[Dixonary] Gaum vote now!

[Bill Hirst]

Despite unavoidable delays in posting the defintions, there are only
15.
Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before
deadline,
which is 2:00 PM EDT on Saturday, October 27, 2007, or 11:00 AM PDT .

As always, any errors are due to happenstance, coincidence,
or enemy action.

1. ancient Roman name for the fertile and productive Nera valley
region north of Rome.

2. _Archaic_ Genuine; real.

3. gaum: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange
color.

4. a bowed Welsh lyre about the size of a violin.

5. to smudge or smear

6. a thin plaster applied to brickwork.

7. a type of giant yam grown in Borneo and New Guinea

8. part of the Yorkshire minced-oath, "by gaum", or "eee by gaum"

9. the blister beetle.

10. an alkaloid poison secreted by certain Australian toads.

11. a series of symbolic body postures and hand movements used in East
Indian classical dancing.

12. in joinery, a cap or plug concealing the head of a screw.

13. To scowl or glower.

14. the knee or knuckle joint of a grass-stem

15. {OE] the sap of the spruce tree.

[waynescottmd@earthlink.net]

Wow. I even believe my def as well as most of the ones on the list. Since I
find it impossible to decipher Yorkshire country accents, I may have been
told gaum often. As long as I'm in that frame of mind I'll try the Welsh
which I'm almost positive isn't correct.
4 and 8, please.

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went.
--Will Rogers

[Daniel B. Widdis]

Having no other idea, I'll smudge, smear, scowl, and glower at 5 and 13.

--
Dan

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 2 and 8.

Guerri

[JohnnyB]

Like Dan, I find mine as believable as any - so I will go for two which are pragmatically the same for me... smudge and smear is my
level of plastwerwork so #5 and #6 please

JoihnnyB

[dixonary@siam.co.uk]

6 and 13, please.

Best wishes,

Tim B

[Toni Savage]

yeah... if 8 isn't it, it deserves a vote. and 14.

-- Toni Savage

[Judy Madnick]

<< 10. an alkaloid poison secreted by certain Australian toads.

<< 15. {OE] the sap of the spruce tree.

Judy Madnick

[Dave Cunningham]

5 and 6 this time out.

Dave

On Oct 26, 1:36 am, Bill Hirst <billhi... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> Despite unavoidable delays in posting the defintions, there are only
> 15.
> Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before
> deadline,
> which is 2:00 PM EDT on Saturday, October 27, 2007, or 11:00 AM PDT .
>
> As always, any errors are due to happenstance, coincidence,
> or enemy action.
>
> 1. ancient Roman name for the fertile and productive Nera valley
> region north of Rome.
>
> 2. _Archaic_ Genuine; real.
>
> 3. gaum: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange
> color.
>
> 4. a bowed Welsh lyre about the size of a violin.
>
> 5. to smudge or smear
>
> 6. a thin plaster applied to brickwork.
>
> 7. a type of giant yam grown in Borneo and New Guinea
>
> 8. part of the Yorkshire minced-oath, "by gaum", or "eee by gaum"
>
> 9. the blister beetle.
>
> 10. an alkaloid poison secreted by certain Australian toads.
>
> 11. a series of symbolic body postures and hand movements used in East
> Indian classical dancing.
>
> 12. in joinery, a cap or plug concealing the head of a screw.
>
> 13. To scowl or glower.
>
> 14. the knee or knuckle joint of a grass-stem
>
> 15. {OE] the sap of the spruce tree.

[France International]

I'll try 2 and 13.

[Dodi Schultz]

I've narrowed it down to what seem to be three likelies, two of which are
#6 and #13.

It's probably the third.

--Dodi

[Christopher Carson]

A likely cast of characters but I'll go for 5 and 13, the smear and the
scowl.

Chris

[Chuck]

Bill -

The list may be short, but it _is_ interseting. I'll go for:

10. an alkaloid poison secreted by certain Australian toads.

and

13. To scowl or glower.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Scott Crom]

I'll have 5 and 6, please.

Scott

[Tony Abell]

Inasmuch as I feel scowling and getting plastered, I'll try 6 and 13.

[Nancy Shepherdson]

2 and 13 for me.

Nancy

[BobStone]

I'll go with #3 and #15, and this time I know why . . . but I forget.

-Bob Stone

[Russ Heimerson]

I'll go for two of the popular ones, #5 and #13.

Russ