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Tim Lodge
October 11th, 2011, 11:06 AM
I misallocated Steve Dixon's second vote to 9 instead of 19 - the
revised results below reflect that. It puts Johnny Barrs level with
Mike Shefler with 4 unnatural points. Fortunately Mike is just ahead
of Johnny in the rolling scores, so he is still the dealer for Round
2247.

-- Tim L

1: a slipper.
Voted for by: Millie Morgan
FROM Chris Carson who voted 6 and 9, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

2: to talk nonsense.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Tim Bourne who voted 5 and 7, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

3: [Obs. rare.] A giraffe.
Voted for by: Johnny Barrs, Mike Shefler, Dave Cunningham, Nancy
Shepherdson, Dan Widdis
FROM Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed 1989 which can't vote, and
scores D5

4: [Obs.] a barge of state.
Voted for by: Michael Harrington, Mike Shefler, Dodi Schultz
FROM Millie Morgan who voted 1 and 17, and scores 3 + 0 = 3

5: to involve in toilsome labor.
Voted for by: Tim Bourne
FROM Paul Keating who didn't vote, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

6: an attractive style or manner.
Voted for by: Chris Carson
FROM Guerri Stevens who voted 7 and 18, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

7: to speak indistinctly; mumble.
Voted for by: Guerri Stevens, Tim Bourne, Steve Graham
FROM Tony Abell who didn't vote, and scores 3 + 0 = 3

8: a glass blower's cast-offs or slag.
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Steve Dixon
FROM Michael Harrington who voted 4 and 16, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

9: a small purse for special occasions.
Voted for by: Chris Carson, Dan Widdis
FROM Chuck Emery who didn't vote, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

10: (Phil.) metacriticism; critique of forms.
Voted for by: Keith Hale
FROM Nancy Shepherdson who voted *3* and 13, and scores 1 + 2 = 3*

11: birdsong, esp. the song of the nightingale.
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham
FROM Dodi Schultz who voted 4 and 18, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

12: speech or writing full of bitter condemnation.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Judy Madnick who voted 8 and 13, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

13: a trumpet sounded in Mecca to announce the beginning of the Hajj.
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Nancy Shepherdson
FROM Mike Shefler who voted *3* and 4, and scores 2 + 2 = 4*

14: an ancient game with thrown bones or stones, dating back before
dice.
Voted for by: Johnny Barrs
FROM Keith Hale who voted 10 and 20, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

15: a bird of New Guinea, with drab plumage, noted for its loud mating
call.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Dave Cunningham who voted *3* and 11, and scores 0 + 2 = 2*

16: a poroous fabric used for bags designed to hoist bulk fruit for
shipment.
Voted for by: Michael Harrington
FROM Steve Graham who voted 7 and 19, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

17: a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for
flogging prisoners.
Voted for by: Millie Morgan
FROM Dan Widdis who voted *3* and 9, and scores 1 + 2 = 3*

18: a decorative button, brooch or clasp usually round and depicting a
flower-like pattern.
Voted for by: Guerri Stevens, Dodi Schultz
FROM Steve Dixon who voted 8 and 19, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

19: 1: a soft wool-silk cloth usually used for scarves, cravats, etc.
2: hence a scarf or muffler.
Voted for by: Steve Graham, Steve Dixon
FROM Johnny Barrs who voted *3* and 14, and scores 2 + 2 = 4*

20: one of the minute pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through
which gases and water vapor pass.
Voted for by: Keith Hale
FROM Dick Weltz who didn't vote, and scores 1 + 0 = 1