[Dixonary] Round 2605: LYNCURY [Definitions]

[Paul Keating]

Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the seventeen
definitions for LYNCURY presented alphabetically below for your edification
and entertainment. The remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.

Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values) of
“good” that you think appropriate (such as plausible, politically correct,
embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a random number
generator). You can do this whether or not you have submitted a definition,
and whether or not you have played before. You’re not allowed to vote if
you know the right answer.

Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on Tuesday
5 May 2015 at

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22:30 PDT
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23:30 MDT

and on Wednesday 6 May 2015 at

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00:30 CDT
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01:30 EDT
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05:30 UTC
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06:30 BST
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07:30 CEST for me
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15:30 EST in Melbourne, and
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17:30 NZST in New Zealand.

1. The agitated honking of geese when defending territory.

2. An amalgam of gum arabic and animal fat used in the making of vellum.

3. A circular painting or relief carving.

4. The crime of claiming adjoining land as one’s own, e.g., by
surreptitiously moving boundary markers.

5. N Amer. A folk medicine made from the fat of the lynx.

6. Obs. Linen.

7. The loading tray for charging Linotype™ typesetting machines with metal
type. Also lincury.

8. A long, narrow surgical knife for minor incisions.

9. *Obs.* Lycanthropy.

10. A minor breach of etiquette or decorum; a peccadillo.

11. The practice of disinheriting female offspring.

12. Some precious stone.

13. A primitive torch.

14. A rare fox species.

15. Scots Law. The right of a tenant to dig peat on parts of the landlord’s
land not rented by the tenant.

16. A silk-lined ecclesiastical robe worn by clergy of the Eastern Orthodox
Church.

17. Untanned leather with a rough granular surface, prepared from the skin
of the horse, ass, etc., or of the shark, seal, etc. Also, an imitation of
this.

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[JohnB]

I shall go for the the disinherited daughters who do not receive the
delightfully ill-defined precious stone

#11 and #12 please

*JohnnyB

*

11. The practice of disinheriting female offspring.

12. Some precious stone.


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[Judy Madnick]

2. An amalgam of gum arabic and animal fat used in the making of vellum.
5. N Amer. A folk medicine made from the fat of the lynx.

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

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[Dave Cunningham]

OK -- I usually am the one giving the def with "some" in it so if someone
else did it, they fooled me. so 11 and 12 today.


Dave


On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 12:30:32 PM UTC-4, Paul Keating wrote:

> Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the seventeen
> definitions for LYNCURY presented alphabetically below for your edification
> and entertainment. The remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
>
> Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values) of
> “good” that you think appropriate (such as plausible, politically
> correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a random
> number generator). You can do this whether or not you have submitted a
> definition, and whether or not you have played before. You’re not allowed
> to vote if you know the right answer.
>
> Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on Tuesday
> 5 May 2015 at
>
> -
>
> 22:30 PDT
> -
>
> 23:30 MDT
>
> and on Wednesday 6 May 2015 at
>
> -
>
> 00:30 CDT
> -
>
> 01:30 EDT
> -
>
> 05:30 UTC
> -
>
> 06:30 BST
> -
>
> 07:30 CEST for me
> -
>
> 15:30 EST in Melbourne, and
> -
>
> 17:30 NZST in New Zealand.
>
> 1. The agitated honking of geese when defending territory.
>
> 2. An amalgam of gum arabic and animal fat used in the making of vellum.
>
> 3. A circular painting or relief carving.
>
> 4. The crime of claiming adjoining land as one’s own, e.g., by
> surreptitiously moving boundary markers.
>
> 5. N Amer. A folk medicine made from the fat of the lynx.
>
> 6. Obs. Linen.
>
> 7. The loading tray for charging Linotype™ typesetting machines with metal
> type. Also lincury.
>
> 8. A long, narrow surgical knife for minor incisions.
>
> 9. *Obs.* Lycanthropy.
>
> 10. A minor breach of etiquette or decorum; a peccadillo.
>
> 11. The practice of disinheriting female offspring.
>
> 12. Some precious stone.
>
> 13. A primitive torch.
>
> 14. A rare fox species.
>
> 15. Scots Law. The right of a tenant to dig peat on parts of the
> landlord’s land not rented by the tenant.
>
> 16. A silk-lined ecclesiastical robe worn by clergy of the Eastern
> Orthodox Church.
>
> 17. Untanned leather with a rough granular surface, prepared from the skin
> of the horse, ass, etc., or of the shark, seal, etc. Also, an imitation of
> this.
>

