Son of Kingsley Amis. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin deserving of esteem and respect; exerting force.
Slang UK for a period of time in jail the flesh of a bird or fowl wild or domestic used as food warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings watch and study birds in their natural habitat. Curried lentil dish small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics.
American football a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards" usually plural a rolling treeless highland with little soil away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida" becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market" being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth" bring down or defeat an opponent cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She kil.
A knight's glove or gauntlet thrown to declare combat a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. Smith was just one of the girls" a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" a young woman; "a young lady of 18" a youthful female person; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle".
English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years the large room of a manor or castle United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos the two satellites of Mars United S. New Testament disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation a prostitute's customer a room or building equipped with one or more toilets the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament youngest son of Henry II; King of England from to ; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta British artist and writer of nonsense verse the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters.
