(n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
(n.) An old game at cards.
(n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
(n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oxygen consumption (MO2) of the semi-precocial Brown Noddy embryos at different stages of development was measured at 36 degrees C and again after 5-hr exposure to lowered ambient temperatures (30 and 32 degrees C).
(2) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
(3) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
(4) Even now, he's negotiating a treaty with Noddy Holder, the cultural attache for British Sausage Week , to establish an international standard for toad-in-the-hole.
(5) Alfie, Doodles, Lofty, Sooty (who won best individual), Noddy, Bentley, Pedro and Cracker are so well trained they walk in formation down the beach and back again without being led.
(6) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
(7) The precocial chicken and semi-precocial noddy previously studied are intermediate in their metabolic response between the duck and the pigeon.
(8) British animation has been in decline in recent years as other countries have offered generous subsidies for cartoonists to move abroad, with Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine produced in the US and Noddy made in Ireland, and the industry believes the result is British pre-schoolchildren now see largely foreign-made content.
(9) In contrast to precocial chickens, the semi-precocial Noddy had no apparent metabolic response to cooling before hatching.
(10) But theimage of electric vehicles as dowdy "Noddy" cars has begun to change, due to luxury electric sports cars such as California's Tesla Roadster and the British-designed Lightning GT.
Toddy
Definition:
(n.) A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.
(n.) A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(2) The highest incidence of the disease occurred during the peak toddy season (April to July).
(3) Only 2 of 133 nestlings sampled during the dry season had patent parasitemias (L. toddi).
(4) The majority were young or middle aged males belonging to the lower socio-economic group and 85% gave a history of drinking toddy (fermented palm juice).
(5) Toddy drinkers become susceptible perhaps because of the large dose of Entamoeba histolytica and bacteria ingested with the drink, associated malnutrition, poor hygiene, hepatic dysfunction and possible suppression of amoebistatic substance.
(6) Savour the aromas of vanilla, cinnamon, hibiscus and miscellaneous spices, or, if you fancy some pep in your toddy, Nan might be persuaded to add a shot of the house spiced rum.
(7) Kesari powder, calamus oil, palm drink, toddy and Kewra essence were found to be strongly mutagenic; garlic, palm oil, arrack, onion and pyrolysed portions of bread toast, chicory powder were weakly mutagenic, while tamarind and turmeric were not.
(8) n. was observed in 35.2% of the vultures, Leucocytozoon toddi in 0.8%, Plasmodium fallax in 0.6%, Atoxoplasma sp.
(9) from E. canipes, E. cochisensis, E. dorsalis, and E. tamiasciuri from E. dorsalis, E. dorsalis and E. tamiasciuri from E. merriami; E. cochisensis, E. dorsalis, E. tamiasciuri, and E. wisconsinensis from E. obscurus; E. cochisensis and E. dorsalis from E. townsendii; E. ontarioensis and E. tamiasciuri from S. aberti; E. tamiasciuri from S. griseus; E. tamiasciuri and E. toddi from T. h. mogollonensis; and E. tamiasciuri from T. mearnsi.
(10) We head to a cocktail bar where she orders a hot toddy for her bruised pipes.
(11) Toddy and locally distilled wines were regularly consumed by both the tribes.
(12) After a second hot toddy, she's in noticeably better spirits than when she arrived.