Tim Lodge
May 10th, 2007, 04:20 AM
I could believe any of the 17 hand-crafted defs of QUIDRATHE that
you've sent in, as well as the real one from the dictionary, so you've
got a difficult task on your hands.
Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this
one), before the deadline of
16:30 BST
15:30 UTC/GMT
11:30 AM EDT
8:30 AM PDT, all on Friday 11th May
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
at http://tinyurl.com/br3oc
-- Tim L
1: preferred action.
2: a large punch bowl.
3: a long-bladed sickle.
4: an anise-based liqueur.
5: the fifth power of a quantity.
6: an early Saxon haunt or spirit.
7: [obs] the desire for vengeance.
8: a kind of small pipe for smoking tobacco
9: a branched chandelier or similar structure
10: a quarterly tax, payment, or entertainment.
11: a long heavy cannon used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
12: _law_ _obs._ an appellant for the Crown in a criminal action.
13: in colonial India, an indigenous revenue collector or landholder.
14: an arrow with red feathers, used in surveying in the Middle Ages.
15: a turf spade, often having a wing at one side at the blade, for
cutting wet peat and stacking it for drying.
16: in the early years of the Roman Republic, the smallest region
which was entitled to send a representative directly to the Senate in
Rome.
17: _Obs_ a hawthorn, esp. the thicket hawthorn (_Crataegus
intricata_), often planted as hedging and traditionally twined with
holly and pine boughs in Christmas wreaths. [ME, 'wreath-stuff']
18: the winner of a seat in an unopposed parliamentary election:
literally "who comes first" or "who comes quickly" this Latin phrase
was first applied sarcastically to those who stood for the "rotten
boroughs" where there were no voters and their election was therefore
automatic. (see Representation of the People Act 1832)
you've sent in, as well as the real one from the dictionary, so you've
got a difficult task on your hands.
Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this
one), before the deadline of
16:30 BST
15:30 UTC/GMT
11:30 AM EDT
8:30 AM PDT, all on Friday 11th May
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
at http://tinyurl.com/br3oc
-- Tim L
1: preferred action.
2: a large punch bowl.
3: a long-bladed sickle.
4: an anise-based liqueur.
5: the fifth power of a quantity.
6: an early Saxon haunt or spirit.
7: [obs] the desire for vengeance.
8: a kind of small pipe for smoking tobacco
9: a branched chandelier or similar structure
10: a quarterly tax, payment, or entertainment.
11: a long heavy cannon used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
12: _law_ _obs._ an appellant for the Crown in a criminal action.
13: in colonial India, an indigenous revenue collector or landholder.
14: an arrow with red feathers, used in surveying in the Middle Ages.
15: a turf spade, often having a wing at one side at the blade, for
cutting wet peat and stacking it for drying.
16: in the early years of the Roman Republic, the smallest region
which was entitled to send a representative directly to the Senate in
Rome.
17: _Obs_ a hawthorn, esp. the thicket hawthorn (_Crataegus
intricata_), often planted as hedging and traditionally twined with
holly and pine boughs in Christmas wreaths. [ME, 'wreath-stuff']
18: the winner of a seat in an unopposed parliamentary election:
literally "who comes first" or "who comes quickly" this Latin phrase
was first applied sarcastically to those who stood for the "rotten
boroughs" where there were no voters and their election was therefore
automatic. (see Representation of the People Act 1832)