(n.) One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
(n.) A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
(n.) A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
(n.) One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
(n.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
(n.) A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
Example Sentences:
(1) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(2) In rat brain membranes, binding of BHSCYII and of the relatively unselective radioligand [125I]-Bolton-Hunter eledoisin (BHELE) was saturable, reversible and to an NK3 site.
(3) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(4) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(5) Thus, in pregnancies with Hunter-affected fetuses, enzyme levels did not change in the serum of heterozygous mothers until abortion was performed, while in nonaffected fetuses, ISS increased usually very early in pregnancy--as early as the 6th-12th week.
(6) They are standout talents of their generation and will provide a remarkable conclusion to what we all hope will be an incredible evening, with all profits benefiting Scotland’s children’s charities.” Hunter also plans to set aside some seats at the event for local young people.
(7) Subsequent prenatal analyses suggested heterozygosity for the X-linked Hunter syndrome, and this was confirmed by clonal analysis of fibroblasts of the child after birth.
(8) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(9) We have developed a strategy to select clones isolating the other derivative avoiding fastidious and time consuming technics, mainly based on immunofluorescent screening using MIC 2 and MIC 5 antigenic markers and we have succeeded in isolating in a rodent context the two X;5 translocated derivative chromosomes of a female patient with Hunter syndrome.
(10) In homogenates of guinea pig lung, binding of 125I-Bolton-Hunter-labeled substance P (BHSP), Bolton-Hunter-labeled eledoisin (BHELE), and [125I]iodohistidyl neurokinin A (INKA) was investigated.
(11) Maryann Hunter, a deputy director with responsibility for regulation of foreign banking organisations, declined to tell a Senate judiciary committee hearing if, or when, the Fed received the data leak.
(12) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(13) Blackburn Hunter said that the cumulative impact of those policies meant that Scottish students doing a typical four year Scottish university course would end up owing more than £20,000, while the poorest faced the heaviest debts.
(14) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(15) Hunter's perforator is a vein which joins the great saphenous vein with the femoral vein by passing through the aponeurosis of the adductor (Hunter's) canal, more or less at the junction of the lower and middle thirds of the thigh.
(16) One method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards shot by hunters (n = 2,859) and the other method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards caught in duck traps (n = 865).
(17) This 'bacterial beta 2M', radiolabeled with Bolton-Hunter reagent, was able to exchange into papain-solubilized HLA-B7, as determined by Sephadex G-75 chromatography and immune precipitation, indicating that bacterial beta 2M could complex with the heavy chain of HLA-B7.
(18) A modified method is described for the preparation of stable, high specific activity radioiodinated cholecystokinin (CCK) by its conjugation to 125I-Bolton Hunter reagent (125I-BH).
(19) Alex Salmond describes his own renewable energy vision as "the greatest leap forward since the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture 10,000 years ago".
(20) Nathan Tinkler’s Hunter Sports Group has confirmed it will sell the Newcastle Jets and its A-League licence.
Huntsman
Definition:
(n.) One who hunts, or who practices hunting.
(n.) The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Gringrich, Huntsman and Santorum in a deadheat, each will be seeking to find a message that will resonate and help them break out off the bunch.
(2) Collectively known as "the Huntsman girls" the three young women – piano teacher Mary Anne, public relations expert Abby and fashion industry hopeful Liddy – have campaigned actively for their father, especially using social media.
(3) Perhaps the even more moderate Jon Huntsman might have lost by only 2-3pt nationally.
(4) In New Hampshire, he faces at least four major candidates: Santorum, Ron Paul, who came a close third in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich, who trailed in fourth place and has an intense dislike of Romney, and Jon Huntsman, who did not compete in Iowa.
(5) Romney, as a moderate compared with the rest of the field other than Jon Huntsman, stands little chance of improving on 2008 in theory.
(6) The outgoing US ambassador, Jon Huntsman, described Ai Weiwei as one of the activists who "challenge the Chinese government to serve the public in all cases and at all times" in a strongly worded speech in Shanghai on Wednesday night.
(7) In recent polls Huntsman moved into third place in New Hampshire and could become the focus of a bloc of anti-Romney sentiment that has been a key factor of the race so far.
(8) The Huntsman girls clearly have an issue with moustaches.
(9) Romney and Santorum both ended the night on 24.5% of the vote, Paul 21.5%, Newt Gingrich 13%, Rick Perry 10%, Michelle Bachmann 5% and Jon Huntsman 1%.
(10) There’s a big difference … between what the media thinks is important and what the ordinary American thinks.” John Weaver, an adviser to John McCain during his two presidential runs who also ran Jon Huntsman’s campaign in 2012, said he was “impressed” by the campaign kick-off.
(11) Some of them have opposed same-sex marriage in the past, including Meg Whitman , the Hewlett Packard CEO, and Huntsman.
(12) It was postponed due to MGM's financial woes, but having it finally hit screens after the success of Avengers Assemble and Snow White And The Huntsman also looked like a cash-in.
(13) "For me it is a choice between him and Ron Paul," said Breault, after listening to Huntsman's pitch on the factory floor in Keene.
(14) The video, entitled "Jon Huntsman's Values", was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday.
(15) As a public administrator, Huntsman knew this, and he saw the opportunity to go further.
(16) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
(17) Among those who have signed an amicus brief urging the supreme court to strike down Proposition 8 are Tom Ridge, the homeland security secretary in the Bush administration who was once strongly opposed gay marriage; Paul Wolfowitz, the former deputy defence secretary and leading neoconservative; and Jon Huntsman, the 2012 Republican presidential contender.
(18) Paul took 21.4%, Gingrich 13.3%, Perry 10.3%, Bachmann 5% and Huntsman 0.6%.
(19) Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman also has seven children, while frontrunner Mitt Romney and his wife have five sons.
(20) Of course, like the Huntsman girls, it is their collective movie-star looks that get noticed, especially by apparently fascinated journalists.