(n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
(n.) The human skin.
(n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
(v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
(v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile.
(v. i.) To throw missiles.
(v. i.) To throw out words.
(n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Example Sentences:
(1) After euthanasia and removal of the pelts, liver and kidney samples were collected from 174 mink and analyzed for 22 elements using inductively coupled argon plasma emission spectroscopy.
(2) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(3) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(4) After rising employment has failed to lift output as far as hoped, this reflects waning hopes about the potential of the UK economy once restored to full pelt.
(5) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
(6) Social status within a cage explained only 3.6% of the pelt quality variation while it could explain 52% of the BW variation.
(7) Allergenic components of cat pelt extract fractionated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes were identified using sera from 15 allergic patients who showed positive skin test and RAST to cat extract.
(8) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
(9) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
(10) In one incident in Jerusalem last month, an Israeli motorist was killed after his car was pelted with stones.
(11) United bite back and Rafael skitters down the right wing at full pelt, before sending a cross into the Stretford End.
(12) Also mass very positively (p less than 0.001) correlated with pelt quality (r = 0.82), indicating that the subjectively estimated pelt quality, in fact, can be derived directly from its weight.
(13) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
(14) Enthusiasts could ski to St Anton for a few runs and a Jägerbomb in the Krazy Kanguruh before pelting back for tea.
(15) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
(16) A. C. Jacobs, J. Venema, R. Leeven, H. van Pelt-Heerschap, and F. K. de Graaf, J. Bacteriol.
(17) According to local reports in Florida, two Muslim women in the Tampa Bay area were attacked after leaving prayer meetings – one was shot at and the other almost driven off the road and her car pelted with stones.
(18) This week he took great delight in cross-examining Robert Jan van Pelt, a Dutch architectural historian who is an authority on the gas chambers.
(19) The democracy march finished at the Field of Mars, where a sanctioned gay pride rally last summer ended with participants being beaten and pelted with eggs by anti-gay activists, and dozens of were detained by police.
(20) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.
Spelt
Definition:
() of Spell
() imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
(n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
(n.) Spelter.
(v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the few regulations that has been spelt out in black and white is the maximum height limit – so planes don’t have to weave between spires on their way to and from City Airport, five miles to the east.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
(4) • He said Labour under Ed Miliband had not spelt out what it really believed.
(5) We're against going to Syria for the armed struggle and have spelt this out on many occasions.
(6) Two years ago, that same person would probably have asked how baobab was spelt.” Despite the optimism, Dohse knows that baobab will never be a cash crop to rival the tobacco on which one of Africa’s poorest countries depends .
(7) M∆tilda – spelt with an Alt-J – references Luc Besson's film Léon and is "fuelled by the shared demise of both the protagonist and antagonist".
(8) Afterwards, Josiah Heyman, a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, who studies the border, spelt out what he regards as the lunacy of Sensenbrenner's approach.
(9) Activities of xylanase up to 27 U ml-1 (1 U represents 1 micromol of xylose equivalents released min-1) were obtained for cultures grown on xylan (from oat spelt) at 2.5 mg ml-1 in shaken cultures.
(10) Cocozza was never a threat to the favourites – only managing between 5.2% and 8.7% of the public vote in the weeks he was in the contest – while the re-introduction of a female artist in his place in Lily seems to have spelt the end of Devlin's chances.
(11) For a start, comments from US Federal Reserve officials late on the same day spelt out the merits of its bond-buying programme, prompting hopes of continuing stimulus for the world's largest economy.
(12) Authorities have refused to register the baby because Rincón’s Christian name is not spelt correctly on Ramírez’s American birth certificate.
(13) Chemical modification of arginine or lysine of AT-III significantly lowered its potentiation of thrombin or Xa inhibition by oat spelts xylan sulfate.
(14) A team from Dexetra.com has written "Iris" – Siri, spelt backwards – which uses Google's speech-to-text system to provide Siri-like functionality for Android phones by querying Wikipedia or other reference sites for topics such as art, literature, history and biology.
(15) On a molar basis oat spelts xylan sulfate was the most effective compound in accelerating the rate of thrombin-AT-III interaction followed by commercial heparin while the latter was most effective in accelerating the rate of thrombin-HC-II interaction.
(16) Therefore, all of the complicated foreign delicacies will be spelt phonetically here so you know what I'm talking about.
(17) The products of the two genes showed similar pH optima for hydrolysis of oat spelt xylan (around 5.5) and had little or no activity against carboxymethylcellulose.
(18) The strategic case also spelt out how the new line's additional capacity would more than triple the number of seats running into London Euston station, where peak hour demand already outstrips available seats on the West Coast mainline services.
(19) These start with PageRank, the breakthrough bearing the surname of Google's co-founder Larry Page that measures a website's relevance by the number of other sites linked to it, and extend to measures of the unique content on the site itself and whether the text on the page is replicated – either on other parts of the site or elsewhere on the web – and even whether it is spelt correctly.
(20) Kim Yo-jong, whose name is also spelt Kim Yeo-jung, is believed to act as an adviser for her brother, as other members of the Kim family have done relatives did previously for both him and his father, the late leader Kim Jong-il , before him.