nancyshepherdson
July 3rd, 2006, 03:57 PM
Hi all –
Here's the list of clever defs for oreortyx, none of which involves
cookies. Seventeen are from your clever minds; one is from the
dictionary.
Please vote for two of your choosing, without looking the word up
first. Because I am a little late posting, I'll have to be a little
early in closing the vote. So please submit your votes by:
Midnight Tuesday July 4 EDT, 11 p.m. Central.
That will give us revolutionaries time to view fireworks and stagger
home before the deadline. Those of you in other parts of the world,
for whom the 4th is just a workday, will have to enjoy our day with
us vicariously. Think of me marching in a silly, hot parade (for a
political candidate) first thing in the morning and have pity!
Anyway, enough holiday bloviating. Here are the defs for your
voting pleasure…
Nancy
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1. A creature of Greek mythology having the head and tail of a cat
and the body of a woman.
2. A small vestibule adjoining the narthex of an Orthodox church,
where the vestments are traditionally stored.
3. A gigantic primitive fern, reaching fifty feet or more in height.
4. A brain disease suffered by sheep
5. The horned screamer, a S. American bird.
6. Mountain quail of western United States
7. Return of a wanderer.
8. In Ancient Greece, a follower or attendant.
9. A small purplish-white flower of the arctic tundra. [<Fr.
_oreille_ (ear) + Inuit _ertk_ (morning)]
10. Any of various small, swift antelopes of West Africa,
characteristically having a slender neck and annulate horns. Also
known as Bullington's Gazelle.
11. A large, coin-shaped, fossil foraminifer of the genus Oreortyx,
widely distributed in limestone formations from the Eocene Epoch to
the Miocene Epoch of the Cenozoic.
12. A priest in ancient Rome who practiced divination by the
inspection of the entrails of animals.
13. The compact bundle of white fiber by which the hippocampus of
each cerebral hemisphere projects to the opposite hippocampus and to
the septum, the anterior nucleus of the thalamus, and the mamillary
body.
14. A conical container of sorts.
15. A deep sea fish, related to the coelacanth
16. A cushion placed on the lap to provide support in lacemaking.
17. [Linguistics] A phoneme that begins and ends in a plosive.
18. A small, irregularly shaped bone within the knee, immediately
behind the patella.
Here's the list of clever defs for oreortyx, none of which involves
cookies. Seventeen are from your clever minds; one is from the
dictionary.
Please vote for two of your choosing, without looking the word up
first. Because I am a little late posting, I'll have to be a little
early in closing the vote. So please submit your votes by:
Midnight Tuesday July 4 EDT, 11 p.m. Central.
That will give us revolutionaries time to view fireworks and stagger
home before the deadline. Those of you in other parts of the world,
for whom the 4th is just a workday, will have to enjoy our day with
us vicariously. Think of me marching in a silly, hot parade (for a
political candidate) first thing in the morning and have pity!
Anyway, enough holiday bloviating. Here are the defs for your
voting pleasure…
Nancy
*******************
1. A creature of Greek mythology having the head and tail of a cat
and the body of a woman.
2. A small vestibule adjoining the narthex of an Orthodox church,
where the vestments are traditionally stored.
3. A gigantic primitive fern, reaching fifty feet or more in height.
4. A brain disease suffered by sheep
5. The horned screamer, a S. American bird.
6. Mountain quail of western United States
7. Return of a wanderer.
8. In Ancient Greece, a follower or attendant.
9. A small purplish-white flower of the arctic tundra. [<Fr.
_oreille_ (ear) + Inuit _ertk_ (morning)]
10. Any of various small, swift antelopes of West Africa,
characteristically having a slender neck and annulate horns. Also
known as Bullington's Gazelle.
11. A large, coin-shaped, fossil foraminifer of the genus Oreortyx,
widely distributed in limestone formations from the Eocene Epoch to
the Miocene Epoch of the Cenozoic.
12. A priest in ancient Rome who practiced divination by the
inspection of the entrails of animals.
13. The compact bundle of white fiber by which the hippocampus of
each cerebral hemisphere projects to the opposite hippocampus and to
the septum, the anterior nucleus of the thalamus, and the mamillary
body.
14. A conical container of sorts.
15. A deep sea fish, related to the coelacanth
16. A cushion placed on the lap to provide support in lacemaking.
17. [Linguistics] A phoneme that begins and ends in a plosive.
18. A small, irregularly shaped bone within the knee, immediately
behind the patella.