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Guerri Stevens
September 12th, 2005, 08:50 PM
Thanks to you all for your interesting definitions!

The next dealer is Paul Keating who has 5 unnatural points. The real
winners are Tim Lodge and Hugo Kornelis, with 4 natural points each.

1: A merry clown.
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Rosemary Allen, Tony Abell
FROM Dodi Schultz who voted 6 and 19, and scores 3 + 0 = 3

2: [AS] A farrier
Voted for by nobody
FROM Dave Cunningham who voted 1 and 3, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

3: A steward or butler.
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Tim Bourne, Scott Crom, Mike Shefler
FROM Tim Lodge who didn't vote, and scores 4 + 0 = 4

4: An ornamental container.
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Hugo Kornelis
FROM Christopher Carson who voted 14 and 19, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

5: Agreements (Ozark slang)
Voted for by nobody
FROM Wayne Scott who didn't vote, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

6: A stableboy of ancient Greece.
Voted for by: Nancy Shepherdson, Dodi Schultz
FROM Toni Savage who voted 15 and 21, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

7: Space between corbels in a parapet.
Voted for by: Hugo Kornelis
FROM Judy Madnick who voted 4 and 16, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

8: An inhabitant of Heriotshire in the UK
Voted for by nobody
FROM Rosemary Allen who voted 1 and 15, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

9: Any of various European orchids [Obs.]
Voted for by: Bill Hirst
FROM Russ Heimerson who didn't vote, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

10: The Sumerian goddess of rain and water.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Bill Hirst who voted 9 and *20*, and scores 0 + 2 = 2*

11: Something inherited, or received by bequest.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Scott Crom who voted 3 and 19, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

12: The notch on an arrow that takes the bowstring
Voted for by: Dan Widdis
FROM Tim Bourne who voted 3 and 13, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

13: A tax paid in lieu of military service in feudal times.
Voted for by: Tim Bourne, Nancy Shepherdson, Dan Widdis, Paul Keating
FROM Hugo Kornelis who voted 4 and 7, and scores 4 + 0 = 4

14: A mountain meadow or pasture [NF _heriault_ goat-pasture]
Voted for by: Tony Abell, Christopher Carson, Mike Shefler
FROM Paul Keating who voted 13 and *20*, and scores 3 + 2 = 5*

15: Also heritor or heriter - an inheritor [legal term derived from
norman-french]
Voted for by: Toni Savage, Rosemary Allen
FROM John Barrs who DQ'ed, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

16: A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages
in church music.
Voted for by: Judy Madnick
FROM Barbara Kryvko who voted 17 and 18, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

17: A member of the class of vassals who were attached to military lands
in Roman Britain.
Voted for by: Barbara Kryvko
FROM Nancy Shepherdson who voted 6 and 13, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

18: A small relative of the ground hog most commonly found in burrows at
the base of hedge rows.
Voted for by: Barbara Kryvko
FROM Don Jordan who didn't vote, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

19: A pleated frill of cloth or lace attached down the center front of a
woman's blouse or dress.
Voted for by: Christopher Carson, Scott Crom, Dodi Schultz
FROM Tony Abell who voted 1 and 14, and scores 3 + 0 = 3

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.
Voted for by: Bill Hirst, Paul Keating
FROM The New Oxford American Dictionary which can't vote, and scores D2

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.
Voted for by: Toni Savage
FROM Dan Widdis who voted 12 and 13, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

No def
FROM Mike Shefler who voted 3 and 14, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

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Guerri


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