(n.) A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon.
Example Sentences:
(1) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.
(2) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
(3) Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network and starred in Now You See Me earlier this year, will play Lipsky.
(4) As such, we treat any such allegations with the utmost seriousness and we will be contacting Jess to offer to discuss her concerns in full.” Sutton, in his own statement, said: “I wholeheartedly deny that I said or did anything other than act with complete professionalism in my dealings with Jess.
(5) Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Fabio all scored before the break in a stanza run by Anderson and decorated with flashes of artistry by the promising Wilfried Zaha, before Adnan Januzaj and then Jesse Lingard scored in the second half.
(6) British Cycling under the spotlight after Jess Varnish allegations Read more Opening up right now are big opportunities for women’s sport and its sponsors.
(7) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(8) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(9) We have struggled for years to get mental health support for Jess.
(10) Their titles, like Jesse In Mexico and Hank In Pursuit, point to their primary use as emotional catalysts for the show rather than standalone pieces of music, though diehard fans will likely still covet it alongside their Breaking Bad cufflinks and Converse trainers .
(11) Jesse Owens (famous Negro athlete) lives at the end of the block for a time but takes his children to another paediatrician.
(12) Jesse Shapiro, Wash and sanitation advisor, USAid , Washington DC, USA.
(13) The arrivals of the Swede and Mkhitaryan also concern Jesse Lingard, Memphis Depay, Juan Mata, Ander Herrera, Ashley Young, Adnan Januzaj, Andreas Pereira and James Wilson.
(14) • All our coverage on Man of Steel 2 • Interview: Jesse Eisenberg
(15) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
(16) Jess Phillips has resigned as a parliamentary private secretary to the shadow education team.
(17) Gold and silver could be between them – Jess and Kat.” Schippers became European 100m and 200m champion in Zurich in 2014 but, even then, “I still liked the heptathlon.
(18) To keep the dream team entirely intact, Jesse Eisenberg should really have been hired to play Steve Jobs.
(19) Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old son Jesse was among the victims of the 14 December massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, joined other Newtown parents in a public display of outrage at the failure of Congress to move rapidly towards reform.
(20) I still watch New Girl and I can’t stand Jess, so I can at least give wonderfully bitchy Gretchen a shot, if only in honor of the dearly departed B in Apartment 23.
Ness
Definition:
(n.) A promontory; a cape; a headland.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
(2) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(3) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
(4) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
(5) His insistence on the incomparable virtues of “Thai-ness” and traditional core values, and his self-proclaimed mission to restore “happiness to the people”, have invited open ridicule, even though the media and institutions are closely controlled.
(6) 7.27pm GMT “So looking at the team sheets I see Schweini is back,” observers Eirik Ness.
(7) This is the temple complex of the Ness of Brodgar, and its size, complexity and sophistication have left archaeologists desperately struggling to find superlatives to describe the wonders they found there.
(8) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
(9) The v-myb oncogene of the acute avian leukemia virus E26 encodes a transcription factor that directly regulates the promyelocyte-specific mim-1 gene (Ness, S.A., Marknell, A. and Graf, T. Cell, 59, 1115-1125).
(10) Empirical evidence suggests that exclusionary understandings of the nation, of Australia and Australian-ness as white and Christian allow for a narrow sense of belonging.
(11) "I find myself thinking about what is the core me-ness in me.
(12) Almost at John O'Groats, the beach at Ness of Duncansby sometimes has masses of shells.
(13) It also sets a great example – my three-year-old has now collected finisher’s medals at Ironkids and Loch Ness Marathon and loves being outside because that’s what mummy and daddy do.
(14) Amy Winehouse was the first name to be discussed , but not long after the singer appeared to have been dropped - mostly because of her Amy Winehouse-ness .
(15) She then went on to deny that her tweets about 12 Years A Slave at the Oscars were racist before concluding: "I don't want to bore you with real genuine-ness because I know that then you'll start to go online, so I'm can't really even answer any of your questions with any sort of earnestness."
(16) A packed schedule will see the company travelling all around the UK, from the Temple Enclosure in Epping Forest to Ness Botanic Garden in South Wirral, from Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight to Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire.
(17) She wears her New Yorker-ness brazenly, proudly, on her sleeve.
(18) On his return to the clinic, David tells me about his journey back and how strangely dislocated he felt from his surroundings, and the ordinary-ness of the world going on around him.
(19) In an earlier study we found that different forms of the v-myb oncogene transform myeloid cells which resemble either monoblasts [when v-myb of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) was used] or promyelocytes [when a point mutant in v-myb of AMV was used; Introna, M., Golay, J., Frampton J., Nakano, T., Ness, S.A. & Graf, T. (1990).
(20) The corporate-ness has got to such a point where we've essentially been told that we don't exist.