(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
(n.) See 2d Pawn.
Example Sentences:
(1) If any of the poor little peons that they don’t care about don’t have that paycheck coming, they can’t buy your stuff.” To those who say robots are taking more jobs than Mexicans, she points to the number of factories across the border.
(2) But more than anything, Maddox – who did not want her picture taken – voted for the incoming president because she sees him as on the side of people like her, those she calls the “peons” at the mercy of big business and indifferent politicians.
Peony
Definition:
(n.) A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data suggested that hoelen or peony root has a luteotropic effect but that atractylodes lanceae rhizome develops luteolysis.
(2) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
(3) These findings suggested that the anticonvulsant action of peony roots is due primarily to albiflorin and the gallotannin fraction.
(5) The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor-associated protein tyrosine kinase activity has been suggested to play important roles in the EGF-enhanced, clathrin-coated pit-mediated receptor internalization (W. S. Chen, C. S. Lazar, M. Peonie, R. Y. Tsien, G. N. Gill, and M. G. Rosenfeld, 1987, Nature 328, 820-823) but the kinase substrate important for this process has not been identified.
(6) This method can be used for grading white peony root and fufang baishao Tablets.
(7) The water extract of peony roots, albiflorin and pentagalloylglucose given orally completely inhibited the EEG power spectrum changes as well as the extracellular calcium and potassium concentration changes related to seizure activity.
(8) So good to see the degrade and the peony prints being revisited as codes of the house should.
(9) The printed dresses at Peter Pilotto, the peony-print coat dresses at Jonathan Saunders, and the black lace sheathed silks at Erdem all reminded me of the cheongsams from In The Mood For Love .
(10) The compound prescription and its component drugs, except the peony root, possessed significant antispastic effect.
(11) Four kinds of experiments were performed: direct chemical reaction (1) between peony root extract and B [a]p, and (2) between peony root extract and active metabolite(s) of B [a]p, (3) inhibition of metabolic processes of B[a]p with S9 mix, and (4) inhibition of activation on mutagenicity.
(12) In males, the treatment with tree-peony resulted in a significant decline in food intake and of the Lee index, an index of obesity, and an increase in glucose tolerance.
(13) A few seasons ago, London fashion was all about a hi-tech print; now it's all about a peony or a lily or an orchid.
(14) Hoelen, Peony root, Alisma rhizome and Japanese angelica root also augmented progesterone.
(15) Antiproliferative effects of the Japanese-Sino medicine Shimotsu-to (a combined prescription of cnidium rhizome, angelica root, peony root and rehmannia root) were investigated in the primary culture of smooth muscle cells (SMC) of mouse aorta.
(16) The inhibitory effects of peony root extract on the mutagenicity of benzo[a]pyrene (B [a]p) have been investigated in the Salmonella typhimurium reversion test.
(17) Extracts from five other herbs, such as Japanese anglica root (Toki), Peony root (Shakuyaku), Moutan bark (Botanpi), Glycyrrhiza (Kanzo), Bupleurum (Saiko), affected neither the contraction nor the heart rates.
(18) Hoelen + poeny root + Japanese angelica root, hoelen + peony root, hoelen + Japanese angelica root or peony root + Japanese angelica root decreased the IGF-1 level.
(19) The second – a peony on my shoulder – was done in Mexico.
(20) Methods of extraction and detection of ascorbic acid, ergot alkaloids, cotarnine, microfollin, tinctures of marigold, peony, sage-brush, iodine, benzestrol, pachycarpine, hexestrol, folliculin, quinine, ethoxydiaminoacridine lactate were developed.