EnDash@aol.com
April 21st, 2008, 12:09 PM
We have an unusually numerous and varied list of definitions for ADYTUM.
Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
before the deadline.
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 in the file
RULES.DIX in library 17.
1: cooked animal entrails
2: a stipend paid to a widow
3: without an inner membrane
4: [Lat.] a supporting cornice
5: the sanctum in an ancient temple.
6: a disused horizontal shaft in a mine
7: [Law] regarding a question of perjury
8: a tough membrane surrounding the kidneys
9: the entrance to a cavern or series of caverns
10: state or condition of lacking a bladder [Med.]
11: a savory stew of root vegetables and mutton. (Polish)
12: something you chew when you have heartburn from your ADY
13: a passage of unnecessary interpolated text in a manuscript
14: (a) an item which does not attract customs duty; hence (b) a duty-free
shop
15: an area planted with a particular class of vegetation for botanical
studies
16: assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or
semivowel
17: a bay window projecting from an upper floor, supported from below with a
corbel or bracket
18: a continuation of a ventilation shaft in a mine below the level of the
main shaft to accumulate water or debris
19: a deposition of loose, exfoliated rock resulting from the freezing and
thawing of water penetrating adjacent rock
20: in a collection of statistical data, a single outlier observation, which
is generally thrown out and attributed to mismeasurement
21: a contoured stone bench in the tepidarium or unctorium of a Roman bath
where bathers reclined to be anointed [L. fm Gk. _aduton_ 'sacrifical altar'
which the carved surface was thought to resemble]
Closing deadline for votes is Wednesday, April 23, 12 Noon EDT
-- Dick
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Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
before the deadline.
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 in the file
RULES.DIX in library 17.
1: cooked animal entrails
2: a stipend paid to a widow
3: without an inner membrane
4: [Lat.] a supporting cornice
5: the sanctum in an ancient temple.
6: a disused horizontal shaft in a mine
7: [Law] regarding a question of perjury
8: a tough membrane surrounding the kidneys
9: the entrance to a cavern or series of caverns
10: state or condition of lacking a bladder [Med.]
11: a savory stew of root vegetables and mutton. (Polish)
12: something you chew when you have heartburn from your ADY
13: a passage of unnecessary interpolated text in a manuscript
14: (a) an item which does not attract customs duty; hence (b) a duty-free
shop
15: an area planted with a particular class of vegetation for botanical
studies
16: assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or
semivowel
17: a bay window projecting from an upper floor, supported from below with a
corbel or bracket
18: a continuation of a ventilation shaft in a mine below the level of the
main shaft to accumulate water or debris
19: a deposition of loose, exfoliated rock resulting from the freezing and
thawing of water penetrating adjacent rock
20: in a collection of statistical data, a single outlier observation, which
is generally thrown out and attributed to mismeasurement
21: a contoured stone bench in the tepidarium or unctorium of a Roman bath
where bathers reclined to be anointed [L. fm Gk. _aduton_ 'sacrifical altar'
which the carved surface was thought to resemble]
Closing deadline for votes is Wednesday, April 23, 12 Noon EDT
-- Dick
**************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car
listings at AOL Autos.
(http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)