(n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
(n.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
(n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(2) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.
(3) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
(4) These small aggregates, termed mora, are found principally in a layer within the central region of the cupula, but are also found outside this layer.
(5) Deadline's Lisa De Moraes was roundly in agreement.
(6) José Tomás, a bullfighter loved by artists and leftwing intellectuals, was the star of a bill that included Marín and Juan Mora.
(7) The government sent the only bone fragments found that it said could still contain traces of DNA to a specialised laboratory in Austria, that later identified one of them as belonging to Alexander Mora .
(8) The Portuguese ambassador, José Filipe Moraes Cabral, who is the security council president, suggested that it was in no hurry to get to a vote.
(9) Mora has suggested a new method which takes into consideration whole height distribution of observed and reference populations, false positives, and false negatives.
(10) Considering published and unpublished research on isometric strength and the irrelevance of many studies that found no difference in isokinetic strength, it is concluded that it is most probable that isometric strength is increased by the K-MORA in mixed populations.
(11) The following methods are discussed in detail: regulation thermography, Lüscher's test, homeopathy, homeopathy autoblood therapy, nosoden therapy, acupuncture, magnetic field therapy, ozone therapy, Mora therapy, lymph drainage, management of symbiosis, and anthroposophical medicine.
(12) Gallardo made a double substitution at half-time, bringing on Lucho González and Gonzalo Martínez for the booked Leonardo Ponzio and ineffective Mora.
(13) Eduardo Medina Mora, the Mexican ambassador to the US, said in a letter to Kerry last September that the failure to provide Avena reviews "has become and could continue to be a significant irritant in the relations between our two countries".
(14) "The process of impoverishment is spreading all the time," said Sebastian Mora, secretary general of Caritas, the Roman Catholic relief organisation.
(15) Claude Moraes, the chair of the European parliament’s justice and home affairs committee, described the report as “an alarm bell being rung” about the failures of EU states.
(16) The patients received a single dose of the 5 mg per K of body weight, and laboratorial controls were made in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th after the treatment and consisting of Berman-Moraes method.
(17) Moraes was handed the ball by a clumsy pass from Gaël Clichy and the ensuing Kyiv attack ended with Yarmolenko firing a shot at Hart that was a warning to City to refocus.
(18) Judge Juan Carlos Urrutia said Patricio Ahumada Garay, Alejandro Angulo Tapia, Raul Lopez Fuentes and Fabian Mora Mora were guilty of a crime of "extreme cruelty" and "total disrespect for human life".
(19) The Ruiz-Mora procedure has been advocated for the correction of hammertoe deformities and congenital overlapping of the fifth toe, primarily on empirical grounds.
(20) The committee was established to oversee the implementation of the embargo and is chaired by José Filipe Moraes Cabral, Portugal's ambassador to the UN.
Moxa
Definition:
(n.) A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.
(n.) A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and A. moxa.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings suggest that the effect of musk-moxa-string therapy is caused by the enhancement of immunological capacity of the patients.
(2) Findings revealed that the total effect in 121 cases (88.4%) occurred in the group treated with acupuncture and moxibustion with warming needle; while the total effect in 221 cases (90.9%) was in the group treated with moxibustion with ignited moxa cone.
(3) Moxa is used in popular family medicine, for ritual purification, as a technique to cure disease or as part of a holistic approach to healing; its symbolic meaning changes according to its usage and it serves to unite disparate medical beliefs.
(4) The increase in platelet aggregation and ATP-release after a single moxibustion was dependent on moxa weight and the kind of platelet stimulus.
(5) Removal of C37H76 from the original moxa seems to decelerate the burning of moxa.
(6) In contrast, B lymphocytes, monocytes, DR+ cells and blastogenic response to concanavalin A and pokeweed mitogen were not influenced by musk-moxa-string therapy.
(7) The MoxA, K and L proteins may be involved in maintaining a high Ca2+ concentration in the periplasm.
(8) MDH isolated from the methanol oxidation mutants MoxA-, K- and L- contained no Ca2+.
(9) Moxa was soaked in a mixed solvent of chloroform, methanol and water (5:5:1) at room temperature for 7 days, and the supernatant solution was separated into two layers by the addition of water.
(10) Each ratio of C37H76 in several kinds of moxas to the total weight of the moxa was similar in both high-class and low-class moxas, but that of the tannins was much less in the former than the latter.
(11) The effects of musk-moxa-string therapy on the immune system in man were investigated in 39 patients with scrofula.
(12) Comparing the burning-temperature curve to the time between the moxa after the extraction and before, the time for the rise of the burning-temperature from 25 degrees C to the highest temperature was longer in the treated moxa.
(13) Immunological function and lymphocytic subsets of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBWC) from 39 patients with scrofula were investigated before and after treatment with musk-moxa-string therapy.