[Dixonary] Round 3115: LICORN [Definitions]

I'll take 1 and "double" it for 13.

Nancy

On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 6:37:36 PM UTC-5 Paul Keating wrote:

> I can’t now imagine why I set a definition deadline of midnight, but there
> it is.
>
> Here are 14 definitions of licorn, some of which came from a dictionary,
> and one even from a dictionary article about the word licorn. Please
> vote for two of them, in reply to this posting, by the deadline, which is
> 18h00 CET on Thursday 29 October, just under 40 hours from now. Other times
> for other places here
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=4&iso=20201029T16&p1=328>
> .
>
> 1.
>
> a callow youth.
> 2.
>
> a hexagonal paving tile or stone.
> 3.
>
> an obsolete unit of length equal to one-third of an inch.
> 4.
>
> (also: bicorn) a fore-and-aft naval version of a tricorn hat.
> 5.
>
> Russian howitzer, adopted first in 1744 [French licorne ‘unicorn’].
> 6.
>
> a small portable altar, carried by Roman legions on their campaigns;
> mentioned in Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, book 6.
> 7.
>
> a licorn is a term in the business world to indicate a privately held
> startup company valued at over $50 billion (see unicorn)
> 8.
>
> a mythical creature with the head and body of a lion, trunk and tusks
> of an elephant, the comb of a rooster, and the wings of a bird.
> 9.
>
> a style of painting characterized by heavy layering of pigment and
> precise removal of areas, creating a dimensional image.
> 10.
>
> Bot. a genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the
> cornucopia in form.
> 11.
>
> the metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store.
> 12.
>
> of or relating to divination using the entrails of a goat.
> 13.
>
> a short-neck stringed instrument similar to a lute.
> 14.
>
> around the corner.
>
>
>

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