Word Finder - bonnet

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A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.

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A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.

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(by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.

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The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car; a hood.

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A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.

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An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid.

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The second stomach of a ruminant.

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Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.

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To put a bonnet on.

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To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.

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To pull the bonnet or cap down over the head of.

Like asking a car mechanic to work on the car without lifting the bonnet!

Close cousin to the scotch bonnet, they come in all colors.

The blue bonnet was another traditional Scottish item of clothing.

Tournai carries on a large trade in carpets (called Brussels), bonnet shapes, corsets and fancy goods generally.

Ollie was sitting on his car bonnet swaying to the beat - a true party cat.

Distinctive bonnet bulges are necessary to cover the tall C-series engine.

Under the bonnet & other performance accessories Of course not all bolt-on goodies were there to make the motorist more comfy.

Jools wore full, formal academic dress in silk damask with an academic bonnet.

Charles Fripp left the protective transporting eiderdown under the bonnet (to accelerate warming up he says ).

You play, Jacob, like a bonnet laird, or a sailor in a tavern.

A Golf with deeper flanks, a steeper bonnet pulled up by the windscreen pillars.

He wore a formal gown of blue and gold damask silk and a Tudor-style academic bonnet in gold silk.

At 12.30pm, after the Easter Bonnet Parade, the High Bailiff will unveil a large piece of dressed stonework at the Heritage Center.

Under the bonnet, the GTC concept has GM's 1.9-litre turbo diesel unit, and uses two turbochargers rather than the usual one.

Powder coated red - chromed windshield, hubcaps, steering wheel and bell bonnet ornament - wooden ladders & real flashing red light.

Features include black padded seat, chrome steering wheel, chrome windshield, chrome bonnet ornament and chrome portholes.

Charles Bonnet met the difficulty of the origin of conscious beings much in the same way as Leibnitz, by the supposition of eternal minute organic bodies to which are attached immortal souls.

But the effect of the adoption of these conclusions has been rather to substitute a new metaphor for that of Bonnet than to abolish the conception expressed by it.

Nicholas immediately recognized Princess Mary not so much by the profile he saw under her bonnet as by the feeling of solicitude, timidity, and pity that immediately overcame him.

The heater air intake is above the bonnet on the 200 series, but behind the radiator grille on the 400 series.

Prince Charles acted the servant very well, sitting at a respectful distance, with his bonnet off.

Guards, bonnet top and top scuttle panel are steel as Mike had informed me over the ' phone.

This windscreen plunges down to the bonnet meeting the wide grille with the Citroen emblem firmly embalmed which those lovely teardrop light clusters flank.

I believe that the new capital framework must be given time to bed down before we start tinkering about under the bonnet again.

A bonnet made of French silk with ruffled tiers and silk embroidery is made for a larger size doll.

A French mop bonnet made with delicate layers of lace and a beautiful silk ribbon would look beautiful on a French Bebe or a large size Jumeau doll.

Supported by the great authority of Haller, the doctrine of evolution, or development, prevailed throughout the whole of the 18th century, and Cuvier appears to have substantially adopted Bonnet's later views, though probably he would not have gone all lengths in the direction of " emboitement."

Bonnet's eminent contemporary, Buffon, held nearly the same views with respect to the nature of the germ, and expresses them even more confidently.

The " moule interieur " of Buffon is the aggregate of elementary parts which constitute the individual, and is thus the equivalent of Bonnet's germ, as defined in the passage cited above.

Buffon's opinion is, in fact, a sort of combination of views, essentially similar to those of Bonnet, with others, somewhat similar to those of the " Medici " whom Harvey condemns.

Jean Baptiste Rene Robinet' followed out much the same line of thought as De Maillet, but less soberly; and Bonnet's speculations in the Palingenesie, which appeared in 1769, have already been mentioned.

Apokryphen, in loc. The best texts are given in Bonnet's Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, 1898, II.

In 1850 a half-pay officer, named Pate, assaulted the queen by striking her with a stick, and crushing her bonnet.

Charles Bonnet was both a scientific man and a philosopher, while Amiel belonged to the latter class only.

The bulbous headlamps and over-large bonnet air scoop put many customers off and sales fell by 30% .

You could be fooled into thinking there was a normally aspirated 2 liter engine under the bonnet.

Similarly, the New York Iroquois added elaborate beadwork to produce a modified Highland Glengarry bonnet.

Sir Edward wore a formal gown of blue and gold damask silk and a Tudor-style academic bonnet in gold silk.

I am much indebted to you, sir, for a scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity.

I'm well-known in these parts. ' The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.

At the end of the century the waistline rose and the poke bonnet evolved.

He ran a dummy generator with just a pulley to save weight as well as a one-piece aluminum bonnet and cycle front wings.

Both rear quarters damaged, with damage also to the nearside wing, front bumper, and a well creased bonnet.

The two parts of Bonnet's hypothesis, namely, the doctrine that all living things proceed from pre-existing germs, and that these contain, one enclosed within the other, the germs of all future living things, which is the hypothesis of " emboitement," and the doctrine that every germ contains in miniature all the organs of the adult, which is the hypothesis of evolution or development, in the primary senses of these words, must be carefully distinguished.

The school of Cuvier was lamentably deficient in embryologists; and it was only in the course of the first thirty years of the igth century that Prevost and Dumas in France, and, later on, Ddllinger, Pander, von Bar, Rathke, and Remak in Germany, founded modern embryology; and, at the same time, proved the utter incompatibility of the hypothesis of evolution as formulated by Bonnet and Haller with easily demonstrable facts.

The accurate investigation of the lowest forms of animal life, commenced by Leeuwenhoek and Swammerdam, and continued by the remarkable labours of Reaumur, Abraham Trembley, Bonnet, and a host of other observers in the latter part of the 17th and the first half of the 18th centuries, drew the attention of biologists to the gradation in the complexity of organization which is presented by living beings, and culminated in the doctrine of the echelle des titres, so powerfully and clearly stated by Bonnet, and, before him, adumbrated by Locke and by Leibnitz.

Fun foot to floor ride-on tractor with bonnet that opens.

Under the bonnet, the GTC concept has GM 's 1.9-litre turbo diesel unit, and uses two turbochargers rather than the usual one.

The underside of the bonnet can also be treated.

The biggest appeal of the clamshell model will be the 4-inch widescreen TFT display that supports 16 million colors hidden under the bonnet.