Round 2128 results

[mshefler]

Three dictionaries gave 3 different definitions for scazon:

Webster - a trochaid tetrameter with protraction in the seventh foot.
OED - a modification of the aimbic trimeter in which a spondee or trochee takes the place of the final aimbus.
Free Online Dictionary - a verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

All seem to agree that a scazon is the same as a choliamb. Wikipedia defines choliamb as:
"iambic trimeter, except that the last cretic is made heavy by the insertion of a longum instead of a brevis.
Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line must be short in limping iambs."

Big help, right? I'll bet you're wishing you had
signed up for an easy course like differential calculus or quantum thermodynamics.

Anyway, Dick Weltz is the next dealer, winning with his heraldry definition,
with the dictionary and Tim Lodge tied for runners-up.

1. a fast, unarmed galliot of two masts.
Submitter: Grieco Votes: 5 & 17 0 + 2 = 2
Voted for by: Carson; Morgan

2. a brass reed instrument in which the pitch is varied by a slide
instead of keys.
Submitter: Hart Votes: *4* & 10 2 + 1 = 3
Voted for by: Cuningham

3. a pustular rash.
Submitter: Schultz Votes: 5 & 15 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Savage

4. a choliamb.
Submitter: Shefler Vote: N/A D5
Voted for by: Hart; Crom; Barrs; Madnick; Widdis

5. an odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion.
Submitter: Crom Votes: *4* & 6 2 + 3 = 5
Voted for by: Grieco; Schultz; Stevens

6. one who embezzles money by means of altering computer programs.
Submitter: Abell Votes: 8 & 12 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Crom

7. a dry moat.
Submitter: Lodge Votes: 9 & 10 0 + 3 = 3
Voted for by: Carson; Morgan; Bourne

8. an incomplete or early basket guard formed by extending the lower
quillon back over the hand but not attaching it to the pommel.
Submitter: Emery Vote: N/V 0 + 2 = 2
Voted for by: Abell; Madnick

9. a kind of hand-drawn cart of Italy.
Submitter: Savage Votes: 3 & 10 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Lodge

10. [Heraldry] to change a coat of arms by removing one or more of the
symbols previously emblazoned on it. Mostly (but infrequently) used
for significant changes in a family's status, affiliations, or
history.
Submitter: Weltz Vote: N/V 0 + 6 = 6
Voted for by: Hart; Lodge; Savage; Stevens; Bourne; Cuningham

11. [Architecture] a stringcourse.
Submitter: Carson Votes: 1 & 7 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Widdis

12. an alternate reality.
Submitter: Stevens Votes: 5 & 10 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Abell

13. [obs. Nav. sl.] to scan the horizon for sails.
Submitter: Barrs Votes: *4* & 14 2 + 0 = 2
Voted for by:

14. the device attached to the shaft of a windmill, which rotates freely,
keeping the blades pointing into the wind.
Submitter: Morgan Votes: 1 & 7 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Barrs

15. a kind of cabbage having crisp almost white leaves.
Submitter: Bourne Votes: 7 & 10 0 + 1 = 1
Voted for by: Schultz

16. (more commonly _ska_) a type of Jamaican music.
Submitter: Cuningham Votes: 2 & 10 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by:

17. one of a series of armour plates that go around the hips like a
skirt.
Submitter: Madnick Votes: *4* & 8 2 + 1 = 3
Voted for by: Grieco

18. a slender flexible rod tipped with a sponge for passing down the
throat and into the oesophagus in order to apply medication or remove
an obstruction.
Submitter: Widdis Votes: *4* & 11 2 + 0 = 2
Voted for by:


[Tim Lodge]

Mike

>> with the dictionary and Tim Lodge tied for runners-up. <<

I think you mean the dictionary and Scott Crom, who got five points
each - I only got three.

-- Tim L

[Dave Cunningham]

Which one had the single word definition in it? I seem to recall that we were to use full definitions in the past and not edit the defs?


Dave

[Paul Keating]

Chambers defines it using a one-word cross-reference.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

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>
> Which one had the single word definition in it? I seem to recall that we
> were to use full definitions in the past and not edit the defs?
>
>
> Dave
>
>

[EnDash@aol.com]

Hoo, boy! Not only didn't I know the word, but I don't know half the words
in the definition.

Nevertheless, I'll have a new word up a bit later this morning.

-- Dick


In a message dated 8/6/2010 9:18:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
stamps (AT) salsgiver (DOT) com writes:

All seem to agree that a scazon is the same as a choliamb. Wikipedia
defines choliamb as:
"iambic trimeter, except that the last cretic is made heavy by the
insertion of a longum instead of a brevis.
Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line must be short in
limping iambs."

Big help, right? I'll bet you're wishing you had
signed up for an easy course like differential calculus or quantum
thermodynamics.

Anyway, Dick Weltz is the next dealer, winning with his heraldry
definition,
with the dictionary and Tim Lodge tied for runners-up.

[France International]

1913 Webster.

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Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Round 2128 results


>
> Which one had the single word definition in it? I seem to recall that we
> were to use full definitions in the past and not edit the defs?
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> --
> Dave Cunningham


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[Dodi Schultz]

Dave Cunningham wrote:

> Which one had the single word definition in it? I seem to recall that we
> were to use full definitions in the past and not edit the defs?
>

It would be helpful, to those who might have missed the earlier message,
for you to quote from it so that players will know what you're talking
about. I assume you're referring to Mike's discussion of the word for
the last round, SCAZON.

Merriam-Webster 1913 unabridged, an accepted dictionary in many previous
rounds, defined it simply as "a choliamb." That's what Mike used in the
defs list for round 2128 (def #4). You can find the reference at
thefreedictionary.com .

Mike's message citing lengthy explanations was discussing definitions of
*choliamb*, not *scazon*.

--Dodi