(n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
(n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped.
(2) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(3) The manor house in The Private Patient has been sold by its ancestral owners to cover their debts and bought by self-made plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.
(4) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(5) Sue Manor, 66, of Hendersonville, spoke of her "agonising" wait for the all-clear.
(6) Campaigning in Averham and Bingham, Helmer criticised the personal wealth of Jenrick, who has a Herefordshire manor, and two properties in London as well as a rented place near Newark.
(7) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
(8) Photograph: Adam Gerrard Dr David Drew A former clinical director of Walsall Manor hospital, Dr David Drew was dismissed in December 2010 after voicing concerns about what he said was a huge cost-cutting exercise.
(9) The location is likely to afford Assange some privacy, since it is impossible to reach the manor house without trespassing on Smith's land.
(10) This article presents a brief account of the University of Evansville's use of Harlaxton Manor, located in England.
(11) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
(12) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(13) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(14) …………………………………………………… We were Bronzeville girls until I was three and Denise six; then we moved to Park Manor.
(15) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
(16) Mahmood took another royal scalp in 2005 when he posed as a property tycoon interested in buying Princess Michael of Kent’s 17th-century Cotswolds manor house.
(17) HS2 will pass close to the modest housing estates of west Aylesbury and at a more respectful distance from Waddesdon Manor, a French chateau built on a wooded hill by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874.
(18) Woolhope Woodheat plans to install its first boiler at Canon Frome Court , a community of about 50 people living in a Georgian manor and 40-acre organic farm in Herefordshire.
(19) Appearance: Very like the pavilion from the reconstructed 18th-century Swedish manor house in Stockholm on which it is based, but smaller, for ducks.
(20) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
Western
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.
(a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(2) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(3) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(4) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(5) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(6) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(7) In addition to performing Northern and Western blots for tyrosinase, tyrosine hydroxylase activity (THA) and dopa oxidase activity (DOA) were measured.
(8) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
(9) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(10) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(11) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(12) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(13) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(14) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(15) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(16) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
(17) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(18) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(19) Accidental injury is the leading cause of death in persons between the ages of 1 and 50 years in our Western society.
(20) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.