(n.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe, and M. cephalus which occurs both on the European and American coasts.
(n.) Any species of the genus Mullus, or family Mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.
(n.) A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.
(n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protein synthesis in mullet was measured by use of pulse injections of 14Cleucine into the hepatic portal circulation and by 4-hr continuous infusion of 14Ctyrosine into the dorsal aorta.
(2) Three female mullets received a priming injection of carp pituitary homogenate followed by a resolving injection of an LHRH analogue 24 hr later.
(3) Mullets and rabbitfish caught at the same site caused no harm.
(4) The Km of 20 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase of mullet ovarian tissue was similar to the value reported for mammalian gonadal tissue, but the constant for 17 beta-hydroxy-steroid dehydrogenase in the carp ovary was different.
(5) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(6) You could toss a mullet net over any park bench between Key West and Pensacola and drag in two people who’d be more inspiring.
(7) Minced fish (mullet) sausage mixes containing added sugar, salt, nitrate, nitrite and spices were fermented (48 h, 30 degrees C) by indigenous flora or by a starter culture (Pediococcus acidilactici) and the microbial ecology and behaviour of various bacteria was monitored.
(8) These results are in concordance with results of a cluster analysis based on the mixture compositions, which indicates that shrimp and crab mixtures are compositionally similar, while mullet and oyster mixtures are compositionally distinct from the shrimp mixture.
(9) After watching Kinnock slide to defeat in the 1987 general election, he recalls standing at the Welshman’s shoulder the morning after “ a half-blubbing, mullet-haired 20-year old ”.
(10) The first type was most evident in the grey mullet Mugil sp., being characterized by the decrease of the level of the activity at night time.
(11) It’s a small, unassuming restaurant where even the queue to get in is exciting – order a cold beer and watch one of the owners grill fresh sardines and red mullet by the door as you wait.
(12) According to the aversion index, animals conditioned to shrimp mixture perceived crab mixture as being more similar to shrimp mixture than were mullet and oyster mixtures, but all three nonconditioned mixtures were perceived as being significantly different from the shrimp mixture.
(13) More limited metabolism was observed in mullet when n-alkanes were taken up via the gills.
(14) Glycogen phosphorylase purified from muscle of mullet (Liza ramada) has been kinetically characterized.
(15) White mullet fingerlings (Mugil curema) occur together with freshwater species, of the Poeciliidae and Characidae, in a pond neighboring the beach at Pontal do Sul (Parana, Brasil).
(16) were diagnosed in the municipality of Registro (São Paulo State, Brazil) by stool examinations, in patients who ate raw mullet (Mugil sp.).
(17) The striped mullet (Mugil cephalus) exhibits a restricted spawning season and matures only once per spawning cycle.
(18) The endocrine cells in the gut of Mugil saliens Risso, 1810 (leaping grey mullet) were investigated by immunocytochemical and electron microscopic techniques.
(19) If you were of drinking age in the early 00s then you may well have had a mullet in this genre's heyday, and, complete with ironic sweatband, gotten sweaty to Fischerspooner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Felix Da Housecat.
(20) 11) If you're Kanye West, you can rock a mullet and no one will say anything Of course, it's not like your crew will have much room to criticise, but if anyone was going to try to stop the party around the back of Kanye's bonce, it clearly didn't do any good, as it was there, bouncy, fresh, and mullety.
Springer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
(n.) A young plant.
(n.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
(n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
(n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
(n.) The grampus.
(n.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.
(n.) A species of antelope; the sprinkbok.
Example Sentences:
(1) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
(2) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
(3) These mutants are also defective in the ability to carry out a protein methylation reaction which has previously been implicated in the adaptation process (Goy, Springer and Adler, 1977).
(4) But Springer said funding had been agreed and an application made for ethical approval.
(5) In the interim, Phil cut the solo albums Star Spangled Springer (1973), Phil's Diner (1974) and Mystic Line (1975), and appeared on Roy Wood's album Mustard and on Zevon's debut album in 1976.
(6) Die Welt are lucky to be part of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher whose portfolio also contains Bild, still the world's bestselling non-Asian newspaper and the Germany's most successful news website: pressure on Die Welt to make a profit is relatively low, so they have the luxury to experiment with new models that may later be rolled out elsewhere.
(7) 1-20, Springer, Berlin) has revealed that 2-methyl-5(4H)-thiazolones, prepared by trifluoroacetic acid-catalyzed cleavage of the N-terminal amino acid from a N-thioacetylated polypeptide, were found to react instantaneously with one equivalent of carboxylic acid chloride, sulfonic acid chloride, or chloroformate to yield stable derivatives suitable for identification by high-performance liquid chromatography.
(8) In Germany , Axel Springer has in the past been accused of exercising a monopoly role similar to the one Döpfner accuses Google of benefiting from.
(9) The suggestions are part of a review article in Springer’s journal Current Environmental Health Reports .
(10) A polysystemic disorder was observed in three related English Springer Spaniel dogs that demonstrated regurgitation from an early age, slowly progressive temporal muscle atrophy with partial trismus, and less pronounced generalized skeletal muscle atrophy.
(11) This inherited erythroenzymopathy and myopathy is commonly diagnosed in English Springer Spaniels, but the family study of this Cocker Spaniel, although supporting an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance, did not reveal any English Springer Spaniel ancestors.
(12) Detergent-soluble HLA antigen heavy chains contain one or two easily reduced sulfhydryl groups not found in papain-solubilized HLA antigens, as demonstrated by amino acid analysis (Springer, T. A., and Strominger, J.L.
(13) Despite this functional classification, chemical analyses reveal few patterns unique to regulatory light chains, and, indeed, sequence comparisons suggest structural similarities between both classes of myosin subunits (Collins, J. H. (1977), Nature (London) 259, 699--700; Kendrick-Jones, J., and Jakes, R. (1977), in International Symposium on Myocardial Failure at Tegernsee, Riecker, G., and Boehringer, Ed., Munich, West Germany, Springer-Verlag, pp.
(14) Like any right-thinking person, the first priority is a cup of tea before I tend to the dog, Dylan, a Welsh springer spaniel and reluctant morning companion.
(15) Retinal dysplasia has been reported in Bedlington Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Beagle, Labrador Retriever, English Cocker Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and Rottweiler.
(16) Previously we have shown that adaptation requires methionine, but maintenance of the adapted state and de-adaptation do not [Springer, M. S., Goy, M. F. & Adler, J.
(17) Verlag Van J. Springer, Berlin, 1937), are superimposed to experimental curves, obtained in the cat jejunum and terminal ileum, but not in the rat stomach strip.
(18) The transposons causing the mutations are: P element (5 alleles), gypsy (3 alleles), 17.6, HMS Beagle, springer, Delta 88, prygun, Stalker, and a new mobile element which was named roamer (2 alleles).
(19) Yet what is more interesting is Axel Springer’s involvement, which is a leading digital publishing house in Europe, and publishes German tabloid newspaper Bild.
(20) 72, 131-141 (1982); Robles et al., Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms (Springer, New York, 1986)].