(n.) Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.
Example Sentences:
Pinion
Definition:
(n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
(n.) A feather; a quill.
(n.) A wing, literal or figurative.
(n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
(n.) A fetter for the arm.
(n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.
(v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
(v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
(v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
(v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
Example Sentences:
(1) It felt pretty amazing.” O pinions of BrewDog tend to go one of four ways.
(2) Trimming of the comb, devocalisation, trimming of claws, pinioning and caponisation of birds are procedures, which are often requested or carried out by keepers of animals.
(3) And after Eddie Mair's careful pinioning and dissection of Boris Johnson on Sunday's The Andrew Marr Show, there is a feeling out there that a new one has just graduated.
(4) At corners, Charles found his arms pinioned by one opponent while another crashed into him from behind.
(5) Soaring aloft, he exchanges a beast for a bird: Air Force One is America with wings, a mechanised version of the beaked, pinioned eagle – a predator that clutches in its claws twin bundles of peacemaking olive branches and spiky, militarised arrows – that appears on the country’s Great Seal.
(6) The assistant executioner pinions the legs, while the executioner puts a white cap over his head and fits the noose round his neck with the knot drawn tight on the left lower jaw, where it is held in position by a sliding ring.
(7) The different hinge designs studied were fixed axis, gear-on-gear, rack-and-pinion, and natural 3-D; they showed only moderate differences in forces.
(8) Fielding describes the family profession thus: "Just before the time of the execution, the executioner and his assistant join the ... prison officials outside the door of the condemned cell ... the executioner enters the cell and pinions the prisoner's arms behind his back, and two officers lead him to the scaffold and place him directly across the division of the trap on a spot previously marked with chalk.
(9) Two-dimensional echocardiography is the pinion of diagnostic procedures utilized to characterize the coronary arteries in Kawasaki disease.
(10) These problems can be exceptionally difficult in analysis and philosophical management, and are frequently pinioned between technical craftsmanship, curability, and deformity.