(n.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Nickles (R-Okla) was interviewed in March in his Oklahoma City office on the 18th floor of the Liberty Bank Building.
(2) Serum nickle was estimated by atomic absorption spectrometer in 20 healthy controls and in 25 cases of acute myocardial infarction at 12 hourly intervals upto 48 hours, after the onset of chest pain.
(3) Among the most high-profile books challenged lately was bestselling author David K Shipler’s The Working Poor: Invisible in America, targeted by a group of parents in Texas during Banned Books Week, and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickle and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America, which explores the challenges of low income and refutes the myths around poverty and supposed fecklessness.
(4) A custom, platinum-iridium, exposed helical screw electrode (Medtronic, Inc.), 4.5-mm long, with a 17.8-mm2 surface area, was designed with a polyurethane covered 4 filar MP35N nickle conductor lead.
(5) Valvulotomy was accomplished with a retrograde "cutter" valvulotome, and endoluminal cannulation of 84 SV tributaries was performed with a shape memory metal alloy (nickle-titanium), electronically steerable catheter under angioscopic surveillance.
(6) Intense handling of nickle-contaminated metal objects did not induce any visible eczematous activity.
(7) Nonetheless, Senator Nickles, a young and energetic man in his early forties, was relaxed and in no apparent rush.
(8) The life of Dr. Samuel Nickles 1833-1908, medical practitioner and teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio, is written almost entirely from information found in a collection of letters, personal papers, clippings from newspapers and journals, and other personal possessions donated to the author by Martha Nickles, Samuel's 89-year-old daughter.
(9) In casting of high-fusing alloys such as cobalt-chrome and nickle-chrome alloys, the reaction between the investing mold and high-fusing molten alloys suffers the disadvantage of the scale formation.
(10) The nickle dose given is probably in the upper limit of the presently known daily intake of the metal, but should be considered to be within the physiologic range.
(11) (electron-paramagnetic-resonance) spectra of ubisemiquinone (QH) organic radicals and all of the known iron-sulphur centres were studied in normal and 'nickle-plated' pigeon heart mitochondria, submitochondrial particles and submitochondrial particles from which succinate dehydrogenase had been removed.
(12) Oral administration of nickle in a double-blind test provoked an aggravation of the hand eczema in nine of the twelve patients, and in seven of the patients this was accompanied by secondary eruptions including outbreaks of earlier, healed eczema.
(13) The nickle (Ni) concentrations of blood plasma, urine and scalp hair do not differ between hypersensitive and non-hypersensitive subjects.
(14) Despite its favorable mechanical properties, however, the high nickle content of Wiron 88, as it has been in use up to now, must be considered as a drawback, because it may produce allergic reactions in patients.
(15) 213 women and 26 men out of 7835 persons examined in the course of 9 years (1967--1975) had a positive reaction to nickle sulfate.
(16) Mr Lott's current deputy, Don Nickles of Oklahoma, was the first Republican senator to call on Mr Lott to resign and spare the party any pain.
(17) Nickles, still the youngest Senator in Washington, has been a US Senator for 11 years.