Crossword clues for stumpknocker
WordNet
adj. of a leaf shape; like an arrow head without flaring base lobes [syn: sagittate, arrow-shaped]
v. feed someone who will not or cannot eat
[also: force-fed]
n. inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish [syn: spotted sunfish, Lepomis punctatus]
Wikipedia
The Mantoux test or Mendel-Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a screening tool for tuberculosis (TB). It is one of the major tuberculin skin tests used around the world, largely replacing multiple-puncture tests such as the tine test. The Heaf test was used until 2005 in the UK, when it was replaced by the Mantoux test. It is endorsed by the American Thoracic Society and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was also used in the USSR and is now prevalent in most of the former Soviet states.
In Memory management, the high memory area (HMA) is the RAM area consisting of 65520 bytes beyond the upper memory area of an IBM AT or compatible computer.
In real mode, the segmentation architecture of the Intel 80286 and subsequent processors identifies memory locations with 16-bit segment and 16-bit offset, which is resolved into a physical address via (segment) x 16 + (offset). Although intended to address only 1 Megabyte (MB) (2 bytes) of memory, segment:offset addresses at FFFF:0010 and beyond reference memory beyond 1 MB (FFFF0 + 0010 = 100000). So this mode can actually address the first 65520 bytes of extended memory as part of the 64 KB range starting 16 bytes before the 1 MB mark—FFFF:0000 (0xFFFF0) to FFFF:FFFF (0x10FFEF). The Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 MB of memory because they had only 20 address lines, wrapped around at the 20th bit, so that address FFFF:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000.
In order to allow running existing MS-DOS programs which relied on this feature on their newer IBM PC AT computers, IBM added special circuitry on the motherboard to simulate the wrapping around. This circuit was a simple logic gate which could disconnect the microprocessor's 21st addressing line, A20, from the rest of the motherboard. This gate could be controlled, initially through the keyboard controller, to allow running programs which wanted to access the entire RAM.
So-called A20 handlers could control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024–1088 KB region and run in real mode. The first user of the HMA among Microsoft products was Windows/286 2.1 in 1988, which introduced the HIMEM.SYS device driver. Starting with versions 5.0 of DR-DOS (1990) and of MS-DOS (1991), parts of the operating system could be loaded into HMA as well, freeing up to 46 KB of conventional memory. Other components, such as device drivers and TSRs, could be loaded into the upper memory area (UMA).
Hamatsa is the name of a Kwakwaka'wakw secret society. During the winter months the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia have many ceremonies practiced by different secret societies. According to the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas, who studied the Kwakwaka'wakw tribe during the late 1880s, there were four main societies: The war society ( Winalagalis), the magical society (Matem), the society of the afterlife ( Bakwas) and the "cannibal" society (Hamatsa).
The Hamatsa society is the most prestigious of all. It is often called a "cannibal" ritual, and some debate has arisen as to whether the Kwakwaka'wakw do or do not practice ritual cannibalism, whether their "cannibalism" is purely symbolic, or literal. Because of the secret nature of the society the answer is not forthcoming.
Stumpknocker may refer to:
- One of various edible freshwater fish, especially the spotted sunfish
- A type of boat
- A beer variety produced by Swamp Head Brewery in Gainesville, Florida.
- Various tour guides, restaurants and other attractions.
- Florida Folk Lore regarding evil spirits abducting children.
Usage examples of "stumpknocker".
Ma altre forze nemiche, numerose e fresche accorsero a sostenere e raccogliere i fuggenti pigliando posizione dietro le alture del monte S.
Le tumulus sur lequel vous etes monte offre un autre temoignage de la piete bretonne.
Turner watercolour behind the wainscoting so we can ballock the boss and eagle off to Monte Carlo.
I accordingly took the opportunity to explain that I myself was in Monte Carlo for reasons connected with the Daffodil settlement, that I had been commissioned by Clementine to investigate the genealogy of the Palgrave family, and that by a curious coincidence my researches had led me to the South of France.
Punta Parise, at the western end of the island, beneath the shadow of Monte Alberto Sole.
Une rampe monte en serpentant a une vieille porte de la ville qui reste debout, flanquee de ses deux tours decrenelees que fleurissent de petits oeillets roses.
Poor Danglars looked so crestfallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.
Poor Danglars looked so crest-fallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.
Monte Cristo pointed to a chair, which the procureur was obliged to take the trouble to move forwards himself, while the count merely fell back into his own, on which he had been kneeling when M.
Monte Cristo to himself, glancing at Madame Danglars, who was smiling on the procureur, and embracing his wife.
It being admitted that the object of the Sacro Monte workmen was to bring a scene home to the spectator in all possible fulness, we expect to have a quotum of our own ideas of the scene, whatever they may be, put before us, and are more or less offended when we find a composition which we consider to be unreal even within its own covenanted limitations.
Hic ante Apollinem ex oraculo in monte Parnasso responsa dare solitus est.
On again visiting Milan I found in the Biblioteca Nazionale a guidebook to the Sacro Monte, which was not in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and of whose existence I had never heard.
Another document which I have in vain tried to see is the plan of the Sacro Monte as it stood towards the close of the sixteenth century, made by Pellegrino Tibaldi with a view to his own proposed alterations.
Val Sesia would not suffice to do justice to all the interesting and important questions which arise wholesale as soon as the chapels on the Sacro Monte are examined with any care.