Frena

Word FRENA
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Plural of frenum. noun

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Negocios de Búsqueda: Yahoo se reorganiza otra vez, Google no se frena con 10 años, ¿Microsoft compra Powerset? ❋ Michael Arrington (2005)

= At _Tr_ V iv 15-16 Ovid had used _frena recusare_ of a horse: 'fert tamen, ut debet, casus patienter amaros,/more nec indomiti _frena recusat_ equi'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiæ, because I have not found them to be branchiæ; whereas _he himself_ admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiæ. ❋ James Marchant (N/A)

The only instances I have found that are not from Ovid's didactic verse are the present passage and xii 23-24 'tu bonus hortator, tu duxque comesque fuisti,/cum regerem tenera frena nouella manu'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

In prose, the word is often used of young plants or farm animals; and here _frena nouella_ may well be a metonymy for _frena nouellorum equorum_. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

II ix 33 'Caesar ut _imperii_ moderetur _frena_ precamur', and _EP_ II v ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

= For the image, see at ii 23 _frena remisi_ (p 169). ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

= The same metaphor at _Tr_ II 41-42 'nec te quisquam moderatius umquam/_imperii_ potuit _frena_ tenere sui', _EP_ ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

Alternatively, the word could be equivalent to _noua_ 'new, unfamiliar', as at _Fast_ III 455 'iamque indignanti _noua frena_ receperat ore'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. ❋ Marchant, James (1916)

Ergo dies aderat Parcarum conditus albo uellere, quo Stellae Violentillaeque professus25 clamaretur hymen. cedant curaeque metusque, cessent mendaces obliqui carminis astus, fama tace: subiit leges et frena momordit ille solutus amor: consumpta est fabula uulgi, et narrata diu uiderunt oscula ciues. ❋ Unknown (1912)

These cirripedes have no branchiæ, the whole surface of the body and of the sack, together with the small frena, serving for respiration. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The ovigerous frena of certain cirripedes, which have ceased to give attachment to the ova and are feebly developed, are nascent branchiæ. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Therefore it need not be doubted that the two little folds of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which, likewise, very slightly aided in the act of respiration, have been gradually converted by natural selection into branchiæ simply through an increase in their size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Now I think no one will dispute that the ovigerous frena in the one family are strictly homologous with the branchiæ of the other family; indeed, they graduate into each other. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The Balanidæ or sessile cirripedes, on the other hand, have no ovigerous frena, the eggs lying loose at the bottom of the sack, within the well-enclosed shell; but they have, in the same relative position with the frena, large, much-folded membranes, which freely communicate with the circulatory lacunæ of the sack and body, and which have been considered by all naturalists to act as branchiæ. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Pedunculated cirripedes have two minute folds of skin, called by me the ovigerous frena, which serve, through the means of a sticky secretion, to retain the eggs until they are hatched within the sack. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Quid ergo deficis animo, et deesse tibi aliquid putas, si non tibi equus producitur phaleris exornatus et spumanti ore frena mandens argentea? ❋ Unknown (1895)

The second act contains a powerful duet ( "Le tradirmi tu potrai") between Lucy and Henry; but the musical interest of the act centres in the great sextet, "Chi mi frena," which ensues when ❋ Unknown (1876)

Therefore I do not doubt that little folds of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which, likewise, very slightly aided the act of respiration, have been gradually converted by natural selection into branchiae, simply through an increase in their size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands. ❋ Unknown (1859)

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