(n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc.
(n.) A despicable person.
(n.) A houndfish.
(n.) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
(n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
(v. t.) To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.
(v. t.) To hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(2) "I was hounded by media from all over the world last year.
(3) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
(4) The mean concentration of urate in the serum of 80 Dalmatian Coach Hounds was approximately double that in the serum of 99 dogs of other breeds.
(5) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(6) The association of this infection in Basset Hounds suggests an inherited immunologic defect.
(7) Last February, Freedom survived not the first of attempts to hound it out, after it was firebombed, most likely by far-right activists.
(8) He's hounded out of town in the most hysterical way, but the film is reckless with its logic and fails to observe due processes of plot, milieu, verisimilitude – massive failings when dealing with such a sensitive subject.
(9) Most of more than 20 groups contacted by the Guardian reported dozens of new recruits, with children as young as four and six riding to hounds for the first time.
(10) They face continuous harassment in Kazakhstan and Vietnam , are under surveillance in the UK , and get hounded by tax authorities in Canada and India.
(11) "The constant hounding through so many different mediums and the total lack of privacy or being able to shake him off compounded the fear and made me feel that I would never, ever be free."
(12) How much poorer would British theatre be without productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , the Real Inspector Hound or Travesties .
(13) But in addition to the grief, there was real anger, because many people feel that Swartz had been hounded to his death by aggressive federal prosecutors.
(14) Billie had just come out of Doctor Who so it was a weird time – the paparazzi were hounding her and I think Marsh even became our getaway driver a few times, the poor man.
(15) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
(16) In The Hound of the Baskervilles, locals live in fear of Selden, an escaped murderer who roams Dartmoor.
(17) Like Ashdown and Kennedy, they get elected then are either ignored or hounded.
(18) Hounding Germans out of work half a century after the last war is altogether different.
(19) Fearing stories of haunted hounds and curses, I’m not sure I want to hear it.
(20) The environment for expressing opinion and writing has become harsher and harsher in recent years.” Self-censorship was on the rise as writers and publishers tried to second-guess what was acceptable under the new political climate, in which government critics have been hounded or even jailed.
Mutt
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The name gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) was given to the porcine and avian heptacosapeptides by McDonald and Mutt.
(2) Such mutants were isolated by using mutT mutagenesis and an enrichment procedure devised to favor the growth of individuals that could form a pellicle in static broth containing alpha-methylmannoside, an inhibitor of erythrocyte binding and pellicle formation.
(3) Previous studies have shown that the mutT, mutH, mutL and mutS mutators of Escherichia coli confer a marked selective advantage on their respective hosts in competition with otherwise isogenic wild-type strains.
(4) 206, 9-16) and indicate that the first of the potential initiation codons (position 164) of the open reading frame in the PvuII fragment carrying the mutT gene is the site of initiation of translation of the 15,000-Da polypeptide.
(5) As Brodie waited to collect a back-pass, the mutt flew at him, knocking the Scotsman to the ground; he was stretchered off, having shattered his kneecap.
(6) Most of the mutants obtained had high spontaneous mutation rates and mapped close to the previously known mutators mutT, mutS, mutR, uvrE and mutL.
(7) The MutT protein, which prevents AT----CG transversions during DNA replication, hydrolyzes nucleoside triphosphates to yield nucleoside monophosphates and pyrophosphate.
(8) Specific labelling of plasmid-encoded proteins by the maxicell method revealed that mutT codes for a polypeptide of about 15,000 daltons.
(9) Obama, at his first press conference after the election, said the family preference was for a dog from a shelter - "a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me".
(10) Mutt and Jorpes (49) originally isolated cholecystokinin (CCK) from porcine intestine.
(11) This error-avoiding process is catalysed by a protein encoded by the mutT gene of Escherichia coli, mutations of which increase the occurrence of A.T----C.G transversions 100 to 10,000 times the level of the wild type.
(12) These properties of the human 8-oxodGTPase are similar to those observed with the E. coli MutT protein, suggesting that the function of protecting the genetic information from the threat of endogenous oxygen radicals is widely distributed in organisms.
(13) However, the A.G mispairs normally prevented by the mutT function are refractory to mismatch repair, indicating that they may represent a structurally distinct class.
(14) Escherichia coli mutT strains are strong mutators yielding only A.T----C.G transversion mutations.
(15) Except for mutants of mutT type, these mutators also showed high mutability by bromouracil.
(16) A total of 103 ewes from the breeds Black mutt., Texel, Finn.
(17) The mutT nucleoside triphosphatase, which prevents AT----CG transversions during DNA replication, has been crystallized from ammonium sulfate utilizing a novel technique involving vapor diffusion in capillaries.
(18) We present biochemical evidence demonstrating that MutY glycosylase is an important part of a repair system that includes the MutM and MutT proteins.
(19) On the basis of the template specificity of the mutT effect in vitro, we conclude that the mutT effect involves the aberrant processing of A.G rather than T.C mispairs.
(20) We have analyzed the interaction between mutD5 and mutT-induced A:T-->C:G transversions by measuring reversion frequencies in mutD5 and mutT single mutator strains and mutD5mutT double mutator strains using the well-characterized trpA58 and trpA88 alleles.