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Tim Lodge
December 19th, 2005, 10:40 AM
I'm now back on a fairly reliable Internet connection. Here are 21
defs of the word HELLANODIC, only one of which I found in a
dictionary. I had to make some fairly tough decisions about whether
to combine defs - I'll leave you to guess what I decided!

Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to
this one), before the deadline of:

11:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday 21st December, which is
6:00 AM EST and
3:00 AM PST, all on the same day.

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 at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/coryphaeus/files/Game%
20Rules%20and%20Advice%20for%20Players/

Have fun

Tim L


1: Macedonian.

2: muddled or mixed-up.

3: poetry in a Greek style.

4: a judge or umpire in games or combats.

5: [Math.] a curve that bends back on itself.

6: an area of wasteland surrounding a prison.

7: (adj.) done in the style of the ancient Greeks.

8: trumpet shaped, violet flowers growing in racemes.

9: of or pertaining to classic Greece and its culture.

10: pertaining to an early 4-verse, 36-line form of poetry.

11: in the style of the architecture of ancient Greece; archaic.

12: (Architecture) having a volute on a Corinthian or Ionic capital.

13: of or related to any of the three main forms of Greek
architecture.

14: pertaining to the motion of liquid in confined spaces, such as
pipes and drains.

15: in the form or style of the Greek poets of the 5th and 6th cent.
BC, esp Pindar, Anacreon, etc.

16: any of several verse forms built around a central choriamb, used
especially by Sappho, Alcaeus, and their imitators.

17: a somewhat preserving variation on standard probabiliy calculus,
used by actuaries for competitive life insurancies.

18: comparison between the horoscopes of two or more people in order
to determine their likely compatibility and relationship.

19: a condition in which a person stops breathing for a short period
of time while sleeping. More commonly known as sleep apnea.

20: the itinerary of the weekly boat that supplies the smaller
inhabited islands in the Greek archipelago.[_hellas_=
Greece+_'odos_=way]

21: a yellow crystalline water-soluble poisonous solid, obtained
from the rhizome of certain hellabores, and used in medicine chiefly
as a heart stimulant.





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Hugo Kornelis
December 19th, 2005, 12:58 PM
Hi Tim,

I'll save everybody else the trouble and make the obvious comment about it
all being Greek to me right away.

And I'll avoid all the Greek defs. Lemme see what that leaves me. Hmmmmm.

Okay, I'll settle for

14: pertaining to the motion of liquid in confined spaces, such as
pipes and drains.

21: a yellow crystalline water-soluble poisonous solid, obtained
from the rhizome of certain hellabores, and used in medicine chiefly
as a heart stimulant.

BTW, next time please incllude the real def too, will you?

Best, Hugo




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bonnyjars
December 19th, 2005, 03:36 PM
Tim

Too many greeks for me, yet it probably is, so I'll go for the ones that are greek by association rather than definition so the
umpire and the curve

#4 and #5 please

JohnnyB





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Dave Cunningham
December 19th, 2005, 05:35 PM
Using the old system of excluding anything remotely Greek leaves only 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21.

I will sorta rule out 5, 6, 10, 18, 19 and 21. Leaving 2, 4, 8 and 17 ...

17 has a tyopo -- so gets one vote ... and I'll take the noun, 4, for the second. But it sure could be 2 or 17 ...

Dave

Guerri Stevens
December 19th, 2005, 05:57 PM
I vote for 5 and 14.

Guerri



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Daniel B. Widdis
December 19th, 2005, 06:20 PM
All of them look plausible except 8 and 18.

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Dan



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Larry Halman
December 19th, 2005, 11:38 PM
#2 & #8


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Tim Bourne
December 20th, 2005, 03:04 AM
It's all Greek to me, so I'll try two that aren't: 2 and
14, please.

Tim B





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Christopher Carson
December 20th, 2005, 05:19 AM
My first inclination was to elimnate the Greeks but then I decided that our Dealah may be trying a sneaky double bluff so I'll toss my votes to numbers 2 and 20 since after reading all of these I'm definitely mixed up and muddled and 20 sounds contrived.

Chris


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mshefler
December 20th, 2005, 12:07 PM
I'll avoid Greeks and go for the less obvious 6 and 18

Chuck Emery
December 20th, 2005, 12:27 PM
Tim -

A nice selection. I'll try -

10: pertaining to an early 4-verse, 36-line form of poetry.

and

15: in the form or style of the Greek poets of the 5th and 6th cent. BC, esp
Pindar, Anacreon, etc.

Thanks,

Chuck



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Tony Abell
December 20th, 2005, 04:16 PM
The natural tendency in these situations is to beware of Greek-bearing
defs. That doesn't leave much choice, so I'll follow the crowd and
vote for the very popular 8 and 18.




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Russ Heimerson
December 20th, 2005, 09:29 PM
I'm going to avoid anything obviously Greek, and go for # 4 and # 8, please.

Russ


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