Paul Keating
September 27th, 2007, 01:00 AM
Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 19 definitions for
HORSAGE presented below for your edification and entertainment. The
remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values) of
"good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible, politically
correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a random
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1. (Bot.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having
crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers,
causing intolerable itching. The spiculę are sometimes used in
medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
2. an aromatic herb of the _Salvia_ family, _S. variegata_, having
fractose leaves and small, tripetalled violet flowers
3. a type of Native American headdress with a beaded brow band and
usually covered with bison fur
4. a nutty odor which often indicates a vat of fermenting wine has
begun to vinegarize
5. average based on the form of a horse and used by bookmakers to set
intial odds
6. something extra offered to or claimed by a party as due; a
perquisite
7. a spicy blend of mustard, cayenne pepper and horseradish
8. an ornamental festoon of flowers or fruit
9. a second-growth crop, as of hay
10. a light sauce or glaze
11. provision or supply of horses
12. _obs._ a display of indignant rage
13. a sort of timepiece popular in 18th century France
14. food picked up by swine in woods; right to pasture swine
15. a small, bushy perennial used in garden borders (_Gaura
lindheimeri_)
16. in medieval England, a tithe payable to the church for each horse
in the parish
17. the accumulation of juice and bits of unburned tobacco at the
bottom of the bowl of a pipe
18. a clover, _Trifolium alexandrinum, of Egypt and Syria, grown for
forage in the southwestern U.S.
19. a measure of the ideal distance between supporting walls in a
structure; soundness is based on standard deviation from average
horsage
HORSAGE presented below for your edification and entertainment. The
remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values) of
"good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible, politically
correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a random
number generator). You can do this whether or not you have not submitted a
definition, and whether or not you have played before. You're not allowed to
vote if you know the right answer.
Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on 28
September 2007 at
11:00 PDT
12:00 MDT
13:00 CDT
14:00 EDT
18:00 UTC
19:00 BST
and 20:00 CEST for me.
1. (Bot.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having
crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers,
causing intolerable itching. The spiculę are sometimes used in
medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
2. an aromatic herb of the _Salvia_ family, _S. variegata_, having
fractose leaves and small, tripetalled violet flowers
3. a type of Native American headdress with a beaded brow band and
usually covered with bison fur
4. a nutty odor which often indicates a vat of fermenting wine has
begun to vinegarize
5. average based on the form of a horse and used by bookmakers to set
intial odds
6. something extra offered to or claimed by a party as due; a
perquisite
7. a spicy blend of mustard, cayenne pepper and horseradish
8. an ornamental festoon of flowers or fruit
9. a second-growth crop, as of hay
10. a light sauce or glaze
11. provision or supply of horses
12. _obs._ a display of indignant rage
13. a sort of timepiece popular in 18th century France
14. food picked up by swine in woods; right to pasture swine
15. a small, bushy perennial used in garden borders (_Gaura
lindheimeri_)
16. in medieval England, a tithe payable to the church for each horse
in the parish
17. the accumulation of juice and bits of unburned tobacco at the
bottom of the bowl of a pipe
18. a clover, _Trifolium alexandrinum, of Egypt and Syria, grown for
forage in the southwestern U.S.
19. a measure of the ideal distance between supporting walls in a
structure; soundness is based on standard deviation from average
horsage