Toni Savage
July 19th, 2008, 07:10 AM
Sorry about the lateness... my internet was out for a bit last night, and while I rebooted my computer to see if it was back, I went in the other room and fell asleep! But I'm back up, and here they are... 20 lovely CHALAZA's one of which came from a standeard, dead-tree dictionary!
Please vote for two by reply to this message -- the deadline is Sunday evening at 8pm Eastern time (5pm Pacific and sometime after 2am Over There...
1. a heretical sect that stood rather than kneeled while praying
2. _Brazil._ a spicy chicken sausage [alter. f. Pg chouriço]
3. in a bird's egg, the string that holds the yolk sac in position
(_zool._)
4. A broad heel of moderate height with a slightly tapered back and
straight front, used in shoes and some boots.
5. _Hypericum trifolia_, also called lambs'-wort, a common garden weed
of the eastern U.S., having three-lobed, cloverlike leaves and small
white flowers in early summer.
6. An Israeli circular folk dance for up to fifty people.
7. a gruel made from millet.
8. a southwestern "pizza" with a tortilla base, a mixture of ground
beef, hot peppers, onions, and tomatillos, topped with melted
Monterey Jack cheese.
9. A technique for coloring eggs using enamel paint and feather brushes.
10. an Albanian sweet sausage.
11. a traditional pattern used for decoration in Arabic architecture.
12. a broken vow.
13. an ornamental choir-screen
14. A pocket of dough that is stuffed, as with minced pork or shrimp, and
fried.
15. a flat bread of Thailand
16. chant sung to a valiha (qv) by mountain tribes in N. Madagascar
17. an abrasive soap embedded with very fine sand.
18. A Central American blackbird of the cloud forest; distinguishing
characteristic is yellow feathers around the upper legs resembling
pantaloons.
19. a goat's-milk cheese produced in the Marche region of Italy.
20. [Heb./Yid.] the daughter of a marriage between a Kohein (priestly
class) and a woman of non-Kohanic lineage or a divorcee. See Chalal,
the male equivalent. Children of such a union are and their
descendants are no longer considered part of the Kohani
-- Toni Savage
Please vote for two by reply to this message -- the deadline is Sunday evening at 8pm Eastern time (5pm Pacific and sometime after 2am Over There...
1. a heretical sect that stood rather than kneeled while praying
2. _Brazil._ a spicy chicken sausage [alter. f. Pg chouriço]
3. in a bird's egg, the string that holds the yolk sac in position
(_zool._)
4. A broad heel of moderate height with a slightly tapered back and
straight front, used in shoes and some boots.
5. _Hypericum trifolia_, also called lambs'-wort, a common garden weed
of the eastern U.S., having three-lobed, cloverlike leaves and small
white flowers in early summer.
6. An Israeli circular folk dance for up to fifty people.
7. a gruel made from millet.
8. a southwestern "pizza" with a tortilla base, a mixture of ground
beef, hot peppers, onions, and tomatillos, topped with melted
Monterey Jack cheese.
9. A technique for coloring eggs using enamel paint and feather brushes.
10. an Albanian sweet sausage.
11. a traditional pattern used for decoration in Arabic architecture.
12. a broken vow.
13. an ornamental choir-screen
14. A pocket of dough that is stuffed, as with minced pork or shrimp, and
fried.
15. a flat bread of Thailand
16. chant sung to a valiha (qv) by mountain tribes in N. Madagascar
17. an abrasive soap embedded with very fine sand.
18. A Central American blackbird of the cloud forest; distinguishing
characteristic is yellow feathers around the upper legs resembling
pantaloons.
19. a goat's-milk cheese produced in the Marche region of Italy.
20. [Heb./Yid.] the daughter of a marriage between a Kohein (priestly
class) and a woman of non-Kohanic lineage or a divorcee. See Chalal,
the male equivalent. Children of such a union are and their
descendants are no longer considered part of the Kohani
-- Toni Savage