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Paul Keating
October 8th, 2014, 05:18 PM
I choose two of the several offered paregorics: 9 & 16.

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Judy Madnick
October 8th, 2014, 05:40 PM
Let's see: How about these --

8. a Middle Eastern dessert made with honey, rosewater, and pistachios.

and

12. a pudding-like dessert of obscure Near Eastern origin, containing figs, nuts, and currants.

because they sound yummy!

Judy Madnick

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."


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Paul Keating
October 8th, 2014, 05:56 PM
Those were two of the paregorics I avoided!

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endash@verizon.net
October 9th, 2014, 09:36 AM
I vote for numbers 9 and 15.  -- Dick Weltz
 




 



 





On 10/08/14, Tim Lodge<5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

 





Here we have 16 defs of the word SYRMAEA.  All bar one are the product of your fevered imaginations, and the exception came from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline which is:

          09:00 BST on Friday 10th October in my time zone, which is:
          08:00 UTC
          10:00 CET
           4:00 AM EDT
           1:00 AM PDT
          19:00 AEST in Melbourne
          21:00 NZDT in New Zealand

--  Tim L

*** SYRMAEA ***



1.            flesh-eating marsupial.



 



 2.           apolitical no man's land.



 



 3..           avariety of Arctic bramble.



 



 4.           acontinuous state of confusion.



 



 5.           amucous secretion, particularly in the digestive tract.



 



 6.           atemporary island when a body of water is at a low level.



 



 7.           analginate extracted from kelp, used industrially as an emulsifier.



 



 8.           aMiddle Eastern dessert made with honey, rosewater, and pistachios.



 







 9.           _Antiq._a cathartic said to have been used in some Egyptian forms of embalming.



 



10.          a black Middle Eastern tea, originallya choice grade but later an inferior variety.



 



11.          ground that is impassable due to snow;_poet._ a winter landscape [Gk. _syrmas_ snowdrift]



 



12.          a pudding-like dessert of obscure NearEastern origin, containing figs, nuts, and currants.



 



13.          in some marsupials, a pair ofcoiled tubules in which fertilised eggs may be carried andstored.



 



14.          a mystical state of enlightenmentsought by the Mevlevi order of the Sufis (commonly called whirling dervishes).



 



15.          a hardy shrub having bright yellowflowers that are attractive to insects, related to the Buddleia or ButterflyBush.



 



16.          a legendary plant to which variousmedicinal or magical properties have been attributed, sometimes identified asthe lily.

 





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