(a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
(2) His father, a teacher, introduced him to serious drama, but young Bill also experienced raffish visual entertainment from the visiting Sadler’s Wells Ballet.
(3) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
(4) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
(5) He was always impeccably turned out - always a suit and tie, when the rest of us slobs slumped around the screening rooms in jeans - though he favoured a raffish cravat, brilliant white slacks and a huge pair of aviator-style sunglasses when on the Croisette at Cannes.
(6) The Tories have raffishly gathered at the country's best loved steeplechase race course this weekend, on the northern edge of town.
(7) She is the daughter of the Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret, and the raffish society snapper Lord Snowdon .
(8) The epitome of raffish cool in the Kate Moss days, he’s now actively positioning himself as a grumpy micromanaged has-been.
(9) Raffish, good-natured, and quintessentially English in his propensity to say sorry, Perry is now at agonies to insist his comments were ill-informed.
(10) A woman placed in the role of an action hero or a criminal adventurer is empowered, heroic, raffish.
(11) With its clubby green armchairs and smoothly attentive waiters, it's old school in the best possible way; what used to be called "raffish".
(12) Similarly, when Billy starts shooting large numbers of people through their heads in a breezy and cheerful fashion, you're supposed to take this as part of his raffish charm.
(13) Bill Astor, who had introduced the two lovers at the poolside party at the family seat, had a raffish reputation of his own - and he was David's elder brother.
(14) Teachout gives us a fast-moving overview of Mencken's career, his influential co-editorship of the raffish society magazine Smart Set and of the countercultural American Mercury, his amorous bachelordom, his final decades when his memoirs gave him a renewed popularity after years in political exile during the 1930s.
(15) A raffish or mysterious aura, it seems to me, is just as helpful when it comes to making a class pay attention as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Hundred Years' War.
Ratfish
Definition:
(n.) Same as Rat-tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ratfish serum proteins have been fractionated by ammonium sulfate, followed by gel filtration on Sepharose 6B.
(2) Elephantfish and pig glucagons differ at only four positions, but there are six changes from the ratfish glucagon-36 (normal glucagon contains 29 residues) sequence.
(3) Brain extract from the spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei, contains gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-like peptides in both sexes.
(4) Sertoli cells in the ratfish entirely surround a clone of spermatids to form a spermatocyst.
(5) A potent, highly selective bombesin receptor antagonist completely abolished the stimulation of amylase release caused by the ratfish peptide, demonstrating the specificity of the response.
(6) A highly purified bombesin-like peptide-containing fraction stimulated amylase release in a dose-responsive fashion from rat pancreatic acini; the dose-response curve was parallel to a bombesin standard, and the ratfish peptide stimulated the same maximal rate of amylase secretion as the bombesin standard.
(7) The primary structure of insulin from the Holocephalan fish, Hydrolagus colliei (the ratfish), has been established by automated Edman degradation as: (Formula: see text).
(8) The presence of a COOH-terminal extension to the B-chain is consistent with the occurrence of a single base mutation in the region of the gene encoding one of the dibasic residue processing sites [Arg31(AGA)----Ile* (AUA)] with the result that the ratfish has utilised an alternative cleavage site within the C-peptide region of proinsulin.
(9) Two molecular forms of glucagon-like peptide were isolated from the ratfish pancreas.
(10) A 36-amino-acid-residue peptide was isolated from the pancreas of a holocephalan fish, the Pacific ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei), that shows homology (69%) to mammalian glucagon in its N-terminal region and is reactive towards an N-terminally directed antiserum.
(11) Spermiogenesis in the ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) is characterized by unusual changes in the basic proteins of the nucleus.
(12) Ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) intestines were boiled in water to inactivate proteases and then treated with cold 4% trifluoroacetic acid to extract bombesin-like peptides.
(13) Pituitary extracts from all animals, except the ratfish, goldfish and trout, contained IR-CGRP.
(14) The ratfish represents the most primitive organism that contains a form of GnRH that coelutes with chicken II and salmon II GnRH.
(15) The insulin B-chain contains 31 residues, one more than mammalian insulins, but markedly less than that of the closely related ratfish with which it otherwise exhibits high sequence similarity.
(16) The insulin with 38 amino acids in the B-chain was equipotent with human insulin in inhibiting the binding of radiolabelled human insulin to rat fat cells but the maximum effect of ratfish insulin upon the transport of 3-O-methylglucose into the cells was only 65% of the maximum effect of human insulin.
(17) In contrast to the heavy chain, the ratfish light chains display low sequence similarity with their shark kappa counterparts.
(18) It is argued that the ratfish GnRH molecule has been retained for over 400 million years of evolution and is expressed in most vertebrate classes.
(19) The amino acid compositions of both rabbit fish and ratfish insulins demonstrated a value consistently lower than that expected for the leucine content of the peptides.
(20) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the ratfish brain has been isolated and purified using reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography.