[Dixonary] Round 1977: BOSE Defs up--time to vote!

[Scott Crom]

Here are 19 definitions for BOSE--and I don't envy you the task
of making choices! Please cast two votes for your favorites,
by 10:00 pm Eastern time, tomorrow (Monday) evening, by public
response to this message.

Enjoy!

1. A thick, toxic solution of powered cerussite, or white lead
(lead carbonate), used to protect the hulls of marine
vessels from Teredo navalis and other ship worms.

2. [Bias-Optimized Sinewave Enhancement] A technique using
staged tunable rectifiers to improve the signal-to-noise
ratio in a communications stream.

3. (_Archaeol._) To test (ground) by noting the sound of
percussion from the blow of a heavy hammer.

4. (adj.) Vulgar, inappropriate; (n.) one who behaves
offensively.

5. Native beer. [Hind. popularized by Rudyard Kipling as
"booze"].

6. A farm shed or lean-to for sheltering tools or implements.

7. To bring to naught, to destroy, to render useless. [obs.]

8. A kind of ruffle or flounce on a woman's dress [M.E.].

9. A kind of mead made with wild honey (also BROSE).

10. A nonsense character invented by Edward Lear.

11. _obs. dial._ A byre [OE bósg].

12. To temper or expose a flaw.

13. To annoy; to irritate.

14. [Hind.] A woodworker.

15. Long chain mail coat.

16. [Ir] A frilly apron.

17. A tea caddy.

18. A purse.

19. Atrophy.

Scott

[France International]

I'll pick 12 and 18 at random.

[Tim B]

5 and 18, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Dave Cunningham]

11 for effort and 19 because I think yu missed the real def.


Dave



On Feb 8, 10:24*am, Scott Crom <cr... (AT) beloit (DOT) edu> wrote:
> Here are 19 definitions for BOSE--and I don't envy you the task
> of making choices! *Please cast two votes for your favorites,
> by 10:00 pm Eastern time, tomorrow (Monday) evening, by public
> response to this message.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> * *1. A thick, toxic solution of powered cerussite, or white lead
> * * * (lead carbonate), used to protect the hulls of marine
> * * * vessels from Teredo navalis and other ship worms.
>
> * *2. [Bias-Optimized Sinewave Enhancement] A technique using
> * * * staged tunable rectifiers to improve the signal-to-noise
> * * * ratio in a communications stream.
>
> * *3. (_Archaeol._) To test (ground) by noting the sound of
> * * * percussion from the blow of a heavy hammer.
>
> * *4. (adj.) Vulgar, inappropriate; (n.) one who behaves
> * * * offensively.
>
> * *5. Native beer. [Hind. popularized by Rudyard Kipling as
> * * * "booze"].
>
> * *6. A farm shed or lean-to for sheltering tools or implements.
>
> * *7. To bring to naught, to destroy, to render useless. [obs.]
>
> * *8. A kind of ruffle or flounce on a woman's dress [M.E.].
>
> * *9. A kind of mead made with wild honey (also BROSE).
>
> * 10. A nonsense character invented by Edward Lear.
>
> * 11. _obs. dial._ A byre [OE bósg].
>
> * 12. To temper or expose a flaw.
>
> * 13. To annoy; to irritate.
>
> * 14. [Hind.] A woodworker.
>
> * 15. Long chain mail coat.
>
> * 16. [Ir] A frilly apron.
>
> * 17. A tea caddy.
>
> * 18. A purse.
>
> * 19. Atrophy.
>
> Scott

[Nancy Shepherdson]

I'll Have 6 and 9 this time.

Nancy

On Feb 8, 9:24*am, Scott Crom <cr... (AT) beloit (DOT) edu> wrote:
> Here are 19 definitions for BOSE--and I don't envy you the task
> of making choices! *Please cast two votes for your favorites,
> by 10:00 pm Eastern time, tomorrow (Monday) evening, by public
> response to this message.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> * *1. A thick, toxic solution of powered cerussite, or white lead
> * * * (lead carbonate), used to protect the hulls of marine
> * * * vessels from Teredo navalis and other ship worms.
>
> * *2. [Bias-Optimized Sinewave Enhancement] A technique using
> * * * staged tunable rectifiers to improve the signal-to-noise
> * * * ratio in a communications stream.
>
> * *3. (_Archaeol._) To test (ground) by noting the sound of
> * * * percussion from the blow of a heavy hammer.
>
> * *4. (adj.) Vulgar, inappropriate; (n.) one who behaves
> * * * offensively.
>
> * *5. Native beer. [Hind. popularized by Rudyard Kipling as
> * * * "booze"].
>
> * *6. A farm shed or lean-to for sheltering tools or implements.
>
> * *7. To bring to naught, to destroy, to render useless. [obs.]
>
> * *8. A kind of ruffle or flounce on a woman's dress [M.E.].
>
> * *9. A kind of mead made with wild honey (also BROSE).
>
> * 10. A nonsense character invented by Edward Lear.
>
> * 11. _obs. dial._ A byre [OE bósg].
>
> * 12. To temper or expose a flaw.
>
> * 13. To annoy; to irritate.
>
> * 14. [Hind.] A woodworker.
>
> * 15. Long chain mail coat.
>
> * 16. [Ir] A frilly apron.
>
> * 17. A tea caddy.
>
> * 18. A purse.
>
> * 19. Atrophy.
>
> Scott

[Toni Savage]

12 and 19 don't sound logical...

-- Toni Savage

[JohnnyB]

For want of anything better #12 and #14 please

JohnnyB

>
> 12. To temper or expose a flaw.
>
>
> 14. [Hind.] A woodworker.
>

[EnDash@aol.com]

I'll chance numbers 3 and 13

-- Dick Weltz


In a message dated 2/8/2009 10:24:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
croms (AT) beloit (DOT) edu writes:


Here are 19 definitions for BOSE--and I don't envy you the task
of making choices! Please cast two votes for your favorites,
by 10:00 pm Eastern time, tomorrow (Monday) evening, by public
response to this message.


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[Judy Madnick]

For no reason:

<< 5. Native beer. [Hind. popularized by Rudyard Kipling as
<< "booze"].

<< 9. A kind of mead made with wild honey (also BROSE).

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[Dodi Schultz]

#9? #18?

--Dodi

[Bill Hirst]

3 and 4 for the vulgar percussive among us.

-Bill

(and 20, because we all know Bose means headphones)

[Daniel B. Widdis]

7 and 15 please.

--
Dan

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 5 and 17.

Guerri

[Christopher Carson]

I'll go for 6 and 11.

Chris

[Tim Lodge]

Scott

_Mujko thori hindi ati hai_ - I know a little Hindi, which I taught
myself for my recent trip to India, but I don't recognise BOSE as
being Hindi - I'll vote for the native beer and the woodworker anyway!

5 and 14 please.

-- Tim L

[Chuck]

Scott -

I'll run with the thirsty crowd on this one -

5. Native beer. [Hind. popularized by Rudyard Kipling as "booze"].

and

9. A kind of mead made with wild honey (also BROSE).

Thanks,

Chuck

[Jim Hart]

If I played golf I think I'd like someone to walk around with me and
serve me tea and perhaps scones, and later I'd need to store my clubs
out of sight in some kind of shed. So I'm voting for 6 and 17.

Jim

[Paul Keating]

Vox pop says it's 10 and 13. But I don't like 10 enough to vote for it. So I
vote for the etymologically plausible 4 and 13, which might even have been
combined: one adj., one n. and one vb.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

[Tony Abell]

The beer and the shed: 5 and 6.

> 5. Native beer. [Hind. popularized by Rudyard Kipling as
> "booze"].

> 6. A farm shed or lean-to for sheltering tools or implements.