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[Tim Lodge]

We get a lot of def 1 at the bottom of my garden, and I often wish I had a
def 8 to chase them off with, so 1 and 8, please

1. The agitated honking of geese when defending territory.

8. A long, narrow surgical knife for minor incisions.

-- Tim L

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[Shani Naylor]

I'll go for the legal options:

4. The crime of claiming adjoining land as one’s own, e.g., by
surreptitiously moving boundary markers.
15. Scots Law. The right of a tenant to dig peat on parts of the landlord’s
land not rented by the tenant.

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Paul Keating <define.lyncury (AT) boargules (DOT) com>
wrote:

> Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the seventeen
> definitions for LYNCURY presented alphabetically below for your edification
> and entertainment. The remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
>
> Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values) of
> “good” that you think appropriate (such as plausible, politically
> correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a random
> number generator). You can do this whether or not you have submitted a
> definition, and whether or not you have played before. You’re not allowed
> to vote if you know the right answer.
>
> Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on Tuesday
> 5 May 2015 at
>
> -
>
> 22:30 PDT
> -
>
> 23:30 MDT
>
> and on Wednesday 6 May 2015 at
>
> -
>
> 00:30 CDT
> -
>
> 01:30 EDT
> -
>
> 05:30 UTC
> -
>
> 06:30 BST
> -
>
> 07:30 CEST for me
> -
>
> 15:30 EST in Melbourne, and
> -
>
> 17:30 NZST in New Zealand.
>
> 1. The agitated honking of geese when defending territory.
>
> 2. An amalgam of gum arabic and animal fat used in the making of vellum.
>
> 3. A circular painting or relief carving.
>
> 4. The crime of claiming adjoining land as one’s own, e.g., by
> surreptitiously moving boundary markers.
>
> 5. N Amer. A folk medicine made from the fat of the lynx.
>
> 6. Obs. Linen.
>
> 7. The loading tray for charging Linotype™ typesetting machines with metal
> type. Also lincury.
>
> 8. A long, narrow surgical knife for minor incisions.
>
> 9. *Obs.* Lycanthropy.
>
> 10. A minor breach of etiquette or decorum; a peccadillo.
>
> 11. The practice of disinheriting female offspring.
>
> 12. Some precious stone.
>
> 13. A primitive torch.
>
> 14. A rare fox species.
>
> 15. Scots Law. The right of a tenant to dig peat on parts of the
> landlord’s land not rented by the tenant.
>
> 16. A silk-lined ecclesiastical robe worn by clergy of the Eastern
> Orthodox Church.
>
> 17. Untanned leather with a rough granular surface, prepared from the skin
> of the horse, ass, etc., or of the shark, seal, etc. Also, an imitation of
> this.
>
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[—Keith Hale—]

I will disinherit my daughters for completely forgetting to tan the
leather. 11 & 17, pliz.

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[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 3 and 7.
Guerri

On 5/4/2015 12:30 PM, Paul Keating wrote:
> 3. A circular painting or relief carving.

> 7. The loading tray for charging Linotype™ typesetting machines with
> metal type. Also lincury.

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[Steve Graham]

16 and 17 please



Steve Graham



16. A silk-lined ecclesiastical robe worn by clergy of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

17. Untanned leather with a rough granular surface, prepared from the skin of the horse, ass, etc., or of the shark, seal, etc. Also, an imitation of this.

