Tim Lodge
January 28th, 2008, 12:20 PM
I'm doing this quite soon after the deadline because I'm going out, so
I hope I haven't cut out anyone's def. Here are 15 colourful defs of
the word SVARABHAKTI, only one of which came from my dictionary. Vote
for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
before the deadline of:
09:00 UTC on Wednesday 30th January, or
4:00 AM EST
1:00 AM PST
20:00 for Jim in the city where my mother was born.
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
** SVARABHAKTI **
1: left-handed.
2: a short, dagger-like spear.
3: a Hindu purification ritual.
4: devotion to an ideal or principle.
5: [Sansk.] a type of ball game, now unknown.
6: of or pertaining to the construction of fortifications or walls.
7: a nervous disorder that causes twitching, weakness, and itchiness.
8: kidneys and bushmeat cooked in hot pepper sauce with cassave
dumplings.
9: the process by which a parasitic vowel is inserted between two
consonants.
10: small coins distributed to beggars in Middle East and India [fr.
Pers baksheesh q.v.)
11: [Buddhism] the second highest state of existence, prior to
nirvana; one who achieves this.
12: a pungent herb (Boswus stanfordus) of the Kalahari, sometimes used
to brew a medicinal tea by indigenous Bushmen.
13: in India, an elaborately decorated one-horse carriage in which a
bride and groom are transported to their nuptials.
14: _Hind., Beng._ In eastern India and Bangladesh, common name for
the tame rhesus monkey or bandar (_Macaca mulatta_); lit. "mischievous
small man."
15: a tall palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of India and Sri Lanka,
having a spreading crown of very large fanlike leaves and a giant
inflorescence that is the largest among the flowering plants.
I hope I haven't cut out anyone's def. Here are 15 colourful defs of
the word SVARABHAKTI, only one of which came from my dictionary. Vote
for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
before the deadline of:
09:00 UTC on Wednesday 30th January, or
4:00 AM EST
1:00 AM PST
20:00 for Jim in the city where my mother was born.
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
** SVARABHAKTI **
1: left-handed.
2: a short, dagger-like spear.
3: a Hindu purification ritual.
4: devotion to an ideal or principle.
5: [Sansk.] a type of ball game, now unknown.
6: of or pertaining to the construction of fortifications or walls.
7: a nervous disorder that causes twitching, weakness, and itchiness.
8: kidneys and bushmeat cooked in hot pepper sauce with cassave
dumplings.
9: the process by which a parasitic vowel is inserted between two
consonants.
10: small coins distributed to beggars in Middle East and India [fr.
Pers baksheesh q.v.)
11: [Buddhism] the second highest state of existence, prior to
nirvana; one who achieves this.
12: a pungent herb (Boswus stanfordus) of the Kalahari, sometimes used
to brew a medicinal tea by indigenous Bushmen.
13: in India, an elaborately decorated one-horse carriage in which a
bride and groom are transported to their nuptials.
14: _Hind., Beng._ In eastern India and Bangladesh, common name for
the tame rhesus monkey or bandar (_Macaca mulatta_); lit. "mischievous
small man."
15: a tall palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of India and Sri Lanka,
having a spreading crown of very large fanlike leaves and a giant
inflorescence that is the largest among the flowering plants.