(n.) Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
(n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
(v. i.) To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intact rams exhibited GH secretory episodes of greater (P less than 0.01) amplitude than did castrated lambs.
(2) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(3) These data demonstrate that 1) the pericardium increases ventricular interaction in both preterm and newborn lambs and 2) the relative percentage increase is similar for both age groups and not age dependent.
(4) In all cases foetal administration of glucocorticoid led to the onset of labour, and lambing, and in all animals the hormonal changes preceding parturition were indistinguishable (either qualitatively or quantitatively) from the changes observed in animals carrying intact lambs.
(5) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(6) At temperatures greater than 150 degrees C the mutagenic activity of the cooked meat increased to reach a maximum at 300 degrees C. In another series of experiments, lamb patties were cooked at 250 degrees C for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 min.
(7) Estimates for the biological half-lives of the antibodies ranged from 18 to 24 days in neonatal lambs and 12 to 17 days in adult wethers.
(8) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(9) To explore relations between preload, afterload, and stroke volume (SV) in the fetal left ventricle, we instrumented 126-129 days gestation fetal lambs with ascending aortic electromagnetic flow transducers, vascular catheters, and inflatable occluders around the aortic isthmus (n = 8) or descending aorta (n = 7).
(10) Two of these lambs died, three that were in extremis were euthanased, and two recovered completely.
(11) Gnotobiotic lambs were protected against rotavirus infection by the presence in the gut at the time of infection of colostrum or serum containing antibodies to rotavirus.
(12) Continuous in utero tracheal ligation and drainage (over a period of 21-28 days) both result in malformations of the developing fetal lamb lung.
(13) The effect of age of the ewe and pregnancy on concentrations of plasma calcium, phosphorus and magnesium and its relationship to the bent-leg syndrome in lambs, were investigated.
(14) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(15) Fasting heat production of lambs from the select line was 7.8% greater than that of lambs from the control line.
(16) In trial with adult wethers and weaned lambs the effect of enzymatic preparation Pektofoetidin G3x (mostly pectinase and cellulase) on rumen fermentation was studied.
(17) This report described the in vitro analysis of the series elasticity of ventricular myocardium isolated from five fetal lambs and six adult sheep.
(18) The then party whip, Norman Lamb, who is now a health minister, expressed his reservations at the time, although Clegg was able to restore his authority by forcing through changes to the original bill.
(19) It is observed clinically in white lambs as a photosensitization, which may become very severe.
(20) Two groups of five awake, unsedated, newborn lambs (2- to 6-d old) received, respectively, i.v.
Mort
Definition:
(n.) A great quantity or number.
(n.) A woman; a female.
(n.) A salmon in its third year.
(n.) Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
(n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
(n.) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were stated postoperative complications and early results of palliative treated patients (mortality 19,8%) and radicaly operated patients (postoperative--hospitality mort.
(2) » Une résidente du village, Bella Kabatesi, 18 ans, dont les parents sont morts suite à une maladie lorsqu’elle avait quatre ans, a utilisé l’énergie solaire pour alimenter une veilleuse en mémoire du fondateur du village, désormais décédé.
(3) The New York Daily News – neglected plaything of forgotten Canadian media magnate Mort Zuckerman – has also flipped and endorsed Mitt Romney in this election.
(4) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(5) The methodology was a combination of occupational hygiene surveys, including a preliminary hazard analysis, with a comprehensive assessment of the safety and health systems in use based on the 'Management Oversight and Risk Tree' (MORT) method [Knox and Eicher, MORT User's Manual, Revision 2.
(6) With its wall-sized mural of a skull and crossbones and the slogan "Atlético Até a Morte" (Atlético Until Death), it was impossible not to notice the bar, which is the base of the torcedores organizados – or supporters' club – of Atletico Paranaense.
(7) Concentrations of lead in venous blood of all children and in samples from the home environment of Mort Bay children.
(8) Luís Boa Morte, a Portuguese who played in the Premier League for West Ham and Fulham, summed up his countrymen’s feelings when he said: “As we all know, Nani is an excellent player.
(9) The series, which tells the story of Jeffrey Tambor’s Mort and his transition towards becoming Moira, has an indie-movie aesthetic and a wry, gentle touch.
(10) Palouzie, president of VIVRE SA MORT, Association Européenne pour la Réhabilitation Sociale du Mourir, discusses attitudes of the public and the medical profession in France and Belgium toward death, the dying cancer patient, and terminal care.
(11) She put on roller skates, lifted her dress and sang Les Feuilles Mortes, while bare-assing the audience.
(12) It's got the best equipped "black box" theatre I've seen, and I sat with an audience of chinstrokers through an electronic concert by Mort Subotnick.
(13) The only mistake she ever made, relationship-wise, was media magnate Mort Zuckerman, in the late 1980s.
(14) Mort Bay and Summer Hill, residential localities in inner Sydney.
(15) The first of those, OSS 117 N'est pas Mort , debuted in 1956, five years before Terence Young's Dr No, the first 007 film.
(16) What the reviewers of Juvenalia discerned was true not just of our little show, but of the original from which it was drawn: the Satires stand in a tradition to which Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, but equally Max Miller and Jackie Mason and Bernard Manning all belong, the comic improvisation on a theme.
(17) Initial rate of uptake for low lysine concentrations is mort tissue.
(18) The golden arc of Woolacombe Sands comes into view and beyond is Morte point, where Tarka once hunted for bass.
(19) Marion Dowdings, former deputy chair of his local party and now chairman of its supper club, receives an OBE, while Simon Mort, president of the neighbouring Oxford West Conservatives , receives the same.
(20) Among the different techniques the transumbilical route seems to be mort effective than recently thought of.