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Bill Hirst
July 23rd, 2005, 06:21 PM
Here are the details of who did what, and as usual, all errors are my
fault. It's all yours, Paul.

-Bill

1. Gradual dripping.
Submitter: Wayne Scott Votes: 15 & 21 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Chris Carson

2. A disease of the spine.
Submitter: Toni Savage Votes: *3* & 4 2 + 0 = 2
Voted for by:

3. A spasm in the throat causing stutter.
Submitter: Dictionary Vote: N/A D8
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham; Lenny Goran; Tim Bourne; Paul
Keating; Toni Savage; Scott Crom; Russ Heimerson; Dan Widdis

4. A tossing, twitching or jerking of the body; a false claim.
Submitter: Russ Heimerson Votes: *3* & 15 2 + 3 = 5
Voted for by: Judy Madnick; Mike Shefler; Toni Savage

5. A cramp or spasm in the calf muscle (Colloq. charlie horse).
Submitter: Mike Shefler Votes: 4 & 16 0 + 2 = 2
Voted for by: Barbara Kryvko; Tony Abell

6. The act of sending a case from appellate court back to trial
court.
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 4 & 9 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Barbara Kryvko

7. The science or art of engraving microscopic inscriptions, often
inside rings.
Submitter: Scott Crom Votes: *3* & 15 2 + 0 = 2
Voted for by:

8. A sculpting technique of building up a bas-relief from layers of
a soft plaster.
Submitter: Tim Lodge Votes: 9 & 21 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by:

9. An onomatopoetic word coined by Rudyard Kipling to describe the
sounds of battle.
Submitter: Nancy Shepherdson Votes: 19 & 21 0 + 2 = 2
Voted for by: Judy Madnick; Tim Lodge

10. The act of spitting out or spraying particles of saliva while
speaking forcefully.
Submitter: Dan Widdis Votes: *3* & 15 2 + 4 = 6
Voted for by: Hugo Kornelis; Chris Carson; Dodi Schultz; Carolyn
Mayer

11. An invariably fatal disease of horses caused by renal paralysis;
Garner's syndrome.
Submitter: Dodi Schultz Votes: 10 & 13 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Tony Abell

12. [Medicine] A minimally-invasive procedure, developed in 1987, to
remove the gall bladder.
Submitter: Guerri Stevens Votes: 15 & 21 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by:

13. The process by which water is exuded from the leaves of a plant
as a result of root pressure.
Submitter: Chris Carson Votes: 1 & 10 0 + 2 = 2
Voted for by: Dodi Schultz; Frances Wetzstein

14. The noise made when someone uses a big fat belly (one's own or
some consenting other) as a drum.
Submitter: Carolyn Mayer Votes: 10 & 21 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Hugo Kornelis

15. The reflexive tightening of tracheal muscles near the larynx
that is associated with strong emotion.
Submitter: Tony Abell Votes: 5 & 11 0 + 8 = 8
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham; Tim Bourne; Paul Keating; Wayne
Scott; Guerri Stevens; Scott Crom; Russ Heimerson; Dan Widdis

16. Architecture. One of a series of small ornaments in the shape
of truncated cones used on a Doric entablature.
Submitter: Barbara Kryvko Votes: 5 & 6 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Mike Shefler

17. The process of making long narrow excavations in the ground by
digging; i.e. ditches for laying pipe and wires.
Submitter: Frances Wetzstein Votes: 13 & 21 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by:

18. A term applied to those laws which are imposed on us from
without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or
desires.
Submitter: Lenny Goran Votes: *3* & 21 2 + 0 = 2
Voted for by:

19. [Med.] A syndrome in which the lower jaw is lowered and does not
meet the upper jaw, usually due to malformation of the
transmandibular joint.
Submitter: Dave Cunningham Votes: *3* & 15 2 + 1 = 3
Voted for by: Nancy Shepherdson

20. A pseudo-Latin term for tetanus (or lockjaw), invented by the
standup comedian Steve Harvey. "After my wife left me, the only
thing I had was my gutturotetany!"
Submitter: Hugo Kornelis Votes: 10 & 14 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by:

21. A technique among opera singers of lowering the larynx so as to
produce the "singers' formant" [L. _guttus_ throat + _tetanus_
stretched, fm Gk _tetanos_, fm _teinein_ to stretch].
*Next Dealer: Paul Keating Votes: *3* & 15 2 + 7 = 9
Voted for by: Lenny Goran; Tim Lodge; Wayne Scott; Nancy
Shepherdson; Guerri Stevens; Frances Wetzstein; Carolyn Mayer

No def: Tim Bourne Votes: *3* & 15 2 + 0 = 2