(n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.
(n.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.
(v. t.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun.
(a.) Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.
(v. t.) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carriers of the other defect genes have no advantage for milk production, are scored lower for pelvic angle, and limber leg carriers have more desirable udders.
(2) The New York Times opened a report from London thus: "While the world's athletes limber up in the Olympic Park, Londoners are practising some of their own favourite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities."
(3) Of the two schedules the first one (without a preliminary "limbering" rotation) was more favourable.
(4) Left to its own devices, the world is still planning to spend the next decade or two mostly limbering up, engaging in the kind of impressive-looking stretching that runners enjoy at the start line.
(5) There are rumours that this production of Company is limbering up to transfer to the West End.
(6) LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE LATER Transfer-deadline-day-short-straw-puller Rob Bagchi is limbering up as we type, with – and we kid you not – a computer keyboard and computer mouse in front of him.
(7) In a centrifuge with a 1 m radius 18 animals got ventro-dorsal gravitation stress according to schedule N 1 (with limberung-up) and 18 animals according to schedule N 2 got gravitation stress without limbering-up.
(8) Proteinase K, the extracellular serine endopeptidase (E.C.3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album limber, is homologous to the bacterial subtilisin proteases.
(9) The team looked flat and strangely subdued and the crowd longed for Ronaldo's arrival, howling his name and enthusiastically rising to their feet when he appeared on the touchline to limber up.
(10) Now the candidates for the position of chancellor after the election will be limbering up for Monday's debate .
(11) A number of proteinases are induced and secreted into the culture medium of Tritirachium album Limber when the nitrogen source is limited to exogenous proteins.
(12) The program must be tailored to the patient, starting with relaxation and gentle limbering exercises and proceeding ultimately to vigorous muscle-stretching exercises.
(13) British bookmakers remain among the favourites to triumph in the World Cup – they'll take up to £600m online according to a new report by Regulus Insights and Sporting Index – and one of our teams, Betfair , will limber up for the big event this week by unveiling its annual results.
(14) This was not a great way for Tottenham to limber up for the new Premier League season, which kicks off for them at Manchester United at lunchtime on Saturday, as they were convincingly beaten by Real Madrid .
(15) Therefore, routine limbering-up is recommended before sports activities.
(16) Schedule N2 (18 rotations without a preliminary limbering-up) proved to be more effective.
(17) Proteinase K (EC 3.4.21.14) from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber is the most active known serine endopeptidase.
(18) We have isolated the genomic and cDNA clones encoding a novel proteinase from the fungus Tritirachium album Limber, named proteinase T, synthesis of which is induced in skim milk medium.
(19) The cDNA and the chromosomal gene encoding proteinase K from Tritirachium album Limber have been cloned in Escherichia coli and the entire nucleotide sequences of the coding region, as well as 5'- and 3'-flanking regions have been determined.
(20) Otherwise the Premier League champions in waiting did not move outside the Midlands and seemed more than content to limber up for the campaign with friendlies at Lincoln, Mansfield, Burton and Birmingham.
Lissome
Definition:
(a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
(a.) Light; nimble; active.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pilic certainly did not like umpires and was a lean-boned and lissome athlete on court; off it he could be broodily dark and explosive.
(2) He looked up to see a lissome figure with gentle brown eyes that held a profundity of experience rarely encountered in someone of her age.
(3) Then it's off out to treat the world to the sight of their lissom frames, youthful musculature and poreless, naturally lambent skin whose glow seems to reach out and greet the sun as a cousin.
(4) It’s also put together with a lissom confidence and a breeziness that more than compensates for a gossamer lightness when it comes to substance.” Hail, Caesar!
(5) Last year, Lebedev shut down another of his newspapers, the Moscow Korrespondent, after it published a story about Putin's alleged affair with a lissom Olympic gymnast.
(6) Inevitably, the Mediterranean sunlight on lissom flesh restores Rochefort's creative mojo.
(7) This was featured in TV documentaries, a half-fictional film, Scandal (1989), and the ghosted autobiographies of Christine Keeler, the lissom young woman whose naked form he chased around the pool at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire stately home, with its then owner Lord ("Bill") Astor.