(n.) A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1980 was his best year for opera: the Cologne company (whose music director, John Pritchard, became a staunch supporter) brought Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Glasgow provided Berg's Wozzeck and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and the festival itself produced a distinguished world premiere in Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.
(2) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
(3) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(4) Blood samples were taken weekly from seventeen mature blue fox vixens (average age five years), from late anoestrus until pro-oestrus, and then taken daily.
(5) On the afternoon of 22 March, three weeks after the blockade began, Patrick’s Sea Vixen jet took off from the deck of Ark Royal on a bombing exercise, to practise dropping 500lb high-explosive bombs on targets placed in the sea.
(6) It appears that the rate of transmission between adult foxes is low; a more common route of transmission is probably from the mother to her offspring or between vixens breeding in the same dens in subsequent years by contamination of the dens.
(7) Completing Gomez's vixen quartet are Vanessa Hudgens, from Disney's High School Musical films, and Ashley Benson, from teen TV series Pretty Little Liars , as well as Korine's wife, Rachel.
(8) To study the pathogenicity of a newly isolated parvovirus of blue fox (Alopex lagopus), pregnant vixens and 43 kits of different ages were experimentally infected with the agent.
(9) A group of 15 blue fox vixens inoculated with the virus produced a statistically smaller number of kits (78) than did 15 untreated controls (131).
(10) Three blue fox vixens inseminated the following year with semen collected and frozen in June from 3 males in Group 6L failed to produce litters.
(11) Chronic ingestion of excessive amounts of fluoride from commercial fox food is associated with agalactia in vixens resulting in the starvation deaths of large numbers of kits in three fox herds.
(12) In the tenth vixen, an LH peak was not observed, and neither visible follicles nor corpora lutea were found in the ovaries 6 days after peak vaginal electrical resistance.
(13) Nine of 10 mature blue fox vixens (Alopex lagopus) in spontaneous oestrus ovulated approximately 2 days after the preovulatory increase in luteinizing hormone (LH).
(14) Embryos from vixens at different stages of gestation were measured and photographed.
(15) After infection, 15 vaccinated vixens gave birth to 97 kits, compared with 54 kits born to a similar, non-vaccinated experimental group.
(16) Effect of oestradiol and progesterone on the electromyographic activity (EMG) of the uterus is studied in 6 groups of 2 previously castrated vixens (A, B, C, D, E, F).
(17) Serena says on top of that, the Sea Vixen was “well-known to be a dangerous aircraft”; her father was one of six Ark Royal Sea Vixen aircrew killed in just 19 months.
(18) She therefore decided to return to acting, on Broadway, as the vixen Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's drama The Little Foxes, which she also played at the Victoria Palace theatre, London, in 1982 to mixed reviews.
(19) The MoD said a small number of "upgraded Snatch Vixen Plus" vehicles were used in Afghanistan, predominantly "behind the wire" on military bases, although they were also used in Kabul where the threat from IEDs was lower.
Whelp
Definition:
(n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
(n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
(n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
(n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
(v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
(v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pancreatic secretion was evaluated in eight pregnant female mongrel dogs prepared with Thomas duodenal and gastric fistulae, during pregnancy (corresponding to the third trimester in humans), during the puerperium, and several months after whelping.
(2) One of seven female coyotes (Canis latrans) captured in Webb County, Texas during September 1986 and confined and mated in holding facilities at Millville, Utah whelped the following spring.
(3) After all pups were whelped, each dog was euthanatized and necropsied, and the testis and epididymis were examined microscopically.
(4) Further consideration is given to its use to estimate the time of ovulation retrospectively and estimate the time of whelping prospectively.
(5) Large cells, probably of uterine symplasma origin, were observed in vaginal lavages following whelping or pseudopregnancy.
(6) Final body weight (FBW) of the whelps was to be predicted from their body weight (BW) in early August (r = 0.689).
(7) They are, however, expected to announce a deal for the Norwegian whelp Martin Odegaard any time now.
(8) It is probable that all breeds of dogs are at risk for these or other traits that influence whelping and neonatal care.
(9) Six bitches were sampled daily, for 10 days, before whelping and then, together with four puppies per litter, at whelping (day 11) and at 1 and 7 days thereafter.
(10) In a second experiment, female mink were provided diets containing 20 ppm ZEN, 20 ppm ZEN plus 0.5% HSCAS or a control diet from 1 January 1989 through whelping (25 April to 15 May 1989).
(11) The malformation rate from two cohorts of females whelping at different times of the year was low (less than 1.0%) and not significantly different.
(12) This included proportion of mink breeding (47 to 100%), proportion giving birth (33 to 80%), and average litter size (2.6 to 4.0 kits per whelping female).
(13) Finally, morphometric analyses revealed a significant increase in epithelial and connective tissue compartment thicknesses, as well as a marked increase in the volume fraction occupied by glands between 1 day and 161 days after dogs were whelped.
(14) Enzyme activities in bitches' serum remained within the normal range for adult dogs throughout whelping and lactation.
(15) Herpesvirus was isolated from the brain, lung, liver, spleen, kidney and intestine of one of the affected litter which died on day 10 after whelping.
(16) A smaller decrease in all 3 measures occurred between 161 and 337 days after the dogs were whelped.
(17) Beagle pups were delivered by cesarean section six days before their predicted whelping date and exposed to an alternating protocol of asphyxial episodes known to produce IVH.
(18) Both veterinary surgeon and dog breeder should be involved in assessing the whelping capability of brood bitches as one essential point in the selection of sound stock.
(19) The fifth bitch did not have elevated progesterone during the induced estrus, and upon return to estrus one month later was successfully bred and whelped a normal litter of 10 pups.
(20) Ip treated dogs whelped 5 pups; im 7 pups; and sc, 5 pups.