Scott Crom
August 6th, 2007, 08:02 AM
Here are 17 definitions of PHOLIDOTE, a wide enough variety to
give your brain cells some real exercise.
Please cast your two votes for those you think most likely,
or most deserving, by public response to this message, by the
deadline of 2000 hours, i.e. 8:00 pm, Eastern Time, tomorrow,
Tuesday, August 7, which I think is about 35 hours from now.
Other zones, other times.
Enjoy!
1. Scaly.
2. A romantic missive.
3. Barbarous; stupefied from drink.
4. A somewhat thick, whitish lichen.
5. Grotesque face on a door-knocker.
6. Covered with small, scurfy scales.
7. An early Renaissance courtesan's dance.
8. One who collects unusual glass bottles.
9. A small but aggressive and spirited person.
10. The larval state of a grasshopper or cicada.
11. A drug that counteracts the effects of several different
allergens.
12. A naturally occurring cue, such as light or temperature, which
regulates biological rhythms.
13. Any of a group of chemical compounds which react with
certain enzymes
in the presence of light.
14. Any sweetening agent (honey, sugar, molasses, etc.) added to a
medicine to mask a bitter flavor.
15. The full biological record of a tree's history, as revealed
by root
depths, trunk growth rings, bark erosion, insect incursions,
etc.
16. _adj._ obtained from shellfish; _sb._ (rare) a pearl [ISV, Gk
_pholi-_ mollusc + _-dote_ fm Gk _doton_ something given,
pa. pple.
of _didonai_ to give].
17. Refers to the specific pattern of the embossed surface of
copper-vessels made between 1600-1100 BC. These copper
basins have
only been found in association with the cultic worship of
the god
Dagon and are deemed diagnostic of Carthaginian settlements.
Scott
give your brain cells some real exercise.
Please cast your two votes for those you think most likely,
or most deserving, by public response to this message, by the
deadline of 2000 hours, i.e. 8:00 pm, Eastern Time, tomorrow,
Tuesday, August 7, which I think is about 35 hours from now.
Other zones, other times.
Enjoy!
1. Scaly.
2. A romantic missive.
3. Barbarous; stupefied from drink.
4. A somewhat thick, whitish lichen.
5. Grotesque face on a door-knocker.
6. Covered with small, scurfy scales.
7. An early Renaissance courtesan's dance.
8. One who collects unusual glass bottles.
9. A small but aggressive and spirited person.
10. The larval state of a grasshopper or cicada.
11. A drug that counteracts the effects of several different
allergens.
12. A naturally occurring cue, such as light or temperature, which
regulates biological rhythms.
13. Any of a group of chemical compounds which react with
certain enzymes
in the presence of light.
14. Any sweetening agent (honey, sugar, molasses, etc.) added to a
medicine to mask a bitter flavor.
15. The full biological record of a tree's history, as revealed
by root
depths, trunk growth rings, bark erosion, insect incursions,
etc.
16. _adj._ obtained from shellfish; _sb._ (rare) a pearl [ISV, Gk
_pholi-_ mollusc + _-dote_ fm Gk _doton_ something given,
pa. pple.
of _didonai_ to give].
17. Refers to the specific pattern of the embossed surface of
copper-vessels made between 1600-1100 BC. These copper
basins have
only been found in association with the cultic worship of
the god
Dagon and are deemed diagnostic of Carthaginian settlements.
Scott