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[Jim Hart]

I'll take vellum goo and the obscene linen for half a crown - 2 and 6

Jim


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[endash@verizon.net]

I will guess at numbers 2 and 15. &nbsp;&nbsp; -- Dick Weltz
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On 05/04/15, Paul Keating

[Daniel Widdis]

I don't believe any of them.

It sounds like it's describing an action of some type, though, so I'll
go with 10 and 11.

On 5/4/15 9:30 AM, Paul Keating wrote:
>
> 10. A minor breach of etiquette or decorum; a peccadillo.
>
> 11. The practice of disinheriting female offspring.
>
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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I"ll go for 1 and 12.

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[Efrem Mallach]

10 and 15, please. Why? Well, why not?

Efrem

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On May 4, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Paul Keating <define.lyncury (AT) boargules (DOT) com> wrote:

>

> Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the seventeen definitions for LYNCURY presented alphabetically below for your edification and entertainment. The remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
> Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values) of “good” that you think appropriate (such as plausible, politically correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a random number generator). You can do this whether or not you have submitted a definition, and whether or not you have played before. You’re not allowed to vote if you know the right answer.
> Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on Tuesday 5 May 2015 at
> 22:30 PDT
> 23:30 MDT
> and on Wednesday 6 May 2015 at
> 00:30 CDT
> 01:30 EDT
> 05:30 UTC
> 06:30 BST
> 07:30 CEST for me
> 15:30 EST in Melbourne, and
> 17:30 NZST in New Zealand.
>
> 10. A minor breach of etiquette or decorum; a peccadillo.
>
> 15. Scots Law. The right of a tenant to dig peat on parts of the landlord’s land not rented by the tenant.

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[Dodi Schultz]

Since I didn't get around to submitting a def, I can't readily eliminate
any of the seventeen.

I'll try 8 and 11.

—Dodi


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[Paul Keating]

Errm, Jim,

Recalling in public that 2s. 6d. is half a crown dates you rather. It’s like saying I love it when a plan comes together. Only worse, of course.

For the cousins, and the children: Two shillings and sixpence is old money for ⅛ of a pound. Since 1971 it has been spelt and pronounced 12½p, but before that, in informal contexts, is was spelt 2/6 and pronounced two and six. There was a coin in that denomination, called half a crown. In response to the obvious question, no crown (5/-, £¼) coins were minted in the 20th century, except for collectors’ proofs. I’ve never seen one.


I'll take vellum goo and the obscene linen for half a crown - 2 and 6

Jim

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[JohnB]

The wiki article (uk coinage) is interesting - I looked it up for I have
seen crowns as a youngster - and as spendable coinage, not just mementos

/There was also the Crown (5/-), which was (and still is) legal tender
but only minted on special occasions and not normally circulated/.
...
/There are also commemorative issues of crowns. Before 1990 these had a
face value of twenty-five pence (25p), equivalent to the five shilling
crown used in pre-decimal Britain. However, in 1990 crowns were
redenominated with a face value of //five
pounds//(£5)//^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_pound_sterling#cite_note-15>
//as the previous value was considered not sufficient for such a
high-status coin. The size and weight of the coin remained exactly the
same. Decimal crowns are generally not found in circulation as their
market value is likely to be higher than their face value, but they
remain legal tender.//
/...
/The last five shilling piece was minted in 1965/

The half crown was also called "half a dollar" (which reflects the "good
old days" when there were 4 American dollars to the pound sterling - ie
a crown was a "dollar")


*JohnnyB*

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[Jim Hart]

Paul,

> Recalling in public that 2*s.* 6*d.* is half a crown dates you rather.

I suspect that the majority of this august group are at least as dated and
at least as widely read. In my part of the colonies even before we
dispensed with pounds (in 1966) we never had crowns or half-crowns but I
still knew what they were. Ditto sovereigns and farthings for that matter.
Equally I knew from an early age what nickels and dimes were.

> It’s like saying *I love it when a plan comes together.* Only worse, of
course.

Sorry, you've lost me there, both for the saying and for the worseness.

Jim



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