(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.
Velvet
Definition:
(n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
(n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
(a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
(v. i.) To pain velvet.
(v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(2) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(3) The morphology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), choriocapillaris and Bruch's membrane (complexus basalis) have been studied by light and electron microscopy in the velvet cichlid (Astronotus ocellatus).
(4) Matthew d’Ancona : She’s a risk-taker, and a potentially transformative leader Theresa May may be a compassionate Conservative, but her arrival in Downing Street has been anything but a velvet revolution.
(5) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(6) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(7) On Tuesday, Obama was sworn in with his palm on the same velvet-covered Bible used by Lincoln in 1861, but he had no bible with him at the re-run.
(8) The Velvet Underground’s sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York’s gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
(9) Part was the Velvet Underground and the Beats and all that stuff.
(10) Anyone who doesn't take pleasure in seeing Joe Pesci in a burgundy velvet three-piece suit is a person who possesses neither soul nor eyes.
(11) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(12) I was a Bowie fan, which meant that I had bought or borrowed Transformer when I was 13, and then someone handed me an acetate of Live at Max's Kansas City and then I was a Lou Reed fan and a Velvet Underground fan.
(13) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
(14) A new semidominant mutation in the house mouse, velvet coat (Ve), is described.
(15) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
(16) Storage of the velvet pad in 0.9 per cent saline for 2 h at room temperature did not influence bacterial recovery significantly, in contrast to a significant decrease after storage in saline for 24 h or storage in a dry Petri dish for 2 h. The high and fairly constant efficiency of bacterial recovery of the velvet pad rinse technique suggests that it could be employed clinically.
(17) One of its surfaces is velvet-like and induces adhesions with the edge of the abdominal defect that will be responsible for the strength of the repair.
(18) At a lavish reception at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Rauch lurked in the shadows ("an artist's workshop should always be installed on the fringe"), while Lybke clambered onto the seat of a velvet chair and did a comic turn.
(19) Tehran has repeatedly attacked PTV as an arm of the British government, which it accuses of seeking to foment a "velvet revolution".
(20) We propose that the initiation of late gene expression is regulated by velvet and controlled by a red light photoreceptor, whose properties are reminiscent of phytochrome-mediated responses observed in higher plants.