(n.) The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
(n.) The nose of a man; -- in contempt.
(n.) The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.
(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
(v. t.) To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that proteins whose size, charge, and biochemical behavior are very similar to those of desmoplakin I and band 5 protein of cow snout epidermis are present in all desmosomes examined.
(2) The broadcasting regulator received 122 complaints from viewers concerned that it appeared that Wendy had a mechanical device covering her snout to make her “talk”, and that caused the animal distress.
(3) Receptor threshold was best measured not in air but with the snout immersed in tap water.
(4) A polypeptide of identical molecular mass (Mr 83,000) and charge to desmosomal plakoglobin from bovine snout epidermis was identified in soluble and pelletable fractions from diverse tissues and cells of different mammalian species, including cells and tissues devoid of desmosomes (e.g.
(5) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(6) While all three were considered effective for symptom relief, there was a clear preference for both of the new longer, snout-like nozzle adapters over the currently available delivery system.
(7) In other words, it can be said that the minor reflexive movements of the jaw might have been controlled by the sensory inputs coming from the snout sensory receptor organs.
(8) Behavioral arousal evoked by lightly touching the fish on the snout or over the eye resembled spontaneous arousal observed in the field and consisted of eye withdrawal, fin erection, and attempted swimming.
(9) When the snout was uncovered a lamb in good condition drew its first breath and the spreading of the contrast material into the peripheral parts of the lungs was almost explosive.
(10) The difference in the two established outlines of the snout represented the changes in size and shape in two dimensions that had occurred during the 10 weeks period.
(11) Epidermal explants from the snout region of 12.5- to 13-day embryos were grown in culture for periods of up to 2 weeks.
(12) When euthanized 15 days after the last DNT administration no snout lesions were found in passively immunized piglets, whereas control animals showed severe turbinate atrophy and other changes typical for atrophic rhinitis.
(13) Many showed the following aberrant neurological signs: Pallaesthesia and dermolexia were extinct in the lower extremities; the ankle jerks could not be elicited; the palmomental, orbicularis oris reflex, grasping and the snout reflexes were positive; there was a hypokinetic-hypertonic motor syndrome.
(14) Quantitative DNA cytophotometric investigations were performed to clarify some aspects of the differentiation and fate of nuclei in bovine snout and human epidermis representing various sites and different degrees of keratinization.
(15) The behavior categories included grooming, yawning, turning, nodding and gnawing, as well as snout contact and nonsnout contact variants of locomoting, rearing and sitting.
(16) Among five efts of the smallest size (26.54 plus or minus 2.20 mm snout-to-vent length), and displaying bright orange dorsal skin coloration, all carpal rudiments were cartilaginous.
(17) After movements along these two dimensions increase in amplitude and involve the whole body, vertical (dorsal-ventral) head scans with snout contact (along vertical surfaces) typically appear, and increase gradually in amplitude.
(18) Separate dorsal, lateral and ventral cartilages and fenestrations in the septal cartilage permit snout flexibility.
(19) Absence of snout contact was induced by placement of the rat on a square elevated platform.
(20) At slaughter, individual pig lungs and snout were examined for lesions of pneumonia and atrophic rhinitis, respectively.
(superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
(superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
(n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, Stout felt that the high mitotic rate was the best predictor of malignancy, but he recognized that some tumors, even with low rates, could metastasize.
(2) The cell bodies are usually between 8 and 10 mu in diameter and have dividing pseudopodial processes which may be broad or narrow, flat or stout, smooth or varicosed.
(3) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
(4) It also highlights law professor Lynn Stout’s recent book, The Shareholder Value Myth .
(5) Stout – even the name is robust: broad-mouthed and curtly clipped at the end.
(6) Tune into BBC1 on Sunday morning and you will find the corporation complicit in Marr's convalescent strategy of stout denial.
(7) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
(8) A stout man with close-cropped hair, Jones was dressed in denim, his temples soaked with sweat.
(9) Heat the sugar, cocoa powder, double cream, stout and salt in a small pan until scalding.
(10) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
(11) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
(12) This investigation is a replication and extension of an earlier study by Stout, Holmes, and Rothstein (1977) of the predoctoral clinical psychology intern graduates at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute.
(13) The differential diagnosis of the morphological substrate is discussed and the preference of the termination introduced by Stout and Lattes is established.
(14) The pyriform cells had a short stem from which extended 4-5 stout dendrites, while the fusiform cells extended similar dendrites from the soma.
(15) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
(16) There’s nothing flash or trendy about it, just an immaculate, traditionally brewed, higher alcohol stout; a reminder that, for all the cool stuff going on in the beer world today, you can always learn from the past.
(17) At the pub on the island there was a concertina-player and we got the feeling – fuelled by pints of rich dark stout – that we were being absorbed into a community.
(18) The stout-candied air, high beams and heavy pews are reminiscent of church-scale pubs on Galway’s Quay Street, but the beams are hung with Arthurian standards.
(19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
(20) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.