[Dixonary] Round 2205 MARAL defs - time to vote

[Millie Morgan]

Here is a select selection for you ...
just 16 definitions for MARAL, including just one from a dictionary.

New players are welcome, even if they didn't enter a definition this round.
Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/dixonary-rules

Please send your votes for two by public reply to this message before the
deadline:

10am Sat 14/5 Melbourne EST
5pm Fri 13/5 PDT
7pm Fri 13/5 CDT
8pm Fri 13/5 EDT
1am Sat 14/5 BST
2am Sat 14/5 CEST


Best wishes
Millie
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* MARAL *

1: seaweed; kelp

2: unnatural pallor

3: A strong dark tobacco

4: Having many small teeth

5: [Sp.] relating to the sea

6: the Babylonian underworld

7: withering, decaying, wasting

8: Pertaining to the planet Mars

9: a small body of brackish water

10: [culin.] chestnut and morel stuffing

11: the wrest plank on a harpsichord q.v.

12: a newborn wallaby not yet being able to leave its mother's pouch

13: A red deer of the rare subspecies (Cervus elaphus maral), found in Asia
Minor and the Caucasus

14: The leopard-spermophile, also known as the squinney or thirteen-lined
ground squirrel (_Ictidomys tridecemlineatus_)

15: a habitat, usually mountainous, commonly subject to freezing
temperatures for more than half of the year, and in which few plants can
grow

16: a large food fish of South East Asian coastal waters, _Arripis trutta_,
that is greenish grey to silvery underneath and spotted with brown:
resembles a salmon, but is in fact a marine perch.

[Judy Madnick]

Well, I narrowed it down to four (probably all wrong!) and will vote for these two:

<< 11: the wrest plank on a harpsichord q.v.

<< 16: a large food fish of South East Asian coastal waters,
<< _Arripis trutta_,
<< that is greenish grey to silvery underneath and spotted with
<< brown:
<< resembles a salmon, but is in fact a marine perch.

Judy Madnick

[—Keith Hale—]

Ah. Um. Well.

I will select numbers 9 & 12, and thanks for dealing, Millie!

9: a small body of brackish water
> 12: a newborn wallaby not yet being able to leave its mother's pouch
>

[France International]

15 and 16 for me this time.

[Tim B]

5 and 9, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Dodi Schultz]

Hm. We seem to have an increasing number of nonparticipants. That should
make selection easier. Hah! I don't even know what some of the words in
some of these definitions mean.

Pure guesswork here:

> 3: A strong dark tobacco

and

> 11: the wrest plank on a harpsichord q.v.

—Dodi

[Dave Cunningham]

3 and 14 to keep my losing streak active


Dave

On May 12, 10:00*am, "Millie Morgan" <milliemmor... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> Here is a select selection for you ...
> just 16 definitions for MARAL, including just one from a dictionary.
>
> New players are welcome, even if they didn't enter a definition this round.
> Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules can be found athttp://tinyurl.com/dixonary-rules
>
> Please send your votes for two by public reply to this message before the
> deadline:
>
> 10am Sat 14/5 Melbourne EST
> * 5pm Fri *13/5 PDT
> * 7pm Fri *13/5 CDT
> * 8pm Fri *13/5 EDT
> * 1am Sat *14/5 BST
> * 2am Sat *14/5 CEST
>
> Best wishes
> Millie
> ---------------------------------------
>
> * MARAL *
>
> *1: seaweed; kelp
>
> *2: unnatural pallor
>
> *3: A strong dark tobacco
>
> *4: Having many small teeth
>
> *5: [Sp.] relating to the sea
>
> *6: the Babylonian underworld
>
> *7: withering, decaying, wasting
>
> *8: Pertaining to the planet Mars
>
> *9: a small body of brackish water
>
> 10: [culin.] chestnut and morel stuffing
>
> 11: the wrest plank on a harpsichord q.v.
>
> 12: a newborn wallaby not yet being able to leave its mother's pouch
>
> 13: A red deer of the rare subspecies (Cervus elaphus maral), found in Asia
> Minor and the Caucasus
>
> 14: The leopard-spermophile, also known as the squinney or thirteen-lined
> ground squirrel (_Ictidomys tridecemlineatus_)
>
> 15: a habitat, usually mountainous, commonly subject to freezing
> temperatures for more than half of the year, and in which few plants can
> grow
>
> 16: a large food fish of South East Asian coastal waters, _Arripis trutta_,
> that is greenish grey to silvery underneath and spotted with brown:
> resembles a salmon, but is in fact a marine perch.

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try:

> *7: withering, decaying, wasting
>
> 15: a habitat, usually mountainous, commonly subject to freezing
> temperatures for more than half of the year, and in which few plants can
> grow

-- Tim L

[EnDash@aol.com]

I will try numbers 7 and 15.



7: withering, decaying, wasting


15: a habitat, usually mountainous, commonly subject to freezing
temperatures for more than half of the year, and in which few plants can
grow


-- Dick Weltz

[Christopher Carson]

Millie,

That is a list from which I can discern no clue at all so I'm going to use
the venerable old Dixonary utility RAND to generate my votes:

Numbers 5 and 9

Old timers will recognize RAND, which incidentally wouldn't run under the 64
bit version of Win7. RAND was a little program that Russ Heimerson wrote in
Turbo Pascal. It takes the number of defs and randomizes two numbers from
the range of defs.

Chris

[Steve Graham]

11 and 14 for creativity, please

Steve Graham

11: the wrest plank on a harpsichord q.v.

