(n.) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
(n.) A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal.
(n.) A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.
(a.) Wanton; lewd; low; base.
(v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) If sometimes these women seem more harridans or harlots than heroines, we might remember Anne Elliot in Persuasion: "Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story .
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A museum worker adjusts a contemporary corset by House of Harlot.
(3) In her book Mother Ireland , O’Brien described Ireland as “a woman, a womb, a cave, a cow, a Rosaleen, a sow, a bride, a harlot and of course, the gaunt Hag of Beare”.
(4) The exhibition, sponsored by Agent Provocateur, also includes nightgowns from the 1930s and a rubber corset from House of Harlot made for the exhibition.
(5) They're behaving like every harlot in history ," while senior Tories described Nick Clegg's "flirtation" with Labour as "sordid".
(6) Tony Wright, the national affairs editor of the Age newspaper in Melbourne, said: "If you'd hauled a semi-trailer load of fighting rum, a caravan of harlots and a boxing tent into a mining camp on payday, you'd hardly predict the level of crazed viciousness that has busted out in what's left of the heart of the Labor party."
(7) (Nick Clegg, since the earliest coalition negotiations, has been described by critics as a "harlot", a "flirt" and "arm candy".)
(8) Hogarth's 'Modern Moral History' paintings, such as "The Harlot's Progress" had proved very popular and had provided him with some measure of financial security and fame, but his ambition was to be a 'great art' painter--that is, a recognised painter of grand themes of an historical, religious or classical nature considered worthy and acceptable by the art critics--helping to place artists on a level with moral philosophers and epic poets in stature.
(9) Yet he was tempted by the freedom to pick his own repertoire without the day-to-day anxieties of running a theatre, telling the Guardian's Michael Billington: "I have power without responsibility, which has been the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages."
Pug
Definition:
(v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
(v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.
(n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
(n.) A pug mill.
(n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
(n.) A name for a monkey.
(n.) A name for a fox.
(n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
(n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
(n.) A prostitute.
(n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
(n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Syncope and sudden death occurs in certain purebred Pug dogs which have been found to have intermittent sinus pauses and paroxysmal second degree heart block on electrocardiographic (ECG) study.
(2) "gamma"-type phages contain DNA molecules of uniform size (about 52 kb) and of variable ends; their genome is able to promote highly efficient transduction (pug type) regardless of the origin of the right arm.
(3) Clinical and pathologic features of a sporadic, necrotizing meningoencephalitis affecting adolescent and mature pug dogs are described.
(4) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
(5) When PUG was tested for synergistic inhibition in the presence of caffeine, the Dixon plots of reciprocal velocity versus PUG concentration at different fixed caffeine concentrations provided intersecting lines with interaction constant (alpha) values of 0.95-1.38, indicating that the binding of one inhibitor is not significantly affected by the binding of the other.
(6) In solution, PUG was shown to be a potent inhibitor of phosphorylase b, directly competitive with alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (glucose-1-P) (Ki = 0.40 mM) and noncompetitive with respect to glycogen and AMP.
(7) The properties of the second channel (channel 2), which is the more extensive channel, have been investigated with the potent beta-glycosidase inhibitor D-gluconohydroximo-1,5-lactone N-phenylurethane (PUG).
(8) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
(9) Laryngeal obstruction occurs commonly in brachycephalic dogs (Bulldog, Boxer, Boston Terrier, Pug, Pikingese).
(10) A six-year old female pug had very severe dysponea.
(11) Lentiginosis profusa was diagnosed in 3 pedigree Pugs namely two unrelated parents and their female offspring.
(12) (1988) Biochemistry 27, 6733-6741] has shown that PUG binds in the catalytic site of phosphorylase b crystals with its gluconohydroximolactone moiety occupying a position similar to that observed for other glucosyl compounds and the N-phenylurethane side chain fitting into an adjacent cavity with little conformational change in the enzyme.
(13) However, in the presence of AMP, PUG exhibited complex kinetics, acting as a noncompetitive inhibitor with respect to glucose-1-P, while a twofold decrease of PUG binding to the enzyme-AMP-glycogen complex was observed.
(14) As he spoke an excited pug dog set itself the challenge of leaping backwards and forwards across his latest creation, Boyhood Line, a stripe of brilliant white limestone in the lush grass.
(15) The tale, drawn in the retro style of the golden age of adventure comics, portrays Johnson as a "dashing, pug-nosed chap, gallivanting around the world in search of danger and adventure".
(16) Christmas Pugs Snuggly pugs 3. iPad Art - Morgan Freeman Finger Painting Art with heart 5.
(17) The effect of the beta-glycosidase inhibitor D-gluconohydroximo-1,5-lactone-N-phenylurethane (PUG) on the kinetic and ultracentrifugation properties of glycogen phosphorylase has been studied.
(18) Ultracentrifugation experiments demonstrated that PUG does not cause any significant dissociation of phosphorylase alpha tetramer.
(19) Similarities among them were striking and consisted of varying combinations of the following features: moderate growth retardation; mild to severe mental retardation; facial elongation with frontal bossing; primary telecanthus and downward-slanting palpebral fissures; broad, flat, nose bridge and pug nose; pouting lower lip and blunt, square chin; umbilical eversion; deep sacral pit; and, in males, moderate to severe external genital anomalies ranging from mild hypospadias to genital ambiguity.
(20) Furthermore the dimerization of phosphorylase alpha by glucose is completely prevented in the presence of PUG.