Tony Abell
November 11th, 2005, 09:14 AM
Here are 19 remarkably unlikely definitions of NEPER, including one
from a reputable dictionary. Please vote for two by way of a public
response to this message. You may vote even if you did not submit a
definition (see da rules). If you informed me of your likely DQ
status, please refrain from voting if one of the definitions matches
(more or less) what you thought NEPER really meant. As always, any
errors are the fault of the dealer.
The deadline for voting shall be:
11:00 PM EST Saturday, 12-Nov-2005
8:00 PM PST Saturday, 12-Nov-2005
0400 UTC, Sunday 13-Nov-2005
1. [Colloq. Brit. Dial.] A smallish fellow.
2. An agricultural tool, for reaping.
3. A drink made from the root of the cypress tree [India].
4. A woman's short cloak, popular in the 17th century.
5. A kind of broadloom.
6. [Scots] A tot; a boy; see also 'nipper' and 'nevvy'.
7. A member of an Australian aboriginal tribe which is strictly vegetarian.
8. [Esper.] unequalled; peerless.
9. A person who is chronically late (Scots.)
10. A small Egyptian bird with brown plumage and a yellow stripe over each eye.
Similar to a wren.
11. An entrance gate to a garden.
12. The decimal part of a number; the mantissa. (alt. from mathematician John
Napier)
13. A groundcover vine with small blue flowers.
14. A chronic drinker.
15. Canopy over a bed, pulpit or altar.
16. A cloth filter used when decanting communion wine.
17. Unit for expressing the ratio of two currents or voltages.
18. A young fish, esp. a young salmon or trout.
19. To babble.
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from a reputable dictionary. Please vote for two by way of a public
response to this message. You may vote even if you did not submit a
definition (see da rules). If you informed me of your likely DQ
status, please refrain from voting if one of the definitions matches
(more or less) what you thought NEPER really meant. As always, any
errors are the fault of the dealer.
The deadline for voting shall be:
11:00 PM EST Saturday, 12-Nov-2005
8:00 PM PST Saturday, 12-Nov-2005
0400 UTC, Sunday 13-Nov-2005
1. [Colloq. Brit. Dial.] A smallish fellow.
2. An agricultural tool, for reaping.
3. A drink made from the root of the cypress tree [India].
4. A woman's short cloak, popular in the 17th century.
5. A kind of broadloom.
6. [Scots] A tot; a boy; see also 'nipper' and 'nevvy'.
7. A member of an Australian aboriginal tribe which is strictly vegetarian.
8. [Esper.] unequalled; peerless.
9. A person who is chronically late (Scots.)
10. A small Egyptian bird with brown plumage and a yellow stripe over each eye.
Similar to a wren.
11. An entrance gate to a garden.
12. The decimal part of a number; the mantissa. (alt. from mathematician John
Napier)
13. A groundcover vine with small blue flowers.
14. A chronic drinker.
15. Canopy over a bed, pulpit or altar.
16. A cloth filter used when decanting communion wine.
17. Unit for expressing the ratio of two currents or voltages.
18. A young fish, esp. a young salmon or trout.
19. To babble.
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