Paul Keating
July 23rd, 2008, 11:50 AM
Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 20 definitions
for
HORDARIAN presented below for your edification and entertainment. The
remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values)
of
"good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible, politically
correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a
random
number generator). You can do this whether or not you have not
submitted a
definition, and whether or not you have played before. You're not
allowed to
vote if you know the right answer.
Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on 24
July
2008 at
23:00 PDT
23:59 MDT
and on 25 July 2008 at
01:00 CDT
02:00 EDT
06:00 UTC
07:00 BST
and 08:00 CEST for me.
1. having a sloping brow
2. a collector of clocks and other timepieces
3. a purple dye made from indigo darkened with lye
4. the right to glean barley fields [L. hordeum 'barley']
5. a historian who specializes in the study of the Mongols
6. pertaining to or having the characteristics of winged insects
7. a believer in a cult based on the accumulation of certain objects
8. _Architecture_ the edge of the tiling that projects over a roof
gable
9. using or having ambiguous or allegorical meanings, especially to
elude political censorship
10. _arch._ a monk charged with keeping the hours for services before
the advent of clocks in 1000 A.D.
11. officer in charge of the hoard or collection of property belonging
to the Monastery at Winchester
12. a small purple butterfly native to arid regions of the
southwestern
United States
13. in the Ottoman empire, an overseer of slaves attached to army
units
14. trusting in the intrinsic superiority of one's family or clan
15. a long narrow Persian rug designed for use in a hallway
16. a measure of grain equal to approximately 1000 bushels
17. of, like or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies
18. the lowest point of development or prosperity
19. of, like, or pertaining to dice games
20. an emetic
for
HORDARIAN presented below for your edification and entertainment. The
remaining definition is, believe it or not, real.
Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values)
of
"good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible, politically
correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as chosen by a
random
number generator). You can do this whether or not you have not
submitted a
definition, and whether or not you have played before. You're not
allowed to
vote if you know the right answer.
Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on 24
July
2008 at
23:00 PDT
23:59 MDT
and on 25 July 2008 at
01:00 CDT
02:00 EDT
06:00 UTC
07:00 BST
and 08:00 CEST for me.
1. having a sloping brow
2. a collector of clocks and other timepieces
3. a purple dye made from indigo darkened with lye
4. the right to glean barley fields [L. hordeum 'barley']
5. a historian who specializes in the study of the Mongols
6. pertaining to or having the characteristics of winged insects
7. a believer in a cult based on the accumulation of certain objects
8. _Architecture_ the edge of the tiling that projects over a roof
gable
9. using or having ambiguous or allegorical meanings, especially to
elude political censorship
10. _arch._ a monk charged with keeping the hours for services before
the advent of clocks in 1000 A.D.
11. officer in charge of the hoard or collection of property belonging
to the Monastery at Winchester
12. a small purple butterfly native to arid regions of the
southwestern
United States
13. in the Ottoman empire, an overseer of slaves attached to army
units
14. trusting in the intrinsic superiority of one's family or clan
15. a long narrow Persian rug designed for use in a hallway
16. a measure of grain equal to approximately 1000 bushels
17. of, like or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies
18. the lowest point of development or prosperity
19. of, like, or pertaining to dice games
20. an emetic