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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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Bill Hirst
September 11th, 2005, 09:54 AM
I definitely think it's a card in the Tarot deck, but the dealer failed to include it.

Oh well, I'll vote for 9 and 20.

Dave Cunningham
September 11th, 2005, 10:54 AM
1 and 3 just because.

Dave

mshefler
September 11th, 2005, 01:24 PM
I'll fall for 3 and 14.

Tim Bourne
September 11th, 2005, 02:13 PM
3 and 13, please.

Tim B





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Barbara Kryvko
September 11th, 2005, 02:20 PM
17 and 18


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Kiwiro
September 11th, 2005, 02:48 PM
1 and 15 please

Hugo Kornelis
September 11th, 2005, 03:03 PM
Hi Guerri,

Oooh, what a great colection. Too bad I can only pick two...

My first choice is

4: An ornamental container.

because I believe it might be the correct def.

And my second choice is

7: Space between corbels in a parapet.

for the mere fact that this def uses two unknonw (to me, at least) words, in
an attempt to clarify one.

Best, Hugo




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Paul Keating
September 11th, 2005, 04:22 PM
I reckon it's OE. I'll take the tax (13) and the tribute (20).

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Daniel B. Widdis
September 11th, 2005, 05:27 PM
12 and 13 please.

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Christopher Carson
September 12th, 2005, 11:58 AM
I'll go for 14 and 19 this time.

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Tony Abell
September 12th, 2005, 12:10 PM
Having no better ideas, I shall reward the authors of 1 and 14.




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