14: The leopard-spermophile, also known as the squinney or thirteen-lined
ground squirrel (_Ictidomys tridecemlineatus_)

[Matthew]

My votes go to:

2: unnatural pallor

and

5: [Sp.] relating to the sea

--Matthew Grieco

[Tim Lodge]

Chris

Just as a bit of fun (and a programming exercise) I've put a version
of RAND on a page on my website at:

http://www.timlodge.co.uk/dixonary/phpRand.php

Windows 7 users are welcome to use it!

-- Tim L

On May 12, 7:24*pm, Christopher Carson <clcar... (AT) live (DOT) com> wrote:
> Millie,
>
> That is a list from which I can discern no clue at all so I'm going to use
> the venerable old Dixonary utility RAND to generate my votes:
>
> Numbers 5 and 9
>
> Old timers will recognize RAND, which incidentally wouldn't run under the 64
> bit version of Win7. *RAND was a little program that Russ Heimerson wrote in
> Turbo Pascal. *It takes the number of defs and randomizes two numbers from
> the range of defs.
>
> Chris

[Chris Carson]

Nice! I've bookmarked the page for future reference. Thanks.

CC

Sent from my iPhone

On May 12, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Tim Lodge <5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Chris
>
> Just as a bit of fun (and a programming exercise) I've put a version
> of RAND on a page on my website at:
>
> http://www.timlodge.co.uk/dixonary/phpRand.php
>
> Windows 7 users are welcome to use it!
>
> -- Tim L
>
> On May 12, 7:24 pm, Christopher Carson <clcar... (AT) live (DOT) com> wrote:
>> Millie,
>>
>> That is a list from which I can discern no clue at all so I'm going to use
>> the venerable old Dixonary utility RAND to generate my votes:
>>
>> Numbers 5 and 9
>>
>> Old timers will recognize RAND, which incidentally wouldn't run under the 64
>> bit version of Win7. RAND was a little program that Russ Heimerson wrote in
>> Turbo Pascal. It takes the number of defs and randomizes two numbers from
>> the range of defs.
>>
>> Chris
>

[MICHAEL HARRINGTON]

My votes are for #12 and #13 only because I like animals and have no idea
which is correct.

-----Original Message-----
From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Millie Morgan
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:01 AM
To: Dixonary (group)
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2205 MARAL defs - time to vote

Here is a select selection for you ...
just 16 definitions for MARAL, including just one from a dictionary.

New players are welcome, even if they didn't enter a definition this round.
Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/dixonary-rules

Please send your votes for two by public reply to this message before the
deadline:

10am Sat 14/5 Melbourne EST
5pm Fri 13/5 PDT
7pm Fri 13/5 CDT
8pm Fri 13/5 EDT
1am Sat 14/5 BST
2am Sat 14/5 CEST


Best wishes
Millie
---------------------------------------

* MARAL *

1: seaweed; kelp

2: unnatural pallor

3: A strong dark tobacco

4: Having many small teeth

5: [Sp.] relating to the sea

6: the Babylonian underworld

7: withering, decaying, wasting

8: Pertaining to the planet Mars

9: a small body of brackish water

10: [culin.] chestnut and morel stuffing

11: the wrest plank on a harpsichord q.v.

12: a newborn wallaby not yet being able to leave its mother's pouch

13: A red deer of the rare subspecies (Cervus elaphus maral), found in Asia
Minor and the Caucasus

14: The leopard-spermophile, also known as the squinney or thirteen-lined
ground squirrel (_Ictidomys tridecemlineatus_)

15: a habitat, usually mountainous, commonly subject to freezing
temperatures for more than half of the year, and in which few plants can
grow

16: a large food fish of South East Asian coastal waters, _Arripis trutta_,
that is greenish grey to silvery underneath and spotted with brown:
resembles a salmon, but is in fact a marine perch.

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 7 and 10.

Guerri

Millie Morgan wrote:
>
> 7: withering, decaying, wasting
>
> 10: [culin.] chestnut and morel stuffing

[Dodi Schultz]

Chris Carson wrote:
> Nice! I've bookmarked the page for future reference. Thanks.
>

How really weird!

The above, sent yesterday afternoon in response to a note from Tim Lodge
(which I received yesterday afternoon), just arrived in my mailbox.
About 19 or 20 hours later. (It was at the GoogleGroups site yesterday.)

The Lord and the Internet work in mysterious ways.

—Dodi

[Tony Abell]

12 and 14, the latter for sheer nerve.

> 12: a newborn wallaby not yet being able to leave its mother's pouch

> 14: The leopard-spermophile, also known as the squinney or thirteen-lined
> ground squirrel (_Ictidomys tridecemlineatus_)

[Chuck]

Millie -

An interesting list. I'd like -

9: a small body of brackish water

and

11: the wrest plank on a harpsichord q.v.

after which I need a wrest.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Dodi Schultz]

Chris's earlier Thursday message, his vote in this round, has *now*
reached my mailbox.

Weird. Really weird. For some reason, his messages (and only his) were
detained overnight and then some.

—Dodi

[Chris Carson]

That is strange. Nothing has changed on my end, as far as I know, but I've also noticed the lag on my last 3 or 4 messages.

Chris

Sent from my iPhone

On May 13, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org> wrote:

>
> Chris's earlier Thursday message, his vote in this round, has *now* reached my mailbox.
>
> Weird. Really weird. For some reason, his messages (and only his) were detained overnight and then some.
>
> —Dodi
>
>