Tim Lodge
August 31st, 2005, 03:46 AM
Here we are, then, folks - 21 imaginative defs of the word
CRIPPAWN. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in
reply to this one), before the deadline of:
19:00 BST on Thursday 1st September, which is
18:00 UTC/GMT
2:00 PM EDT and
11:00 AM PDT, all on the same day.
New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious,
are at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/coryphaeus/files/Game%
20Rules%20and%20Advice%20for%20Players/
Happy choosing!
-- Tim L
1: a slut [Orig. unk.]
2: a disease of cattle.
3: a small basket [O.E.]
4: [N Eng dialect] bread and dripping.
5: _Scot._ crooked or twisted; misshapen.
6: a staff or long cudgel used for support.
7: the distorted head of ergot-infected rye.
8: a playing piece in the board game of Crips.
9: a mass of seaweed, esp. as a hazard to boating.
10: a variety of salt-water barnacle found in tropical waters.
11: a scoring peg for a cribbage board [_crib_ 'cribbage' + _pawn_]
12: a fungus of dead or dying trees; whitish-green in colour when
mature.
13: flabby bottom-dwelling fishes that occur in deep waters around
the world.
14: a poisonous shellfish, resembling a crab, found in northern
South America.
15: a cold-water crustacean of the northern Pacific, similar to the
langouste.
16: _Br. sl._ the Host at a Mass (fr. _Christi Panus_, lit. _bread
of Christ_)
17: a textured finish applied to dry-wall construction to cover
joint tape, etc.
18: an elaborately carved piece of furniture, especially a highboy
or a sideboard.
19: an insect repellent, much used in southeastern Asia, having as
its main ingredients capsicum and oil of cloves.
20: an obsolete move in chess in which the king and a diagonally
adjacent pawn in their original positions trade places.
21: the dried unripe berry of a tropical shrub _Piper cubeba_ of the
pepper family that was formerly used medicinally when powdered for
its effect on mucous membranes especially as a urinary antiseptic
and in chronic bronchitis.
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CRIPPAWN. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in
reply to this one), before the deadline of:
19:00 BST on Thursday 1st September, which is
18:00 UTC/GMT
2:00 PM EDT and
11:00 AM PDT, all on the same day.
New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious,
are at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/coryphaeus/files/Game%
20Rules%20and%20Advice%20for%20Players/
Happy choosing!
-- Tim L
1: a slut [Orig. unk.]
2: a disease of cattle.
3: a small basket [O.E.]
4: [N Eng dialect] bread and dripping.
5: _Scot._ crooked or twisted; misshapen.
6: a staff or long cudgel used for support.
7: the distorted head of ergot-infected rye.
8: a playing piece in the board game of Crips.
9: a mass of seaweed, esp. as a hazard to boating.
10: a variety of salt-water barnacle found in tropical waters.
11: a scoring peg for a cribbage board [_crib_ 'cribbage' + _pawn_]
12: a fungus of dead or dying trees; whitish-green in colour when
mature.
13: flabby bottom-dwelling fishes that occur in deep waters around
the world.
14: a poisonous shellfish, resembling a crab, found in northern
South America.
15: a cold-water crustacean of the northern Pacific, similar to the
langouste.
16: _Br. sl._ the Host at a Mass (fr. _Christi Panus_, lit. _bread
of Christ_)
17: a textured finish applied to dry-wall construction to cover
joint tape, etc.
18: an elaborately carved piece of furniture, especially a highboy
or a sideboard.
19: an insect repellent, much used in southeastern Asia, having as
its main ingredients capsicum and oil of cloves.
20: an obsolete move in chess in which the king and a diagonally
adjacent pawn in their original positions trade places.
21: the dried unripe berry of a tropical shrub _Piper cubeba_ of the
pepper family that was formerly used medicinally when powdered for
its effect on mucous membranes especially as a urinary antiseptic
and in chronic bronchitis.
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