[Dixonary] Round 1643 HERIOT Definitions

[Dodi Schultz]

#6 and #19?

--Dodi


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[Judy Madnick]

Okay, I've narrowed it down . . . to six. LOL!

Let's see. How about

<< 4: An ornamental container

and

<< 16: A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages
<< in church music.

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY


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[Toni Savage]

15 and 21 please

Toni

--- Guerri Stevens <guerri (AT) tapcis (DOT) com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Guerri
>


-- Toni Savage


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[Judy Madnick]

Michael Moore sure knows how to tell it, doesn't he? <G>

Judy


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