Benson looked up and saw Ramey's long head tilt forward to rub his chin on the stiff edge of the overall bib.

However, ethologist Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt found that in places as different as Africa and North America, women exhibit similar flirting behavior: prolonged stare followed by a head tilt away with a little smile.

In particular, the atlas – axis joint ( C1 and C2 ) allows the animal to tilt its head vertically and reach more branches with the tongue.

Look at a white area on the screen, and slowly tilt the head ( a CRT monitor has no polarizer, and will not work for this purpose unless a separate polarizer is used ).

Circular polarization is used so the image separation is maintained even if the viewer tilts their head ( although the depth effect will suffer as the head tilt increases ), which would not be possible with the more usual linear polarizers.

RCA had always insisted their performers stay still as they sang so the microphone would pick up the vocals ; even the slightest tilt of the head would result in missing sound.

* the range of motion of the cervical spine: the subject should be able to tilt the head back and then forward so that the chin touches the chest.

Ball joints often allow more liberal movement than a cut, such as the figure's head being able to tilt in addition to a cut's strict vertical rotation.

* Leitz Focomat Ia – Same as Focomat 1C, that is with autofocus, but the head does not tilt back to allow for easy insertion of negative.

They allow call center agents to maintain better posture without needing to hand-hold a handset or tilt their head sideways to cradle it.

The head of a Film Camera Tripod allows free flowing movement with which you can easily track a subject or pan left / right as well as tilt up and down.

The head connects to the frame by several joints, allowing the camera to pan, tilt and roll.

It can be caused by a condition called torticollis in which neck muscles on one side of the head develop differently, causing the head to tilt to one side, but more commonly it happens in infants of ordinary development who sleep in one position for long periods of time.

In American Sign Language ( ASL ), for instance, raised eyebrows combined with a slightly forward head tilt indicate that what is being signed is a yes / no question.

To compensate for this, patients learn to tilt the head forward ( tuck the chin in ) in order to bring the fields back together – to fuse the two images into a single visual field.

Alfred Bielschowsky's head tilt test is a test for palsy of the superior oblique muscle caused by damage to cranial nerve IV ( trochlear nerve ).

A tilt of the main upright, controls the head and body with a fine nuance, This type of control is usually called the Bristish control

Together with James Elam, he rediscovered the airway, head tilt, chin lift ( Step A ) and the mouth-to-mouth breathing ( Step B ) components of CPR and influenced Norwegian doll maker Asmund Laerdal of Laerdal company to design and manufacture mannequins for CPR training called Resusci Anne.

Second 4 counts, put upper arms straight out to side, and let forearms dangle loosely, and tilt head to side.

Or, clad from head to toe in fabric stretched over a series of hoops, the performer may well lose his sense of self in being a `` finial ''.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

In turn, the origin of aleph may have been a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).

" You may ... fear that the chest pains are a deadly heart attack or that the shooting pains in your head are the result of a tumor or aneurysm.

There may also be tremor of the head and trunk ( titubation ) in individuals with cerebellar ataxia.

The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery.

In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

Tooth wear patterns hint that complex head shaking behaviours may have been involved in tyrannosaur feeding.

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If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

The infection may also be introduced through a skull fracture following a head trauma or surgical procedures.

Sometimes a metropolitan may also be the head of an autocephalous, sui iuris, or autonomous church when the number of adherents of that tradition are small.

It has a large, creamy, persistent head ( although head retention may be impaired by alcohol in the stronger versions ).

Amateur bouts which end this way may be noted as " RSC " ( referee stopped contest ) with notations for an outclassed opponent ( RSCO ), outscored opponent ( RSCOS ), injury ( RSCI ) or head injury ( RSCH ).

It has been speculated that his ancestor Iddo was the head of a priestly family who returned with Zerubbabel (), and that Zechariah may himself have been a priest as well as a prophet.

An EEG may be used to exclude epilepsy, and a CT scan of the head to exclude brain lesions.

We also have an ' engineering section head -- research engineer ' classification which has salary possibilities equivalent to that of a research engineer.

There had also been a man who must have had St. Vitus or something, because he kept jerking his head.

Dr. Hester, also one of the youngest men ever to head a major American university, succeeds Dr. Carroll V. Newsom who resigned last September to join Prentice-Hall Inc. publishing firm.

Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

His advisor in these affairs was Eusebius of Nicomedia, who had already at the Council of Nicea been the head of the Arian party, who also was made bishop of Constantinople.

Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.

Wide openings in the skull ( fenestrae ) reduced the weight of the head while also providing space for muscle attachment and sensory organs.

He also has a " shooting license ," certifying him as sporadically not responsible for his actions due to a head wound, though he is clearly quite sane and exploiting his license so he can stay in the hospital and away from the war as long as possible.

It also has a wide fingerboard and slotted head like a nylon-string guitar.

They also have longer, woolier hair that moults every February to April, showing faint spots on the head, neck and limbs.

Bulletproof vests also began to be used, which were of limited utility, restricting movement and leaving the head unprotected – so they only tended to be worn during high-profile public events, if at all.

Harpoons were also called throwing-arrows when the pointed head fit loosely into the socket of the foreshaft and the head was able to detach from the harpoon when it penetrated an animal, and remain in the wound.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

Botswana's cabinet is headed by the President, who is also head of government.

The pope, in addition to being the Bishop of Rome and spiritual head of the Catholic Church, is also the Patriarch of the Latin Rite.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

Due to his knowledge, reputation, and active support for the cause of Islam, in 1972, a 15-member council selected him as head of Jamiat-e Islami of Afghanistan ; the founder of Jamiat-e Islami of Afghanistan, Ghulam M. Niyazi was also present.

It also recommended that the governors-general, the representatives of the King who acted for the Crown as de facto head of state in each dominion, should no longer also serve automatically as the representative of the British government in diplomatic relations between the countries.