(n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
(n.) An ugly old woman.
(n.) A fury; a she-monster.
(n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
(n.) The hagdon or shearwater.
(n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
(v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.
(n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
(n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hag gene and adjacent regions of the B. subtilis chromosome were restriction mapped, and the nucleotide sequence was determined.
(2) (i) The hag gene was expressed constitutively in Fla+ cells.
(3) Group B mutants were segregated from the hag locus and appeared closely linked to the phage adsorption site gene (gtaA), and group C was only loosely linked to hisA1 and thus far contains only one mutant.
(4) The addition of 3M KCl-extracted donor antigen (HAg) to immunosuppressive therapy with 16 Gy total lymphoid irradiation produces a significantly higher fraction of Wistar-Furth (WFu) recipients displaying indefinite survival of heterotopic buffalo (BUF) heart allografts, namely 80 versus 20%.
(5) The atherometric system proved to be useful to distinguish between HAG and LAG.
(6) Lowering the extracellular Ca2+ concentration to 6 or 50 microM attenuated markedly the glycogenolytic and haemodynamic responses to HAG; efflux of Ca2+ from the liver was not observed in response to HAG.
(7) The chromosomal locus containing the wild-type flagellin allele was replaced with a defective allele of the gene (delta hag-633) that contained a 633-base-pair deletion.
(8) (iii) The hag gene was expressed in mutants with flaS, flaT, flaU, and flbC defects.
(9) HAG and HAgC were observed to collect in coated pits whereas wild-type HA was excluded from those structures.
(10) lambda pflaL1 carries all nine fla genes at 43 min, and lambda pflaH14 carries hag and two fla genes at 42.5 min.
(11) Data derived from the responses of 69 adults to the Cornell Medical Index (CMI) indicate that there are no significant differences in psychological or physical illness complaints between adults who have experienced the Old Hag and adults who have not had this experience.
(12) In the presence of chloroquine, which inhibits the exit of receptors from endosomes, HAG and HAgC accumulated in intracellular vesicles.
(13) The positive inotropic responses and coronary perfusion pressure effects elicited by PMA and PDBu were largely prevented by the addition of the PKC inhibitors H7 (6 nM) or HAG (10 nM); however, these drugs were without effect on the negative inotropic response to higher concentrations of both PKC-activating (PMA, PDBu) and non-PKC-activating (alpha PDD, 4 alpha-phorbol) phorbol compounds.
(14) The patients were classified according to the primary cause of death, as high atherosclerotic (HAG) or low atherosclerotic groups (LAG), comprising 1,171 and 872 cases, respectively.
(15) The mononitrobenzylidene-HAGs were more active than the dinitrobenzylidene-HAG compound.
(16) Heat aggregated human (HAG) IgG pretreated with total rheumatoid factors isolated from the serum of rheumatoid arthritis patients showed decreased superoxide generation enhancing activity as compared with HAG pretreated with buffer alone.
(17) Sequencing of this hag gene revealed that it encodes a protein of 272 amino acids (M(r) 29,995).
(18) These results suggested that 5-HT does not release PRL through a direct pituitary action, and that the effect observed in HAG animals could be mediated through the release of a PRL-releasing factor after 5-HT administration.
(19) Of eighteen such transductants sixteen failed to show phase variation, and on transduction back to Salmonella each structural gene for a phase-2 flagellin (or at least for its antigenically determinant part) now behaved as an allele of H1, presumably in consequence of incorporation in the hag region of the K12 recipient, in place of H1-i ah1.
(20) It was shown that at HAg greater than or equal to 25% the strains used for antigen and antibody generation were closely related and at HAg less than or equal to 6.25% belonged to different subtypes.
Hay
Definition:
(n.) A hedge.
(n.) A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
(v. i.) To lay snares for rabbits.
(n.) Grass cut and cured for fodder.
(v. i.) To cut and cure grass for hay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preserving alfalfa as silage and feeding in a TMR to cows in early lactation resulted in greater milk production via increased DMI or improved feed efficiency compared with preserving alfalfa as hay and feeding grain separately.
(2) In 1986, the Fm value from hay was 35% of that from 134CsCl, thus demonstrating the low bioavailability of recently deposited radiocesium.
(3) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(4) 2, measurements were performed on ground alfalfa hay, alfalfa silage, and bromegrass hay containing 42.6, 35, and 66.4% NDF, respectively.
(5) Responding quickly, whatever the channel, is one of the most important things when it comes to how happy clients feel about the interaction they’ve had,” said Simon Hay, co-founder of online learning platform Firefly .
(6) Consumption of alfalfa hay resulted in the highest total viable counts of rumen bacteria but a lower proportion of fibrolytic counts than seen on the grass diets.
(7) The culture maintained at pH 6.7 contained the types of bacteria often found in high concentration in the rumen, whereas the culture maintained at pH 5.0 had a high percentage of bacteria which could not be identified with the major rumen bacteria found in rumens of animals fed alfalfa hay.
(8) 1 and 2, respectively) with ad libitum access to bermudagrass hay.
(9) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(10) Transit time of hay decreased as ADF intake increased.
(11) After 48 hours the animals were given concentrated fodder, after 52 hours exclusively hay.
(12) The verdict in the Hayes trial suggested that the much-maligned organisation was finally making a mark under Green, just at it stepped up investigations into some the biggest companies in Britain, including Tesco, Rolls-Royce and Barclays.
(13) Ewes were fed a 50:50 mixture of alfalfa and prairie hay ad libitum and either no concentrates (C), .4 kg concentrates .
(14) Fractionation by Percoll density centrifugation of peripheral blood leucocyte cells, from atopic subjects with seasonal hay fever, unmasked IgE-B cell populations whose individual capacities to synthesize IgE in vitro were obscured in cultures of unfractionated B cells.
(15) Ruminal ammonia, molar percentage butyrate, and blood ketones, plasma urea N, and plasma molar percentage butyrate were lower when hay was fed.
(16) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(17) The relationship between month of birth and asthma, hay fever and skin sensitization to mixed grass pollen was analysed in a population-based cross-sectional study in Munich and Bavaria 1989-1990 of 6535 10-year-old children.
(18) However, milk yield decreased as ADF in hay increased, particularly at 50% concentrate.
(19) Three trials were conducted at the beginning of lactation, with maize silage, grass silage or grass silage and hay based diets.
(20) This male patient was 35 years old at diagnosis and 38 at time of surgery (respectively 1.2 and 2.5% of cases in the Hay series and 1.9% in the Ruiter series), this lesion affecting mainly age groups under 20 years.