Tim Bourne
April 7th, 2007, 03:21 AM
Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in
reply to this one), before the deadline, which is 9 pm BST
on Sunday 8 April; that's 2000 GMT/UTC, or 4 pm EDT, and
I'm sure those in other time zones can work it out from
those.
I'm sorry about the email disruption over the last 36 hours
or so. Things seem to be back to normal now, and the
missing messages are trickling in. My suspicion is that my
ISP was updating or replacing a server, and something went
wrong. Dealer points will of course be forthcoming for
anyone whose definition was sent but didn't reach me.
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 "The Rules of
Dixonary.txt" in the library of the Coryphaeus Yahoo group.
1: a servant.
2: a candlemaker.
3: a trailer hitch
4: bird excrement (N. Eng. sl.)
5: inform against; implicate; betray.
6: [Neb. Sl.] a nag; a worn-out horse
7: [Brit. slang] toast with butter and jelly.
8: obs. N. dial. baptize [OE _dyppan_ infl by _dab_]
9: a mixture of clay and straw used as a building
material.
10: an old horse put out to pasture (shortened from
_Dobbin_).
11: 1. a lascivious old man 2. a disagreeable elderly
relative
12: [numis.] one quarter of a Spanish 8 reals coin, the
traditional "two bits."
13: 1. a low-ranking household servant. 2. a person hired
for removal of trash or debris; a janitor.
14: a steel rod with a rounded tip which is used to form
wet mortar between bricks or masonry stones.
15: a small lump -usually of earth or clay as thrown up by
horses hooves [to dobbin someone is to spatter them with
mud]
16: a mechanism consisting in general of an escape wheel
and an anchor, used especially in timepieces to control
movement of the wheel and to provide periodic energy
impulses to a pendulum or balance.
Best wishes,
Tim B
reply to this one), before the deadline, which is 9 pm BST
on Sunday 8 April; that's 2000 GMT/UTC, or 4 pm EDT, and
I'm sure those in other time zones can work it out from
those.
I'm sorry about the email disruption over the last 36 hours
or so. Things seem to be back to normal now, and the
missing messages are trickling in. My suspicion is that my
ISP was updating or replacing a server, and something went
wrong. Dealer points will of course be forthcoming for
anyone whose definition was sent but didn't reach me.
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 "The Rules of
Dixonary.txt" in the library of the Coryphaeus Yahoo group.
1: a servant.
2: a candlemaker.
3: a trailer hitch
4: bird excrement (N. Eng. sl.)
5: inform against; implicate; betray.
6: [Neb. Sl.] a nag; a worn-out horse
7: [Brit. slang] toast with butter and jelly.
8: obs. N. dial. baptize [OE _dyppan_ infl by _dab_]
9: a mixture of clay and straw used as a building
material.
10: an old horse put out to pasture (shortened from
_Dobbin_).
11: 1. a lascivious old man 2. a disagreeable elderly
relative
12: [numis.] one quarter of a Spanish 8 reals coin, the
traditional "two bits."
13: 1. a low-ranking household servant. 2. a person hired
for removal of trash or debris; a janitor.
14: a steel rod with a rounded tip which is used to form
wet mortar between bricks or masonry stones.
15: a small lump -usually of earth or clay as thrown up by
horses hooves [to dobbin someone is to spatter them with
mud]
16: a mechanism consisting in general of an escape wheel
and an anchor, used especially in timepieces to control
movement of the wheel and to provide periodic energy
impulses to a pendulum or balance.
Best wishes,
Tim B