(v. t.) To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
(v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
(v. t.) To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
(n.) Destruction by cutting down.
(n.) Hue; color.
(n.) Shape; form.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disruption by means of the Hews press yielded a more active preparation as compared with ultrasonic disintegration.
(2) I suspect that means he does in fact hew pretty closely to what the Bible says.
(3) The concept of using examination content guidelines as sources for curriculum content is presented, using the ASCP Board of Registry grids and a task list developed for HEW as a basis for proficiency examinations.
(4) During this latter period, training support provided by HEW remained essentially constant, that by the Environmental Protection Agency decreased to less than half, while that from the universities approximately tripled.
(5) On his Twitter feed, the governor said the bus bridge will run from Barclays Center, MetroTech and Hewes St stations, using special lanes up 3rd Avenue, and returning down Lexington Avenue.
(6) Historians Hew Strachan, Max Hastings, Margaret MacMillan, Chris Clark, Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans , Norman Stone and others have answered to Kitchener's Your Country Needs You.
(7) These experiments allow comparison of the properties of TEW lysozyme with those of the hen egg white (HEW) enzyme reported previously (Banerjee, S. K., Holler, E., Hess, G. P., and Rupley, J.
(8) North Korean universities have their own fairly sophisticated Intranet system, though the material posted to it is closely vetted by authorities and hews to propaganda.
(9) Thus, blocking of the lymphocytotoxic response of cystadenocarcinoma patients towards HeW cells may be utilized to monitor the isolation of ovarian carcinoma-associated antigen.
(10) The fictional family bore strong similarities to Franzen’s own, his father a railway engineer, his mother a housewife, although, he says, as “writing becomes more autobiographical, the less it hews to actual lived experience.
(11) The amino acid composition indicated similarities and differences as compared with that of hen egg white (HEW) lysozyme.
(12) Instead, we need to press Labor to hew to its best instincts over the long term, whoever the next prime minister might be.
(13) A cell-mediated cytotoxicity test, quantitated by postlabeling with tritiated thymidine, was used to asses immune reactivity of cancer patients to the HeW cell line derived from serous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary.
(14) The magnitude of the low pH difference spectrum is enhanced by binding of saccharide for HEW and Oxa-62-lysozymes but not for TEW lysozyme.
(15) "The director must hew to the rule of law and accountability," the ACLU's German said.
(16) Palin's speech, like many others, mostly hewed faithfully to Beck's official theme of the rally, which was paying tribute to America's armed forces.
(17) In 1969 a study by an HEW commission documented the need for further legislation.
(18) This Note contends that the Act and related HEW regulations preclude states from exempting health care facilities' research expenditures and education expenditures from the scope of the states' certificate-of-need programs.
(19) Hew Strachan, a prominent military historian who is on the advisory board, has warned that the commemorations "will be repetitive, sterile and possibly even boring" if the centenary turns into "Remembrance Sunday writ large".
(20) HEW's Health Care Financing Administration links uniform reporting and Medicare reimbursement under the provisions of the proposed System for Hospital Uniform Reporting.
Mew
Definition:
(n.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
(v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
(v. i.) To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
(n.) A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.
(n.) A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.
(v. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
(v. i.) To cry as a cat.
(n.) The common cry of a cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Blairs' property portfolio already includes a £3.6m townhouse and an £800,000 adjoining mews house in Connaught Square, London, two flats in Bristol and the constituency home in Trimdon, Co Durham, which Blair bought when he was elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983.
(2) Map Neighbour Iwona Romek said Masood was a keen gardener, who lived in the modern mews house with his wife and young child.
(3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(4) Steven Wood, associate in social housing litigation at Coffin Mew LLP "The housing strategy for England is hailed as 'radical and unashamedly ambitious' but at first blush appears to predominantly be a recycling of ideas that are already out to consultation or at various stages of being enacted by changes in the law.
(5) So "out" becomes "iouuut", and "now" "niouuuw", a bit – with all due respect to her beloved dogs – like the mewing of a cat.
(6) Glutamine synthetase (GS) activity was used as a marker to examine differences in astrocyte development in mice selectively bred for ethanol sensitivity: long sleep (LS), short sleep (SS), mild ethanol withdrawal (MEW), severe ethanol withdrawal (SEW) and control ethanol withdrawal (CEW).
(7) A female infant presented at birth with hypotonia, growth retardation, distinctive facies, multiple congenital anomalies, and a high-pitched mewing cry characteristic of cri du chat syndrome.
(8) We meet once a week to make sure that Jason Mewes stays on the straight and narrow.
(9) Although it indicated the increase in heart water in the crystalloid group, it proved less reliable in the measurement of MEW in this dynamic situation.
(10) It claims that the changes include "wayfinder" signs to help staff find their way around named after BBC TV hits, such as Have I Got Mews, Little Britain's Passage, EastEnders Common, Who Do You Think You Arcade and The Great British Bake Wharf.
(11) A 12-year-old boy with a history of a mewing cry after birth, severe mental retardation, Marfanoid arachnodactyly, general osteomalacia and multiple bone fractures was found to have a de novo 5p;12q chromosomal translocation.
(12) These results indicate that the SCN-mEW circuit in birds may be involved in mediating increases in choroidal blood flow, possibly in response to the levels of retinal illumination.
(13) Anatomical studies in birds have suggested that choroidal blood flow may be regulated by a circuit involving the following serially-connected components: the retina-the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)-the medial subdivision of the nucleus of Edinger-Westphal (mEW)-the ciliary ganglion-the choroidal blood vessels.
(14) Now scaled back to a total of 8,000 homes, the "legacy communities" will be formed from familiar things: terraces and squares, mansion blocks and mews houses.
(15) The Peacock industrial estate, currently fully occupied with garages and other businesses, is to be knocked down in two of the options, and become Peacock Mews.
(16) The cri-du-chat syndrome is characterized by a peculiar high-pitched, mewing cry and can be differentiated from the Wolf syndrome by the different staining characteristics (banding) of chromosomes 4 and 5.
(17) With his wife, Frannie, he bought a mews cottage in Kensington, central London, where he stocked up with luxuries purchased by friends from Harrods and from Christopher's in Jermyn Street, where he had a regular order for a dozen bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne.
(18) The 24-year-old victim is recovering in hospital from injuries to her lower body after the attack, which happened at about 10.40pm on Wednesday night on Lord Street Mews, a cul-de-sac off the Beersbridge Road.
(19) Since moving out of Downing Street, Blair's London home has been a capacious cream and dark brick terrace in Connaught Square, near Hyde Park, with a substantial mews house behind and armed policemen perpetually guarding both.
(20) We found that 1) GS activity in MEW and SEW was higher than in LS and SS during the first 2 weeks of postnatal development, in the forebrain but not in the cerebellum; 2) lower GS activity was observed consistently in all areas examined with the SS mice as compared to the LS; 3) glutamine synthetase activity in MEW and SEW differed significantly from their controls (CEW) during the early developmental period regardless of the brain region examined; however, after 30 days of maturation, GS activity in SEW was higher than that in MEW and CEW in the forebrain.