(n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
(n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.
(n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
(n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
(n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
(n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
(n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
(2) In the Commons, John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, covering Heathrow, was suspended for five days by the deputy speaker after he picked up the mace and shouted: "It is a disgrace."
(3) The two antimicrobial resorcinols malabaricone B [1] and malabaricone C [2] were isolated from mace, the dried seed covers of Myristica fragrans.
(4) The results demonstrate that MACE and DACE are effective photosensitizing agents in vitro and compare favorably to DHE.
(5) We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers,” says Mace Windu, apropos some urgent battle or other.
(6) Leukocytes from a normal donor, after passive sensitization with serum from patient M, released a substantial (greater than or equal to 50%) amount of histamine on challenge with extracts of coriander, mace, and curry powder.
(7) In addition, there was a significant increase in the SH content in the liver of mice fed on 1% BHA and 2% mace diets.
(8) Expressed in terms of oxygen depletion per cell the order was CASPc approximately PII greater than MACE.
(9) In a letter to the Guardian this week, Georgina Mace, professor of conservation science at Imperial College, London and Catherine Redgwell, professor of international law at UCL, said that investment in geo-engineering research had already begun and, "without international governance structures, schemes could soon be implemented unencumbered by the safeguards needed".
(10) Patterns of distribution and localization of MACE differ substantially from those observed with HPD and other hydrophobic sensitizers.
(11) Protesters trying to tend to the wounded were also maced.
(12) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical effect of mace extract and egg-white lysozyme in two brands of chewing gum on gingival condition.
(13) We have treated 47 clinical stage I or IE patients with aggressive lymphoma histologies (diffuse large-cell, diffuse mixed, diffuse immunoblastic, follicular large-cell, diffuse small-non-cleaved cell) with four monthly cycles of an eight-drug combination chemotherapy program consisting of cyclophosphamide, etoposide, doxorubicin, nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine), procarbazine, high-dose methotrexate with leucovorin rescue, and prednisone (Pro-MACE-MOPP) administered systemically followed by 40 Gy involved-field radiation therapy.
(14) Security companies have reported a 50% increase in sales of mace self-defence spray and an increased demand for armed security guards for malls and other public places, while restaurants and markets in areas judged dangerous have emptied.
(15) Bean was still tending to Martin’s brother’s stomach wound when they released mace into people’s faces, she told the Guardian.
(16) In the blood of 10 guinea pigs, which were exposed to the contents of chemical mace for 1--6 h, the solvants 1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluorethane (freon 113) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane could easily be detected--even 23 h after the end of exposure or after a storage of the blood samples for 18 weeks--whereas the lacrimator chloracetophenone (CN) could not be found at all.
(17) So did Hezza's mace gesture: intended as one of despair, it looked like attempted bodily harm in the gloomy 10.30pm chamber of the pre-TV era.
(18) Forty-five previously untreated patients with intermediate or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were treated with the Pro-MACE-C-MOPP regimen (flexitherapy).
(19) Rodney Mace Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire • With the new wall being built in Hungary ( Work begins on border fence to block migrants , 14 July), I am reminded of a conversation I had with a woman whose family has owned, since the 1920s, the apartment where I spent the night a few years ago.
(20) Contact and systemic contact-type dermatitis reactions to spices such as nutmeg, mace, cardamom, curry, cinnamon, and laurel may be rare but may well be overlooked.
Shaft
Definition:
(n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
(n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light.
(n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical.
(n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant.
(n.) The stem or midrib of a feather.
(n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill.
(n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.
(n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.
(n.) A pole, especially a Maypole.
(n.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.
(n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.
(n.) A rod at the end of a heddle.
(n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine.
(n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.
(n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.
(n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.
(n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(2) In contrast, the ryanodine receptor is observed in dendritic shafts, but not in the spines.
(3) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
(4) Since 1984, 16 children (mean age 10.3 years) have had stabilization of their femoral shaft fractures by external fixation (Monofixateur) in the Trauma Department of the Hannover Medical School.
(5) The fractures were localized as follows: 7 in the proximal, 7 in the middle, 1 in the distal third of the shaft, 5 subtrochanteric, 1 supracondylar.
(6) Normal neck-shaft angle accounted to 53.1% in the traction group.
(7) Operative treatment was used 22 times (5 sesamoid fractures, 5 midtibial fractures, 5 metatarsal V base fractures, 3 tarsal navicular fractures, 3 olecranon fractures, and 1 proximal tibial shaft fracture).
(8) Twenty-five patients with aseptic nonunion of the humeral shaft, treated by a combined therapeutic procedure, are reported.
(9) The tanycyte shafts extended from the floor of the fourth ventricle into the bundle, and often ran the entire length of the bundle, where they intertwined themselves among neurons and dendrites of the medullary raphe nuclei.
(10) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
(11) The tibial shafts of OVX rats compared to SHAM controls showed elevated periosteal mineral apposition rate and endocortical bone formation parameters.
(12) Mid-shaft sections of 100% silicone (Bardex) and hydrogel-coated latex (Biocath) catheters were subjected to controlled in vitro encrustation conditions for periods of up to 18 weeks.
(13) The filaments are tightly joined together along their shafts for about 30 nm but they separate at both ends for about 10 nm before contacting the external surface of the plasma membrane.
(14) In the original exchange, Scudamore warned Nick West, a City lawyer who works with the Premier League on broadcasting deals, to keep a female colleague they nicknamed Edna “off your shaft”.
(15) The sequential examination of the hair shaft allows an assessment of the chloroquine amount taken over time, the individual dosage, the initiation and termination of therapy.
(16) The long axis of the femoral shaft was, however, not shown to be a source of substantial error.
(17) In the good old days the judges looked the other way when radicals were shafted, shocking bail conditions imposed and foreigners unceremoniously thrown out.
(18) We therefore performed an investigation to find whether application of bone cement to the femur caused histamine release in elective hip surgery, and, independently of this, also investigated whether premedication with H1- + H2-antagonists had any effect on the cardiovascular reactions due to bone cement implantation into the femoral shaft in elderly patients with hip fracture.
(19) Of the 21 cement-free shaft implantations, 3 had to be replaced, the average age of these patients being 42.9 years.
(20) As compared to the mean values of normal gravity controls, centrifuged dogs showed no differences in femur length; cross-sectional area, outer and inner radii at mid-shaft of the femur; dry weights of the biceps femoris, quadriceps femoris, and gastrocnemius muscles.