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Grab Rail - Sailing (gambling) and syringe (iou)


Grab Rail - Sailing (gambling)


See hand rail.

syringe (iou)



syringe noun & verb. LME.
[medieval Latin syringa, formed as SYRINX.]
A. noun.
A small cylindrical instrument, typically consisting of a tube fitted with a nozzle and a piston or bulb, for drawing in a quantity of liquid and ejecting it forcibly in a stream, used in medicine esp. for injecting drugs, vaccines, etc., through a needle and cleansing wounds or body cavities. Now also, a similar instrument used for various purposes, as compressing air, squirting water over plants, etc. LME.
A natural structure or organ resembling a syringe, as in certain bugs. E19.
Comb.: syringe passage a technique for maintaining a strain of micro-organisms or parasitic protozoans by transferring them through generations of laboratory animals by inoculation with a syringe; syringe-passage verb trans. subject to syringe passage.
b. verb trans.
Treat with a syringe; spray liquid into (the passage of the ear, a wound) or on to (a plant) with a syringe. LME.
Inject (liquid) with a syringe. M17.
syringeful noun as much as a syringe will hold M18.