Dodi Schultz
October 21st, 2006, 11:35 AM
And here they are: 19 clever, creative, credible definitions for HORST.
Well, 18 clever and creative; one is real, faithfully copied from an
honest-to-goodness dictionary.
Choose the two that you truly believe. Well, MIGHT believe. Post their
numbers here. Please sign your vote, to save your dealer the trouble of
digging through routing text; thank you.
Deadline for casting your votes: Sunday 22 October, 11 p.m. EDT.
--Dodi
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1. sour.
2. _Ger_ a barrel-maker or cooper.
3. _Du_ the nest of a bird of prey.
4. _Ger_ the black-crowned night heron.
5. a common garden weed of western Europe.
6. _Archaic_ heard; spec. in "thou horst."
7. a shaft in a glacier caused by water running down a crack.
8. a rock fragment or grain resulting from the breakdown of larger
rocks.
9. a type of woodworking file used primarily to apply crosshatching on
cabinet trim.
10. any of the diagonal beams that strengthen the walls of traditional
Alpine houses.
11. _Geol_ a rock formation produced by uneven weathering of rock layers
with differing hardness.
12. a mass of the earth's crust that lies between two faults and is
higher than the surrounding land.
13. a highly spiced stew of eastern Europe made with beets, cabbage,
onions, potatoes, and goat meat.
14. in Slavic mythology, a type of homunculus thought to be responsible
for milk souring, crops failing, etc.
15. a grove or woodland. [arch.; more usually "hurst" and now found only
in such place names as Lyndhurst, Oakhorst, etc.]
16. a Brazilian dish consisting of an assortment of sliced meats, such as
tongue and sausage, and side dishes, including rice, beans, collard
greens, oranges, and hot pepper sauce.
17. a card game ancestral to whist, played with a full deck by two teams
of two players, in which the last card dealt indicates trump, tricks
of four cards are played, and a point is scored for each trick over
six won by each team.
18. a name for various fungi (popularly called rust, smut, mildew, etc.)
parasitic on grain and certain other plants; formerly regarded as a
distinct genus but now known to be only the intermediate stage of the
Horestidae or rust fungi. Usu. with capital.
19. _Geol_ 1. a bowl-like formation, standing clear of the surrounding
plain, that is caused by water erosion acting together with the
subsidence of underlying dolomitic rock. 2. any irregular mound or
ridge of gravel, sand, etc., deposited by water derived from melting
glaciers. [Ger. Horst, "nest"]
Well, 18 clever and creative; one is real, faithfully copied from an
honest-to-goodness dictionary.
Choose the two that you truly believe. Well, MIGHT believe. Post their
numbers here. Please sign your vote, to save your dealer the trouble of
digging through routing text; thank you.
Deadline for casting your votes: Sunday 22 October, 11 p.m. EDT.
--Dodi
* * * *
1. sour.
2. _Ger_ a barrel-maker or cooper.
3. _Du_ the nest of a bird of prey.
4. _Ger_ the black-crowned night heron.
5. a common garden weed of western Europe.
6. _Archaic_ heard; spec. in "thou horst."
7. a shaft in a glacier caused by water running down a crack.
8. a rock fragment or grain resulting from the breakdown of larger
rocks.
9. a type of woodworking file used primarily to apply crosshatching on
cabinet trim.
10. any of the diagonal beams that strengthen the walls of traditional
Alpine houses.
11. _Geol_ a rock formation produced by uneven weathering of rock layers
with differing hardness.
12. a mass of the earth's crust that lies between two faults and is
higher than the surrounding land.
13. a highly spiced stew of eastern Europe made with beets, cabbage,
onions, potatoes, and goat meat.
14. in Slavic mythology, a type of homunculus thought to be responsible
for milk souring, crops failing, etc.
15. a grove or woodland. [arch.; more usually "hurst" and now found only
in such place names as Lyndhurst, Oakhorst, etc.]
16. a Brazilian dish consisting of an assortment of sliced meats, such as
tongue and sausage, and side dishes, including rice, beans, collard
greens, oranges, and hot pepper sauce.
17. a card game ancestral to whist, played with a full deck by two teams
of two players, in which the last card dealt indicates trump, tricks
of four cards are played, and a point is scored for each trick over
six won by each team.
18. a name for various fungi (popularly called rust, smut, mildew, etc.)
parasitic on grain and certain other plants; formerly regarded as a
distinct genus but now known to be only the intermediate stage of the
Horestidae or rust fungi. Usu. with capital.
19. _Geol_ 1. a bowl-like formation, standing clear of the surrounding
plain, that is caused by water erosion acting together with the
subsidence of underlying dolomitic rock. 2. any irregular mound or
ridge of gravel, sand, etc., deposited by water derived from melting
glaciers. [Ger. Horst, "nest"]