Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws close like a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall vendors, forever.

A lightweight ball suspended from a string can be charged by touching it with a glass rod that has itself been charged by rubbing with a cloth.

Each motor-generator has brushes constantly rubbing on a commutator, and axle bearings that need lubrication.

LMP-103S has low toxicity, the " low " toxicity being attributed to the presence of methanol ( a common rubbing alcohol not for internal consumption ).

* Callus – A small area of skin, usually on the foot, that has become thick and hard from rubbing or pressure as a result of increased production of surface skin ( i. e., the topmost living cell layer ); the callus itself is the result of this overgrowth and is itself a thickened ' dead cell surface layer '.

The two older men spot Theaetetus rubbing himself down with oil, and Theodorus reviews the facts about him, that he is intelligent, virile, and an orphan whose inheritance has been squandered by trustees.

Research during 2010 at Swansea University has found that physically removing a fingerprint from a metal surface, for example by rubbing with a tissue, does not necessarily result in the loss of all fingerprint information from that surface.

Hornbostel-Sachs divides drums into three main types: struck drums, where the skin is hit with a stick, the hand, or something else ; string drums, where a knotted string attached to the skin is pulled, passing its vibrations onto the skin ; and friction drums, where some sort of rubbing motion causes the skin to vibrate ( a common type has a stick passing through a hole in the skin which is pulled back and forth ).

A blister may form when the skin has been damaged by friction or rubbing, heat, cold or chemical exposure.

The term " rubbing alcohol " has become a general non-specific term for either isopropyl alcohol ( isopropanol ) or ethyl alcohol ( ethanol ) rubbing-alcohol products.

Wool also has a tendency to absorb fine precipitates from solutions ; these cling to the surface of fibres and dye particles attached to these contaminants result in poor rubbing fastness.

The butterfly has cryptic undersides with flashy eye-spots above and can also make an audible sound by rubbing its wings together, presumably as anti-predator measures.

Since classical antiquity, it has been known that some materials such as amber attract lightweight particles after rubbing.

Once a receptive female has been located, the male will often spend several days following her around ( a behavior that is not common outside of the mating season ), frequently touching and rubbing her in an attempt to stimulate her.

An infestation can be eliminated by killing each bug with a small cottonswab or paintbrush that has been dipped in rubbing alcohol.

The idea that fish do not feel pain in their mouths has been studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Roslin Institute by injecting bee venom and acetic acid into the lips of rainbow trout ; the fish responded by rubbing their lips along the sides and floors of their tanks in an effort to relieve themselves of the sensation.

Michelangelo has a tendency to severely annoy his brother, from playing pranks, to taunting, gloating, and overall rubbing his accomplishments in Raphael's face.

Genital-genital rubbing has been observed between males of other animals as well.

Frot-like genital rubbing between non-human males has been observed among bull manatees, in conjunction with " kissing ".

She also likes rubbing her sister's breasts to tease her because of her own lack of giant breasts, as she only has a 73cm ( A-cup ) bust.

where it has blended in with other percussion instruments alien to the country ( djembe, triangle ..., e. g. the group Ttakunpa ), or rubbing shoulders side by side with autochthonous and foreign melodic instruments, like trikitixa, alboka, accordion or keyboards, while clinging to its rhythmic nature.

Boca Grande has always been a unique community, with a large number of wealthy winter residents rubbing elbows with the fishermen and railroad and port workers who formed the permanent, year-round working population.

Each character has their own theme, for example ; Mike's mini-games are completed using the microphone on the DS, Jimmy T .' s mini-games include rubbing the screen, Kat and Ana are solved by drawing, and so forth.

It has three ( or, more rarely, four ) strings and is played upright, with the horsetail-strung bow rubbing against the strings.

In China, for example, a similar expression of affection consists of rubbing one's nose against the cheek of another person.

The hand drill is a similar method, but uses a longer, thinner spindle ; and instead of a bearing block and bow combination, the downward pressure and spinning is achieved by rubbing the hands together around the spindle.

Brass rubbings are created by laying a sheet of paper on top of a brass ( actually called " latten "-an alloy of brass and nickel ) and rubbing the paper with graphite, wax, or chalk, a process similar to rubbing a pencil over a piece of paper placed on top of a coin.

The paranoiac-critical arose from similar Surrealistic experiments with psychology and the creation of images such as Max Ernst ’ s frottage technique, which involved rubbing pencil or chalk on paper over a textured surface and interpreting the phantom images visible in the texture on the paper.

The motion needed to power a friction whirligig is very similar to rubbing sticks together to create fire.

The skin of high-speed jet aircraft can also become hot, but this is from frictional heating due to atmospheric friction, similar to warming your hands by rubbing them together.

: " one who uses a güira ," a short, thick pole that is played as an instrument by rubbing it with a stick )— used as an insult, similar to " huevón.

Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.

Bolden's " Funky Butt " was, as Danny Barker once put it, a reference to the olfactory effect of an auditorium packed full of sweaty people " dancing close together and belly rubbing.

One of those test methods consisted of rubbing part of the internal organs of the deceased, dissolved in oil, on the shaved skin of a rabbit ; the absorption of the cantharides and its blistering effect are such that they became visible on the skin of the rabbit.

** The triboelectric effect, e. g. from shoes rubbing carpet

The triboelectric effect is the main cause of static electricity as observed in everyday life, and in common high-school science demonstrations involving rubbing different materials together ( e. g., fur against an acrylic rod ).

First, the dielectric plate is charged through the triboelectric effect by rubbing it with fur or cloth.

This so-called " tribo " or " rubbing " effect is not well understood.

In clothing, static cling occurs from static electricity, which is usually due to rubbing as in a clothes dryer ( the triboelectric effect ).

The song is widely known for its popular guitar solo containing a vinyl scratch effect used by Tom Morello, done by toggling between two pickups-one on and one off-while rubbing his hands on the strings over the pickups and using a wah-pedal to create the effect that someone is scratching a vinyl disc.

These incidents merely resulted in a jarring " bump " sound effect and an animation of the character crouching and rubbing their head, as if recovering from a nasty knock, rather than any gruesome or graphic injury.