Scott Crom
October 4th, 2007, 03:38 PM
Thank you for your patience. I had to spend for hours this
morning in the local hospital having some minor outpatient
surgery done. But I'm home again, have had a light lunch and a
heavy nap, and am now pleased to present the following 18
definitions of GRIDELIN for your voting pleasure. One of them
comes from my dictionary; the others are from your creative
minds.
Please cast two votes for your favorites by public response to
the message by the deadline of:
0800 EDT, Saturday morning, October 6
0500 PDT
Some other appropriate time in Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.
Enjoy!
1. Ornamented; decorated.
2. [Fr.] An evasive sidestep.
3. Wicker or wire basket of earth or rock.
4. Narrow braid formerly used as trimming.
5. Violet-gray [F. gris de lin 'flax gray'].
6. A rack fitted to a wagon for carrying hay.
7. An acolyte of the Greyfriars (Franciscans).
8. A very small mythical forest creature [Chiefly Irish].
9. A color, bluish-red in hue, of high saturation and low
brilliance.
10. The levelled or graded bed of a railway track before the
tracks are actually laid.
11. A small hard cake of well-salted journeybread, usually
dipped in tea before eating.
12. A large burrowing rodent native to the western slopes of the
Andes, Marmotus andesia.
13. A phospholipid layer sheathing the inner striations of
mitochondria in eukaryotic cells.
14. [Norse folklore] An imp that dwells along footpaths and
reaches out to trip unwary people.
15. A mild French cheese, highly prized locally and rarely
exported. [fm the village, in Cote-d'Or near Dijon, where it
is produced]
16. A masonry technique for placement of stones resulting in
walls or foundations which are stable over time but do not
require mortar.
17. The helical blade on the inside of a cement mixer that
allows it to either mix or deliver its contents by reversing
the direction of rotation.
18. A navigation technique using a regular grid aligned to a
specific meridian of the earth, for use with gyroscopic
platform heading reference systems which maintain a fixed
alignment in space rather than pointing north.
Scott, who is your dealer this round.
morning in the local hospital having some minor outpatient
surgery done. But I'm home again, have had a light lunch and a
heavy nap, and am now pleased to present the following 18
definitions of GRIDELIN for your voting pleasure. One of them
comes from my dictionary; the others are from your creative
minds.
Please cast two votes for your favorites by public response to
the message by the deadline of:
0800 EDT, Saturday morning, October 6
0500 PDT
Some other appropriate time in Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.
Enjoy!
1. Ornamented; decorated.
2. [Fr.] An evasive sidestep.
3. Wicker or wire basket of earth or rock.
4. Narrow braid formerly used as trimming.
5. Violet-gray [F. gris de lin 'flax gray'].
6. A rack fitted to a wagon for carrying hay.
7. An acolyte of the Greyfriars (Franciscans).
8. A very small mythical forest creature [Chiefly Irish].
9. A color, bluish-red in hue, of high saturation and low
brilliance.
10. The levelled or graded bed of a railway track before the
tracks are actually laid.
11. A small hard cake of well-salted journeybread, usually
dipped in tea before eating.
12. A large burrowing rodent native to the western slopes of the
Andes, Marmotus andesia.
13. A phospholipid layer sheathing the inner striations of
mitochondria in eukaryotic cells.
14. [Norse folklore] An imp that dwells along footpaths and
reaches out to trip unwary people.
15. A mild French cheese, highly prized locally and rarely
exported. [fm the village, in Cote-d'Or near Dijon, where it
is produced]
16. A masonry technique for placement of stones resulting in
walls or foundations which are stable over time but do not
require mortar.
17. The helical blade on the inside of a cement mixer that
allows it to either mix or deliver its contents by reversing
the direction of rotation.
18. A navigation technique using a regular grid aligned to a
specific meridian of the earth, for use with gyroscopic
platform heading reference systems which maintain a fixed
alignment in space rather than pointing north.
Scott, who is your dealer this round.