(n.) One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
(n.) Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.
(n.) A hair of the beard.
(n.) One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
(n.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Writing in the journal Nature , the researchers describe how our ancestors lost another piece of DNA that gives rise to both facial whiskers and sensitive spines on the tip of the penis, both of which are found in chimpanzees and other non-human primates.
(2) They also suggest that both the migration of cortical neurons on glia and the refinement of the mapping between the peripheral whisker field and its cortical representation may depend upon the distribution of substrate adhesion molecules.
(3) The figures on Tuesday mean Osborne has, by a whisker, achieved his promise that his austerity measures would bring year-on-year cuts in the UK's annual deficit.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(5) Follicles and whisker pads cultured with minoxidil, then washed for one h in media were devoid of minoxidil-immunoreactivity.
(6) In the present experiments we manipulated the tactile experience of young rats by depriving them of the sensory information that is normally provided by their large facial whiskers.
(7) In addition to the well-documented role of intracortical connectivity in elaboration of multi-whisker receptor fields in the cortical neurones, the role played by direct inputs from multi-whisker thalamic ventrobasal neurones was discussed.
(8) The whisker-to-barrel pathway of the adult mouse was used in a study on the effects of peripheral sensory deprivation on GAD-immunoreactivity in the somatosensory cortex.
(9) Condition b was investigated by calculating the mean and the variance of the time required for the diffusion of a molecule (the proximal tip of the fiber) on a spherical surface (whose radius is the distance from the tip to the whisker tethering point) into a circular sink (the baseplate site).
(10) A normally transient cross-modal thalamocortical projection from the magnocellular subdivision of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGm) to the primary somatosensory (SI) cortex of rats was found to remain unchanged throughout adulthood following unilateral removal of whiskers in newborn animals.
(11) Following displacement of an adjacent whisker, unit discharges to subsequent deflections of the maximally excitatory whisker were reduced in a time-dependent fashion.
(12) Whiskers contacted the discriminanda along the hair shaft, not at the whisker tips.
(13) On the other hand, none of the upper one-half or two-thirds implants regenerated a dermal papilla, and no whisker production was observed.
(14) Indeed, the present findings suggest that the representation of the whiskers in SII may have a specialized function paralleling that in SI.
(15) Of 134 neurons that were noted as either sustained or transient based on the response to a maintained whisker deflection, 50 were sustained-type neurons and 84 were transient-type neurons.
(16) Democrats also won the battle for lieutenant governor and were within a whisker of securing the post of attorney general – an unprecedented sweep in a state that until recently was a Republican stronghold.
(17) We found that normal barrel fields and abnormal barrel fields caused by supernumerary whiskers or lesions to the whisker pad are closely approximated by this mathematical formalism.
(18) The deprived barrel cortices, examined in adults, showed drastically diminished intracortical projections relative to normal controls, although the map of the whiskers in the cortex was unchanged.
(19) These data indicate that PA and CA antisera identify two cell populations in whisker-related regions of the V brainstem complex and that PA cells are somatotopically patterned in PrV, SpI, and SpC.
(20) To study minoxidil's action on isolated follicles we developed and validated an organ culture system using mouse whisker follicles.
Whiskey
Definition:
(n.) Same as Whisky, a liquor.
(n.) Alt. of Whisky
(n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
(2) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(3) With the demand for Irish whiskey out there in the world this is a no-brainer.
(4) Among five alcoholic beverages (shochu, beer, sake, whiskey and wine), both sake and beer showed a dose-response relationship with the risk of adenomatous polyps although the association with beer was less striking.
(5) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
(6) Orange juice significantly reduced 65Zn absorption and milk also showed this tendency, but tea, whiskey, wine or beer had no significant effect on the absorption of 65Zn from the turkey meal.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Downtown Clifton motel, Tucson Among recent openings are Batch Café & Bar , which majors on the surprising pairing of whiskey and doughnuts; Carriage House , which offers dim sum brunches and cooking classes by chef Janos Wilder; Elviras , an upscale Mexican (with the border so close, Tucson’s food is multicultural), and Charro Steak , a ranch-to-table grill with a Sonoran twist.
(8) The Lochranza hotel overlooks the castle and loch and has a vast selection of malt whiskeys.
(9) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
(10) But BAT wasn’t concerned by his record in banking, looking instead to his 22 years with Irish Distillers, during which time he was credited with turning Jameson whiskey into an internationally-recognised brand.
(11) All had tests of granulocyte, humoral, and cell-mediated immune function before and at the end of eight to 28 days' intake of approximately 0.75 liter of 100-proof whiskey per day.
(12) Cirrhotic patients were rarely nondrinkers but drank whiskey excessively.
(13) Owing to the small numbers of subjects drinking one beverage exclusively, it was necessary to classify drinkers as consumers of predominantly beer, wine, or hard liquor (i.e., more than 50% of their whiskey equivalents of alcohol derived from a specific beverage).
(14) Mailer responded at a Manhattan dinner party in 1977 by throwing a glass of whiskey in Vidal's face, head-butting him and then throwing a punch.
(15) Lead poisoning arising from "moonshine whiskey" drinking has been associated with a rise in plasma renin activity.
(16) In a bucolic corner of the County Kerry coastline, pub chain owner Oliver Hughes has opened one of a few independent whiskey distilleries in Ireland.
(17) Wine and whiskey are directly related to rectal cancer, but beer is the only alcoholic beverage that displays a statistically significant dose-response (P = 0.008).
(18) It was set in an office Christmas party and politely reminded women: “Four single whiskeys, and the risk of accident can be twice as great… If he’s been drinking, don’t let him drive.” Since then the number of deaths caused by drink-drive accidents has fallen from 1,640, when detailed reporting began in 1979, to 280 in 2012 (although there were 9,990 casualties resulting from 6,670 drink-drive accidents ).
(19) I didn't crack into the whiskey too much, but I think Maslow would agree that the quality and quantity of food on offer allowed me to push myself to think about bigger, meatier things than normal.
(20) Whiskey and sugar careening through my system, I defy the orders on my ticket not to photograph anything, and I tweet a picture of the bar menu.