(n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
(n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
(n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
(n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
(n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
(n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
(n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
(n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
(n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
(n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
(n.) The Ionic volute.
(n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
(n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
(n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
(n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
(n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
(n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
(n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
(n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
(v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
Example Sentences:
(1) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(2) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(3) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(4) This study presents data supporting a selective antinociceptive role for DA at the spinal level, where it has a widespread antinociceptive influence, on cells in both the superficial and deeper dorsal horn.
(5) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
(6) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
(7) Differential pulse voltammetry used in combination with an electrochemically treated carbon fiber electrode allowed the detection of 5-hydroxyindoles (5-HI) in the dorsal horn of the urethane-anesthetized rat.
(8) Uterine blood flow to both uterine horns was measured by microsphere and by tritiated water steady-state diffusion methodology.
(9) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(10) A few with low endometrial receptor levels had normal livers but at least one sterile uterine horn.
(11) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
(12) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(13) Subpopulations of DRG neurones that subserve distinct sensory modalities project to discrete regions in the dorsal horn.
(14) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
(15) In ventral horn motoneurons and neurons of nucleus dorso-medialis (C1) pronounced staining was found after a total dosage of 1200 micrograms HgCl2.
(16) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
(17) Postmortem examination showed axonal pathology of the anterior horns and roots of the spinal cord, and white matter hypoplasia of the brain.
(18) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
(19) Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) has been identified recently in fibers and cell bodies in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, but its function in the dorsal horn is not known.
(20) With immunocytochemical techniques, SP immunoreactivity (SP-I) and CGRP-I were localized in myometrial nerves throughout the uterine horns, with nerves immunoreactive for CGRP being the more numerous.
Pollard
Definition:
(n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
(n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
(n.) A fish, the chub.
(n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
(n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
(v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arts broadcaster Lord Bragg said Hall, who moves to the BBC from running the Royal Opera House, had no option but to cut a swath through BBC middle management in the wake of the damning conclusions of the Pollard report into the Savile crisis.
(2) I welcome Nick Pollard's recommendations in this area.
(3) Pollard told a press conference following the publication of his report on Wednesday: "Perhaps the most worrying aspect was not the decision to drop the [Newsnight] story but complete inability to deal with the events that followed for a few months after the Savile investigation was halted."
(4) Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, said in a press conference after the publication of the Pollard report that it was taking legal advice about Entwistle's payoff, which has attracted significant criticism.
(5) Distressed, ashamed and hopeless – the experience of being ‘fit for work’ | Dawn Howley Read more Tom Pollard, the policy and campaigns manager at the mental health charity Mind , said: “This worrying study shines a light on the damaging impact the work capability assessments can have on people’s mental health.
(6) The basis of Pollard's arrest was a memo he had written for the Sun newsdesk in 2009 after receiving a call from a woman in Manchester.
(7) The archaeologist and television presenter Tony Pollard wrote : "#twittersilence?
(8) Stephen Pollard, the lawyer representing Rose, previously defended the Barings Bank rogue trader Nick Leeson and property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz in his successful fight against the SFO.
(9) "We have to be clear at that point I didn't know what that dark side was," Younghusband told Pollard's panel.
(10) I'm sure we'll learn more from the Pollard review, but it increasingly looks as if the editor, Peter Rippon, really wasn't sure of the story his journalists had brought him.
(11) One senior BBC executive resigned and another three were moved from their jobs following the publication of the 185-page report by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News.
(12) Entwistle, who left the BBC after 54 days as director-general, told Pollard that the question of how to handle the death of a celebrity with a dubious personal life was one of judgment.
(13) Pollard said he believed that police "hoped" they would uncover a phone-hacking scandal similar to that at the now-closed News of the World.
(14) The huge jump is in part due to payouts of £470,000, plus £107,000 in legal fees relating to the Pollard inquiry into the Savile scandal, to former director general George Entwistle, who left after just 54 days in November as the Jimmy Savile scandal engulfed the BBC.
(15) Glaciologists call such an event a collapse, but Pollard said it would not be rapid, and would take thousands of years to unfold: "We had a bit of a debate whether to use the word collapse in the paper.
(16) Pollard was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and subjected to a year-long investigation based on a memo he had written to his bosses at the paper in 2009.
(17) Pollard said that he feels the 60 peer reviews investigated by the DWP since February 2012 should be examined together and the results of any lessons learned or key issues that may emerge published.
(18) The Pollard transcripts revealed how little preparation Entwistle had before his disastrous appearance before MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee in October last year.
(19) Witnesses have been questioned for several hours in many cases, with Pollard presiding over a hearing in which past and present BBC executives are questioned by Alan Maclean QC , who advised Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell during the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly – and whose findings led to the resignation of another BBC director general.
(20) He will also have to deal with the crisis of leadership exposed by the Pollard review.