(n.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(2) 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.
(3) Grampian police joined forces with Tayside police and Marr search and rescue to comb a large area from Loch Muick to Glen Clova in the national park.
(4) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
(5) At one stage, more than 60 train passengers were stranded on the West Highland line after it was closed down near Crianlarich, north of Loch Lomond.
(6) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
(7) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(8) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
(9) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(10) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
(11) In a small number of areas, we found that after the merger the parties would operate pubs in close proximity without facing sufficient competition from rivals and we are concerned this could lead to a rise in the price of food or drink or a reduction in the quality of those pubs.” Greene King, which brews Old Speckled Hen and Abbott Ale and operates chains such as Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne, said it intended to offer concessions to meet CMA concerns.
(12) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
(13) 4 Turn right on to a solid path, climb past St Margaret's loch and the ruin of St Anthony's chapel.
(14) The Lochranza hotel overlooks the castle and loch and has a vast selection of malt whiskeys.
(15) Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Loch Caoldair, Laggan, Western Cairngorms There are thousands of lochs in Scotland, and open access laws mean you can swim in virtually all of them.
(16) Though Scotland is a land of lochs, it's not known for its bathing.
(17) Whereas Campbell Toun Loch caters for the solitary, late-night drinker, Marugin attracts lively early-evening groups, eating, smoking and knocking back highballs.
(18) The first submarines of the US’s Polaris fleet arrived at their new base in the Holy Loch a few months later, and came and went in relays until the cold war was over, overlapping for a time with the Royal Navy’s missile submarines that had begun to sail from their headquarters at Faslane, a few miles across the Clyde in the Gare Loch.
(19) 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.
(20) But think how fascinating the idea of a loch monster is.
Sea
Definition:
(n.) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
(n.) An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
(n.) The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
(n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
(n.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
(n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
Example Sentences:
(1) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(2) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(3) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
(4) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(5) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
(6) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(8) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
(9) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
(10) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.
(11) In the present work by the method of molecular DNA hybridization there was shown a low degree of affinity of the standard museum strains of cholera vibrios to the respresentatives of the sea species V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus, and also halophilic vibrios identified earlier on the basis of phenotypical characteristics of the nucleotide DNA composition as Marinovibrio.
(12) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
(13) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
(14) The highest rates were observed where the inhabitants' activities were related to the sea.
(15) CyIIIa.CAT) expression simultaneously in embryos bearing excess competitor regulatory DNA, we developed, and here describe, a new procedure for generating transgenic sea urchin embryos in which all of the cells in many embryos, and most in others, bear the exogenous DNA.
(16) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.
(17) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
(18) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
(19) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(20) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".