(n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.
(n.) A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection.
Example Sentences:
(1) I seem to see Madonna Grimes drifting vacantly from job to job, a perambulating pain in the neck wherever she works.
(2) A brief account is given of a person, small in stature, with retarded development, who, following the breakdown of marital intimacy and the failure of his efforts to adopt a child, found sexual satisfaction by defecating in unoccupied perambulators and subsequently inflicting damage on them.
(3) The Steinway's perambulations are a symbol of that cumbrous, precious heritage of images and ideas that the refugees from Hitler carried into exile.
(4) Taking our afternoon perambulations, Sir Henry and I encountered the local naturalist John Stapleton out on the moor with his sister.
(5) Dancers will negotiate the slippery limestone rocks, disappearing into underground passageways and then popping up later in front of the perambulating audience; a choir's singing will rise as if from the centre of the earth.
(6) The abdominal symptoms develop latently and surgery prevalently ensues during the stage of intestinal wall necrosis or perambulating peritonitis.
Peregrination
Definition:
(n.) A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Look out for peregrine falcons and ravens riding the cliffupdraughts, and in spring listen for the tinkling songs of redstarts.
(2) Tundra peregrine eggs contain an average of 889 parts of DDE per million (lipid basis); taiga peregrine eggs contain 673 parts per million; Aleutian peregrine eggs contain 167 parts per million; rough-legged hawk eggs contain 22.5 parts per million; and gyrfalcon eggs contain 3.88 parts per million.
(3) A significant post-prandial increase of plasma bile acid concentration (PBAC) was observed in peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus).
(4) Variation observed at one o of the sex-linked fragments in peregrines has proven to be useful in distinguishing a subset of the tundrius subspecies of this endangered raptor.
(5) We let the owners of grouse moors , 1% of the 1%, shoot and poison hen harriers, peregrines and eagles.
(6) The path follows the course of the river back to the roaring whirlpool – but between these forces of nature, it offers tranquility, surrounded not just by the forests but by hundreds of wildlife species, from rare flowers to abundant salamanders and peregrine falcons.
(7) "It was a peregrine back in the big storms of 1987.
(8) It later apologised after the review's author, former Sunday Telegraph editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, complained to the Press Complaints Commission.
(9) The authors suggest that disease simulation, peregrination, and imposture are secondary behavioral manifestations of pseudologia, which is deserving of additional study.
(10) Tundra and taiga peregrines have fledged progressively fewer young each year since 1966.
(11) It's not essentially to do with money: if you're a kid who goes to a museum and tries to draw a peregrine falcon, that's your art world.
(12) Münchhausen's syndrome is characterized by fictitious illnesses associated with hospital peregrination, pseudologia fantastica with a mythomanic discourse that includes strongly structured medical elements, passivity and dependance at examinations, and aggressiveness.
(13) On the basis of 3 new case reports and a statistic processing of literature case histories, this paper suggests that when using the original criteria by Asher, the syndrome constitutes a subtype of chronic factitious disorders, specially characterized by factitious illness, peregrination, pseudologia fantastica and dramatic admission circumstances.
(14) There is a highly significant negative correlation between shell thickness and DDE content in peregrine eggs.
(15) Studies on reproductive success in Great Britain and data on eggshell-thinning suggest that DDE residues above 20 ppm wet weight in peregrine eggs are associated with inability to maintain population levels.
(16) Yellowstone’s latest surveys also show that a five-year effort to conserve aerial predators such as hawks and eagles has been successful, with numbers of peregrines remaining stable and the nesting success of bald eagles and ospreys “above the long-term averages for both species during the last several years”.
(17) It's deep and Bravo does well to get a flying fist to the ball ahead of Sergio Ramos, who tends to be more dangerous in the air than a peregrine falcon.
(18) Norman Mailer asked for marijuana, and Sir Peregrine Worsthorne for hallucinogenic drugs, but these are not bad things to have to pass away the time, if one is inclined in that direction.
(19) We haven't been able to find anything more miserable than that, Peregrine, but were amused to find that Europe's least appealing club competition may well be the InterToto Cup.
(20) Like other birds of prey, the harrier has been protected by law since 1954, but while buzzards and peregrine falcons have recovered their numbers, in England, hen harriers are now close to extinction .