(n.) A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Laidlaw gently pawed her into position, confirming without doubt the date of the lunch, challenging the strength of her memory until she insisted she was absolutely certain and then, like Hannibal Lecter in a horsehair wig, softly and courteously, he cut out her heart: the incident with Kemp had happened six weeks after the lunch.
(2) But then I have to remind myself that the chair I'm sitting on – which I inherited from my aunt – is the one I've upholstered, with horsehair, and covered in a fabric of my choosing.
(3) ", we cannot but recall Kafka himself, trapped within the wall of orchestral sound, and unable to suspend disbelief in the sound of catgut scraped against horsehair.
(4) I wanted to bring them back to life, but in the traditional way: no foam or staple guns, it had to be horsehair, tacks and webbing.
(5) A plastic re-imagined version of a Roman horsehair body scraper, it means you don't have to use a towel, which therefore saves 237‑310 kWh per year in electricity by minimising washing.
(6) The dust from the cotton-horsehair mattresses had a significantly higher allergenic activity than from those of polyester-foam.
(7) The beaded fringing of the corset burrowed into the horsehair to look like lice, the effect beautiful and disturbing.
Mane
Definition:
(n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(2) This feeling of trepidation isn't helped when I spot him, standing out a mile among the post-work drinkers and carefully dressed-down new-media types, not just because of his mane of blond hair but because his face is covered in faded bruising and the remains of a black eye.
(3) Nucleoid supercoiling can be increased by adding oxolinic acid to a strain that carries three topoisomerase mutations: delta topA, gyrB225, and gyrA (Nalr) (S. H. Manes, G. J. Pruss, and K. Drlica, J. Bacteriol.
(4) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(5) Cecil was a 13-year-old lion with a distinctive black mane, and was reportedly lured out of the national park with bait earlier this month, before being killed with a bow and arrow and rifle, before being skinned and beheaded.
(6) There are pictures of it with its huge, black mane draped on their grand piano.
(7) Koeman believes Southampton are braced for another summer in which key players such as Victor Wanyama and Sadio Mane are likely to attract admiring glances themselves.
(8) These data suggest that nocturnal coadministration of ranitidine 300 mg reduces almost completely gastroduodenal lesions evoked by acetylsalicylic acid 300 mg mane.
(9) The shirts-and-jeans combos might not be for everyone, but there's no denying the quiet confidence, the soft but authoritative Scouse accent, the silver mane gelled to stiff peaks ...
(10) What seemed at first a whoa-ful tale to be reined in, has now become a bit of a mare, neigh an un-fetlocked disaster, as it gallops into one of the week's mane stories.
(11) The severity of each foot was assessed before and after corrective treatment according to the classification of Manes et al., 1975.
(12) Now, increasing numbers of moon, compass, blue and lion's mane jellyfish have been reported.
(13) The charity warned that lion's mane jellyfish have a powerful sting and anyone taking part in the survey should look but not touch jellyfish that they see.
(14) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
(15) Palmer, a keen big game hunter who posts pictures of his kills on social media, is said to have paid around $50,000 (£32,000) for the chance to kill Cecil, a protected 13-year-old lion famous for his black-fringed mane, in Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park earlier this month.
(16) Gucci Mane , the rapper who plays Alien's menacing nemesis, was in prison when Korine offered him the job.
(17) If positions coding for the peptide-binding region of the class II beta chains are eliminated from sequence comparisons, the Mane-DRB genes appear to be most closely related to the human (HLA) DRB1 genes of the DRw52 group.
(18) An Ivory Coast fan waits for the start of the Group C football match between Colombia and Ivory Coast at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia during the 2014 World Cup.
(19) - Our results demonstrate for the first time that omeprazole 20 mg mane is superior to ranitidine 150 mg b.i.d.
(20) Only 7 amino acid substitutions exist between the LS174T cell enzyme and the alkaline phosphatase encoded by the germ cell alkaline phosphatase genomic DNA clone isolated by Millan and Manes (Proc.