(n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
(n.) An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
(v. t.) To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
(n.) A kind of raised seedcake.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of scalp hypothermia in connection with chemotherapy was evaluated as hair protection in 61 women with disseminated breast carcinoma, where earlier treatment routines had caused wig-requiring alopecia in nearly all patients.
(2) Which sounds fun, but not when you’re in fourth grade, doing homework Facebook Twitter Pinterest With his mother, wearing her chemotherapy wig, in New York, 1997.
(3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(4) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
(5) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
(6) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
(7) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(8) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
(9) It is tempting to think of Sherman’s own face in among them as a 13th wig stand.
(10) "It's mainly about big government contracts, for the big wigs," he said.
(11) At least I think they're wigs – her hair changes colour and style quite often.
(12) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
(14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
(15) The resulting theatre work revolves around an attempt, also entirely true, by a Quebecois filmmaker called Yves Simoneau to make a movie about the murder, in which the script's homicidal leading character disguises himself with false eyebrows and a wig.
(16) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
(17) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
(18) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(19) Excellent aesthetic results were obtained with the use of a wig.
(20) Many actors merely go on the principle of "being their age" and trusting to a wig.
Wigg
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Wig
Example Sentences:
(1) (Chamberlin, M.J., Nierman, W.C., Wiggs, J. and Neff, N. (1979) J. Biol.
(2) Philip Wigge Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University The assumption that only GM crops will feed the world represents a position contested by scientists, food producers and civil society groups everywhere.
(3) But Profumo was the focus of antipathy for old sweats such as Kerby and the Labour MP Lieutenant-Colonel George Wigg.
(4) To this end, RBcDNA clones or several polymorphic markers which link to the RB gene have been identified and used for the diagnosis of retinoblastoma predisposition and five RFLP markers within the RB gene have been shown to be useful (Wiggs et al.
(5) The one I was shown involved responding to action commands – freeze, reach, hop, “squirm like a wiggly worm” – freezing between each one.
(6) The major RNA products are specific transcripts from T7 promoters A(1) and C; these promoters are also efficiently utilized by RNA polymerases purified from a wide range of other bacterial species [Wiggs, J., Bush, J.
(7) 200 kilobases [kb]) and its multiple dispersed exons (Wiggs et al., N. Engl.
(8) In January 1963, he informed George Wigg, Harold Wilson's intelligence chief, that Ward's protégé Christine Keeler, previously the girlfriend of property speculator Peter Rachman, had had a four-month affair with Profumo after a brief fling with the Soviet naval attache Evegeny Ivanov.
(9) The practice of geriatric medicine most properly should begin not when the dog or cat reaches some specific "golden" age, but rather when the wiggly, robust puppy or kitten receives its first examination.
(10) Soon after, the jury was told, Floorgraphics began to lose crucial contracts with key clients – Safeway, Winn-Dixie, the South Carolina retail chain Piggly Wiggly and others – many of whom defected to News America.
(11) Selected to succeed George Wigg at Dudley, he lost the 1968 byelection to the Conservative Donald Williams, but won in 1970.
(12) Her agent, Michael Wiggs, said: "There's no truth whatsoever in any suggestion that Sam is 'quitting' Eastenders over the current storyline.