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Frances Wetzstein
January 26th, 2012, 11:53 AM
I'll vote for 13 and 15 The dessert and the head cloth

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Subject: RE: [Dixonary] OT sort of Round 2276:



Being a DQ I cannot vote. I missed getting in my def because I was in the
hospital all day for annual EGD/EUD on a gastric cardia neoplasm and
subsequent biopsies.



From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Daniel Widdis
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:07 PM
To: Dixonary
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2276: Vote for BOKEH



Seventeen incredibly inventive players have contributed definitions for
BOKEH. Somewhere amidst them is the real definition. Please vote for two
definitions of your choice (preferably those contributed by your fellow
players), by public reply to this message, before deadline, which is 34
hours from now. That's 8:00 AM PST on Friday, January 27, 2012, or 11:00 AM
EST, 16:00 UTC, and some time in Melbourne Saturday morning that nobody
should be awake.



** BOKEH **



1. an ancient Afghan game of horsemanship, in which

opposing teams compete to gain possession of a goat carcass

and pitch it across a goal line

2. a formation at each end of a phalanx of Swiss

'pikemen,' directing every third pike at outward angle

toward the exposed flank

3. a South African stew consisting of springbok (antelope)

meat, vegetables and potatoes

4. a cooling, smooth non-alcoholic beverage drunk in many

mid-east countries

5. _Haitian Creole_ a bunch of herbs used in Voodoo

ceremonies

6. first-fruits, or first-born [Heb _bkr_ to be born first]

7. large marble used in games

8. toilet; outhouse

9. a dolmen

10. an opium pipe

11. a talisman or totem

12. a Malay variety of Arabica coffee

13. a flan-like dessert dish of crushed dates, egg, and

sugar

14. an African antelope, closely related to the eland but

somewhat smaller

15. a distinctively patterned head cloth worn in Western

countries of North Africa

16. a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of

out-of-focus areas of a photographic image

17. a special singer, often a castrato, appointed by the

Sultan of the Ottoman empire to sing the Imperial Anthem

(the _Mahmudiye_)

18. an aboriginal word with several meanings, including:

blessing, a long-lost item or person now found, a good

deed, a horn from a ram, to wake a sleeping person or animal