Tim Lodge
June 17th, 2005, 02:08 PM
My sailing turned out to be motoring in very poor visibility. We
were out of sight of land for 2 hours, even though we were never
more than 3 miles out to sea. No wind, and definitely no sight of
the sun!
So here they are - 20 defs of varying flamboyance of the word BAROKO
for your voting pleasure. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public
forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline which is:
09:00 BST on Sunday 19 June,which is
08:00 GMT/UTC
4:00 AM EDT
1:00 AM PDT 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 in the file RULES.DIX in library 17.
Have fun.
Tim
1: a wild llama.
2: a deep ravine.
3: a flat tambor.
4: distorted; oblique.
5: a scarf worn by Sikh men.
6: [Jap.] slang for out of money.
7: [Swahili] the leader in a hunting party.
8: [Jap.] an apprentice to a master instructor.
9: a pattern of stripes used in some Italian textiles.
10: a firmly woven fabric of metal or plastic filaments.
11: a group of confidential, often scheming advisers; a cabal.
12: a headache treatment by native peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
13: the _sushi_ style of Northern Hokkaido, involving shrimps and
squid.
14: a form of street fighting which makes much use of head-butting
and biting of nose or ears.
15: a shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies
with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit.
16: (Logic) a form or mode of syllogism of which the first
proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are
particular negative.
17: a game of chance similar to roulette (q.v.) but having a wheel
containing various symbols, including bars and circles, on which
players also wager.
18: an Italian candy made by pouring dark chocolate over almonds or
other nuts, letting it cool until hardened, then breaking it into
chunks with a mallet.
19: an American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the
plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish
brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the
buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually.
Called also cabr['e]e, cabut, prongbuck, pronghorn, and pronghorned
antelope.
20: a logic term meaning specifying the inclusion of the remainder
of a list when other members of the list have been individually
defined; literally 'bar OK - except the OK ones' - example: in
racing, having declared the odds of the top priced horses a
bookmaker would say '100 to 8 bar these'; as a trained logician he
could say '100 to 8 baroko'.
were out of sight of land for 2 hours, even though we were never
more than 3 miles out to sea. No wind, and definitely no sight of
the sun!
So here they are - 20 defs of varying flamboyance of the word BAROKO
for your voting pleasure. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public
forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline which is:
09:00 BST on Sunday 19 June,which is
08:00 GMT/UTC
4:00 AM EDT
1:00 AM PDT 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 in the file RULES.DIX in library 17.
Have fun.
Tim
1: a wild llama.
2: a deep ravine.
3: a flat tambor.
4: distorted; oblique.
5: a scarf worn by Sikh men.
6: [Jap.] slang for out of money.
7: [Swahili] the leader in a hunting party.
8: [Jap.] an apprentice to a master instructor.
9: a pattern of stripes used in some Italian textiles.
10: a firmly woven fabric of metal or plastic filaments.
11: a group of confidential, often scheming advisers; a cabal.
12: a headache treatment by native peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
13: the _sushi_ style of Northern Hokkaido, involving shrimps and
squid.
14: a form of street fighting which makes much use of head-butting
and biting of nose or ears.
15: a shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies
with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit.
16: (Logic) a form or mode of syllogism of which the first
proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are
particular negative.
17: a game of chance similar to roulette (q.v.) but having a wheel
containing various symbols, including bars and circles, on which
players also wager.
18: an Italian candy made by pouring dark chocolate over almonds or
other nuts, letting it cool until hardened, then breaking it into
chunks with a mallet.
19: an American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the
plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish
brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the
buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually.
Called also cabr['e]e, cabut, prongbuck, pronghorn, and pronghorned
antelope.
20: a logic term meaning specifying the inclusion of the remainder
of a list when other members of the list have been individually
defined; literally 'bar OK - except the OK ones' - example: in
racing, having declared the odds of the top priced horses a
bookmaker would say '100 to 8 bar these'; as a trained logician he
could say '100 to 8 baroko'.