(n.) The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa Aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.
(n.) Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.
(n.) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.
(v. i.) See Luff.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Women had been restrained with ropes or beaten unconscious with the butt of a gun before being attacked, some in front of their children," said Annemarie Loof, an official with the medical aid organisation.
(2) The UK workforce is part of 51,000 worldwide and Sweden's minister for enterprise, Annie Loof, has also expressed worries about job cuts in Sweden, where AstraZeneca employs 5,900.
(3) A model comprising 49 isoparametric semi-loof thin shell elements was built, based on shape measurements of Kirikae (1960) and our own measurements on several local cadaver ears.
(4) "MSF is extremely concerned about the current situation in and around Fizi," Loof said yesterday.
Palm
Definition:
(n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
(n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.
(n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
(n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
(n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
(n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.
(n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
(n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.
(v. t.) To handle.
(v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.
(v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(3) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(4) The Palme D’Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has said he does not want his new film to be screened in in his home country, for fear of the reaction of the ruling military junta.
(5) Hyperlinearity was significantly more common in the palms of the patients with atopic dermatitis.
(6) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(7) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
(8) The procedure consists in making transverse skin incisions on the palm and fingers leaving the wounds open after limited fasciectomy.
(9) Lubricants, anthralin, and corticosteroids form the mainstay of therapy in mild and moderate psoriasis of the palms and soles.
(10) The allegation that palm oil consumption leads to raised blood cholesterol levels and is therefore atherogenic is without scientific foundation.
(11) The needles were from a commonly grown palm, Phoenix canariensis.
(12) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
(13) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(14) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(15) Widespread keratotic papules and striking hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles went unrecognized as a manifestation of tuberculosis, thereby delaying treatment in a patient with AIDS-related complex.
(16) Patients with fever, polymorphous skin eruption, congested conjunctiva, reddened palms and soles, red lips and oral mucous membrane, and soft-tissue swelling of the peripheral extremities and who experience membranous desquamation of fingers and toes should be suspected of having mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.
(17) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(18) 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.
(19) In this report, we recall that Raynaud's phenomenon is a "key" symptom at the center of vascular disorders of the hand, since in the positive, differential diagnosis, among its etiologies, good clinical knowledge of acrosyndromes, arteritis of the palm and digits, and the thoracic outlet syndrome is necessary.
(20) Read more The FEC forms count any asset worth more than $50m as the same – and Trump has close to two dozen of those, including his Scottish golf course and the Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.