(a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
(a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
(a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
(n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
(n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
(n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
(2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(3) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.
(4) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
(5) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(6) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
(7) His photographs are hanging all over my house today.
(8) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(9) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
(10) 68 min: Ronaldo gets booked for hanging out of Ginaluca Zambrotta.
(11) At the time of the most recent follow-up, the success rate was 64% in the hang-back group and 85% in the conventional group.
(12) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(13) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(14) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
(15) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
(16) Sixteen percent of the treatment sample were found to be abusive pattern drinkers; that is, persons who report not only drinking heavily but also spending a great deal of time hanging out on the street, getting high, and consuming many other additional drugs.
(17) Ellen White: It depends what group you hang around in.
(18) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(19) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
(20) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.
Wattle
Definition:
(n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
(n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
(n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
(n.) Barbel of a fish.
(n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
(n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
(v. t.) To bind with twigs.
(v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
(v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group given the small multilamellar positively charged liposome also showed significant delayed-type hypersensitivity (wattle swelling) (P less than or equal to 0.05).
(2) Beta stimulation with isoproterenol markedly reduced R and increased Q in normothermic birds, suggesting the presence of beta receptors in the wattle vasculature.
(3) The presence of cytoplasmic dihydrotestosterone receptors in the lungs, the comb, the wattle, and the ear lobes of the cock was demonstrated by sucrose density-gradient centrifugation.
(4) The mud and wattle huts in which pupils were taught have now been replaced with seven permanent classrooms.
(5) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian When she was a child living in a Tudor cottage in rural Cheshire, the walls were lumpy, and badly painted, wattle and daub.
(6) The faecal output of strongyle eggs was significantly related to breed, polledness, presence of wattles and age.
(7) Wattle reactions to an Eimeria tenella antigen and phytohemagglutinin (PHA) were studied in chickens infected with E. tenella.
(8) Until now the school has used temporary mud-and-wattle structures with grass-thatched roofs that sway in the wind or, in rough weather, simply collapse.
(9) Instead, let Australia summon up the sentiments of Henry Lawson's iconic 1891 poem, Freedom on the Wallaby , for today it is not the rebel's blood but a callous disregard for the vulnerable that "stains the wattle".
(10) The preoperative diagnosis may be suggested by the "turkey wattle sign" (i.e., fluctuation in the size of the mass with bending the head downward).
(11) Nitrogen and atom-% 15N excess (15N') were determined in the bones, the feathers and the remaining body (skin, lungs and windpipe, head with comb and wattle, lower leg without bones and with skin, pancreas and fatty tissue).
(12) Alpha blockade with phenoxybenzamine also resulted in pronounced vasodilatation, suggesting tonic alpha-sympathetic tone in the wattle vasculature under normothermic conditions.
(13) During moderate cooling, vasoconstriction in the feet and wattles of broody hens (but not of non-broody hens) freed non-nutrient blood flow for redistribution to the brood patches.
(14) Although delayed hypersensitivity was confirmed by delayed wattle reaction in 2-month-old chickens sensitized with living S pullorum, the sensitization did not markedly affect phagocytic and bactericidal activities.
(15) 5-HT and NE each depressed significantly the wattle response in 3 and 6 week old chicks.
(16) At 6 weeks of age, chickens were injected with 100 micrograms purified PHA-P. Wattle thickness measurements were taken 4, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h after injection.
(17) Injections were given 12 h prior to, at the time of, and at 12 and 24 h after an intradermal wattle injection with PHA-P.
(18) A rare case of a symptomatic venous anomaly of the parotid gland is described in a 14-year-old female patient who presented with Turkey Wattle sign.
(19) The study was undertaken in spring (n = 263 goats) and autumn (n = 165); the breed, age, polledness, absence or presence of wattles, and reproductive status were recorded for each goat.
(20) A double-wattled cassowary died following a clinical course of severe diarrhea, anorexia, and polydypsia.