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Toni Savage
December 23rd, 2006, 09:26 AM
OK-- lubra is ready: One of the 17 definitions below is the real one. Please
vote for TWO by reply to this message,
The deadline is Sunday evening at 9pm Eastern Standard Time, which is 6pm
Pacific time, or sometime in the wee small hours across The Pond.

1. being sexually attractive.

2. A Portuguese omelet with sliced olives, spinach and crab meat,
usually served at daybreak

3. a car mechanic [Australian slang]

4. [Lat.] fat used on chariot axles.

5. _Music_ A drumbeat consisting of two almost simultaneous strokes of
which the first is a very rapid grace note.

6. a preserved lemon used in North African cookery.

7. A series of symbolic body postures and hand movements used in East
Indian classical dancing.

8. a very elastic type of latex used in weather balloons.

9. [_Slav._, esp. _Pol._] a small bouquet presented by a man to his
intended on the occasion of proposing marriage.

10. attachment to guide projectile through bore of firearm.

11. A scuffle; a brawl.

12. An aboriginal woman [Tasmanian]

13. lazy woman

14. A bright red morning glory, _Ipomoea rubrola_, native to Brazil.

15. the oily, odorous secretion of a gland near the eye of a male
elephant, produced during the mating period (musth).

16. A drink prepared from sassafras-bark; sassafras-tea.

17. an oxide of silicon with similar lubricating properties to
those of graphite



-- Toni Savage

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Daniel B. Widdis
December 23rd, 2006, 09:39 AM
Oooh! First vote!

4 is quite creative, and 13 looks so short and thrown-together that it
couldn't be a player submission, could it?

--
Dan

Judy Madnick
December 23rd, 2006, 09:56 AM
I'll go with:

<< 8. a very elastic type of latex used in weather balloons.

<< 14. A bright red morning glory, _Ipomoea rubrola_, native to Brazil.

Judy Madnick

Kathryn Lance
December 23rd, 2006, 10:50 AM
Toni, why didn't you include the REAL definition?



I will waste my votes on the drumbeat and the flower: 5 and 14, please.



KL





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Tim Bourne
December 23rd, 2006, 02:37 PM
3 and 13 seem almost impossible enough to be true.

Best wishes, and Happy Christmas (or whatever else you may
be celebrating at this season),

Tim B

Dave Cunningham
December 23rd, 2006, 02:42 PM
5 for incomprehensibility, and 17 for chutzpah ...

Dave

mshefler
December 23rd, 2006, 03:46 PM
I"ll try 6 and 7.

BobStone
December 23rd, 2006, 11:37 PM
#10 and #15 only because none of them sound right.

-Bob Stone

Christopher Carson
December 24th, 2006, 10:10 AM
I think I'll pass on all of the slippery derivitives and take a stab at
numbers 6 and 16.

Chris

Tony Abell
December 24th, 2006, 05:17 PM
I'll take 11 and 16, for no particular reason.

Russ Heimerson
December 24th, 2006, 06:10 PM
As a Christmas gift to the submitters of numbers 1 & 2, I'll vote for
their defs, to keep them from going voteless.

Russ