Guerri Stevens
September 11th, 2005, 09:39 AM
Here are 21 interesting definitions for HERIOT. Please vote for TWO
definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before
the deadline: 8:30 p.m. EDT, Monday, September 12.
New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are in
the files area of the Coryphaeus Yahoo group.
1: A merry clown.
2: [AS] A farrier
3: A steward or butler.
4: An ornamental container.
5: Agreements (Ozark slang)
6: A stableboy of ancient Greece.
7: Space between corbels in a parapet.
8: An inhabitant of Heriotshire in the UK
9: Any of various European orchids [Obs.]
10: The Sumerian goddess of rain and water.
11: Something inherited, or received by bequest.
12: The notch on an arrow that takes the bowstring
13: A tax paid in lieu of military service in feudal times.
14: A mountain meadow or pasture [NF _heriault_ goat-pasture]
15: Also heritor or heriter - an inheritor [legal term derived from
norman-french]
16: A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages
in church music.
17: A member of the class of vassals who were attached to military lands
in Roman Britain.
18: A small relative of the ground hog most commonly found in burrows at
the base of hedge rows.
19: A pleated frill of cloth or lace attached down the center front of a
woman's blouse or dress.
20: [Brit. Historical] A tribute paid to a lord out of the belongings of
a tenant who died, often consisting of a live animal or military
equipment that he had been lent during his lifetime.
21: The curve traced out by points P and P' which lie on lines through a
fixed point A where the midpoint M of PP' is on a fixed line and the
absolute value |PM| = the absolute value |P'M| = the absolute value
|MO|, where O is the projection of A onto that fixed line.
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Guerri
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definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before
the deadline: 8:30 p.m. EDT, Monday, September 12.
New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are in
the files area of the Coryphaeus Yahoo group.
1: A merry clown.
2: [AS] A farrier
3: A steward or butler.
4: An ornamental container.
5: Agreements (Ozark slang)
6: A stableboy of ancient Greece.
7: Space between corbels in a parapet.
8: An inhabitant of Heriotshire in the UK
9: Any of various European orchids [Obs.]
10: The Sumerian goddess of rain and water.
11: Something inherited, or received by bequest.
12: The notch on an arrow that takes the bowstring
13: A tax paid in lieu of military service in feudal times.
14: A mountain meadow or pasture [NF _heriault_ goat-pasture]
15: Also heritor or heriter - an inheritor [legal term derived from
norman-french]
16: A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages
in church music.
17: A member of the class of vassals who were attached to military lands
in Roman Britain.
18: A small relative of the ground hog most commonly found in burrows at
the base of hedge rows.
19: A pleated frill of cloth or lace attached down the center front of a
woman's blouse or dress.
20: [Brit. Historical] A tribute paid to a lord out of the belongings of
a tenant who died, often consisting of a live animal or military
equipment that he had been lent during his lifetime.
21: The curve traced out by points P and P' which lie on lines through a
fixed point A where the midpoint M of PP' is on a fixed line and the
absolute value |PM| = the absolute value |P'M| = the absolute value
|MO|, where O is the projection of A onto that fixed line.
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Guerri
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