The behaviour of the Lapwing scarcely justifies such a conclusion, for all its actions denote a striving towards some end which we can describe, and it seems to gain satisfaction only when the ejection of the intruder has been accomplished.
Young Son and Auld Son are phrases used only to denote the comparative ages of children.
Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.
Terms used to denote color Note: The color term refers to the wrapper only.
Some of these terms merely denote particular brands put out by certain makers and to distinguish their products.
There is a word used in Scripture to denote a reptilian monster, which appears in one instance at least to refer to this dragon of eclipse, and so to be used in an astronomical sense.
The letters were only adopted later todenote dates previous to those which we call 'A.
Old Lecour, to denote his satisfaction at his son's return, brought forth his fiddle and played some of the merry airs of the Province, an action which touched Germain's heart.
The other was a stranger, but there was something in his demeanor, in the very cut of his clothes, which seemed to denote his profession.
It does not have a multiplicity of verb forms to denote mode and tense, but when necessary does denote them with elegance and precision, by auxiliary verbs and adverbs, very much as we do in English.
On the other hand the Dakota could not vary the form of the verb to denote any of these things except number, with reference to either subject or object.
The courts have interpreted commerce to denote not merely a mutual selling or traffic, but as "a term of the largest import," including intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all its forms (Gibbons v.
Roman court, and gave his abridgment the name of Breviary, which thus came to denote a work which from another point of view might be called a Plenary, involving as it did the collection of several works into one.
This is todenote that the tree has been devoted to a demon; and sometimes to Vishnu or the Kattregam dewol.
In the first two cases the word may have been used to denote the whole council.
Eiffel, a French engineer, whose name would seem to denote a German origin, proposed the tower with which his name is now for ever associated five years before the date fixed for the Universal Exhibition.
The word "comedy" was used in France in the early days of its stage to denote any kind of theatrical entertainment.
The lines in sectional shading or cross-hatching may be made to denote the material of which the piece is to be composed.
Perspective sketches todenote the shape of the piece, 93.
Shading by means of lines may be used with excellent effect in mechanical drawing, not only to distinguish round from flat surfaces, but also to denote to the eye the relative distances of surfaces.
Now we might mark a cross on the square part, to denote that it is square; but this is unnecessary, because the curves F G show such to be the case.
Perspective sketches may be used for single pieces, as they denote the shape of the piece more clearly to the eye.
Line shading is often used to denote that the piece represented is to be of wood, the shade lines being in some cases regular in combination with regular ones, or entirely irregular, as in Figure 114.
An example of line shading to denote the relative distances from the eye of various surfaces is given in Figure 113, where the surfaces most distant are the most shaded.
In the ancient Egyptian monuments these Ostrich plumes are repeatedly shown, and in every case denotevery high rank.
Adjectives and participles are followed by the preposition i (not e, which belongs only to passive verbs), to denote the agency or instrumentality by which the effect has been or is to be produced.
The islands, in the prophetic style, seem particularly todenote the western parts of the world, or the European nations; the west being often called the sea in the Scripture language.
The lionsdenote metaphorically the great and powerful among the people.
The cruel shepherds denotethe tyrants into whose hands Israel was delivered, who disdained to nourish that poor flock, but sold some to slavery, and gave up others to be slaughtered.
Rivers denotein prophetic language, the people residing on their borders.
In the Waterton 'Dactyliotheca' is an early Christian ring having 'the Holy Church represented by a pillar, on which are figured twelve dots, which denote the twelve apostles.
Seven P's, to denote the seven sins (Peccata) of which he was to be cleansed in his passage through purgatory.
