privacy advocates’ hackles (though luckily some have caught on ).
(16) These would raise hackles with several countries, the Conservative MEP Ian Duncan warned.
(17) BitTorrent (the company) works with some artists to distribute music and multimedia bundles for free, but its name still raises hackles within the music industry over the impact of BitTorrent (the technology) on piracy.
(18) So what's really raising hackles is not the number of people who cannot communicate or be communicated with.
(19) Party leader Natalie Bennett has raised hackles by backing a new school in north London.
(20) That has also raised hackles everywhere else because of perceived high-handed prescriptions from Berlin combined with Merkel's maddening caution and refusal to be rushed in a crisis.
Nape
Definition:
(n.) The back part of the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total length, nape-rump length and tail length were recorded for each embryo and hatchling.
(2) Cooling the nape of the neck is said to induce reflex constriction of the mucosal vessels of the nose, but there is no general agreement in the literature on the benefit of an ice pack as an adjuvant treatment of epistaxis.
(3) Down's syndrome diagnosis is presently evaluated by some more specific ultrasonographic signs such as fetal nape or femur length measurements and by new biological parameters such as hCG assay.
(4) A pinch to the nape of the neck of mice, by application of a noxious clip, produces analgesia and immobility.
(5) Thus, low analgesic doses of local anesthetics injected into the nape of the neck prevented noxious clip from inducing analgesia but immobility was still evident.
(6) There are typical arsenic melanisms on the forehad-temple-rim where the hair begins to grow, on the nape of the neck, on the shoulders, chest, arms, and on the back of the hands which pass into precanceroses and carcinomas.
(7) The following electrode arrays were evaluated (1) vertex-neck, (2) forehead-ear canal (Enhancer I), and (3) vertex-nape.
(8) A case is reported of a man with a deep nape stabwound completely severing the medulla of the spine.
(9) A heat-stable factor (HSF) purified from the spleen of a patient with Gaucher's disease significantly increased the sensitivity of the rat liver beta-glucosidase to all of the NAPE derivatives.
(10) Passing subcutaneously, the catheters then emerged at the nape of the neck and were sealed by heating.
(11) The binding of chlorophenoxyisobutyric (CPIB), tibric (TA) and nicotinic (NA) acids and CPIB ethyl ester (Clofibrate), TA and NA isopropyl esters (TAPE and NAPE) to human lipoproteins of low density of different classes (LDL2, LDL1 and VLDL) and high density (HDL) were studied by equilibrium dialysis and Sephadex gel filtration.
(12) Intraoperative unilateral occipital artery ligation, with extensive undermining to the nape of the neck on only one side, can minimize the risk of postoperative scalp necrosis or telogen effluvium.
(13) On CT scan a round low dense lesion with clear margin was found in the nape.
(14) However, the vertex-neck and vertex-nape combinations are best for estimating auditory sensitivity because they gave the largest wave V amplitudes and 10-dB lower electrophysiologic thresholds.
(15) An exaggerated unilateral foot-nape posture is held responsible for a complete obstacle to parturition.
(16) The second patient suffered avulsion of the entire scalp as well as the forehead skin and nape of the neck.
(17) Since his second year, the papulonodular lesions have gradually merged into large confluent plaques, particularly on the face, nape, and axillae.
(18) A morphologic abnormality was seen of the nape which could not be interpreted.
(19) The toxoid was injected subcutaneously at the nape of the neck at dose levels of 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 ml in Groups II, III, and IV, respectively.
(20) This study tested the generalizations that cutaneous pressure will elicit immobility, that there is a relationship between the intensity of cutaneous pressure and the duration of immobility, and that the localization or body surfaces, particularly the upper dorsal area or the nape of the neck, is more susceptible to immobility.