Round 3110 - LORICATE defs up

[Tony Abell]

Find below 14 definitions of loricate, one of which comes from a dictionary. The
remainder come from the fertile imaginations of the players.

Vote for two by way of a public response to this message before the deadline.
You may vote even if you did not submit a definition, but you may NOT vote if you
are disqualified (see the rules at http://www.dixonary.net). The voting deadline
shall be:

Sunday, 01:00am EDT (New York) 11-Oct-2020
Saturday, 10:00pm PDT (San Francisco) 10-Oct-2020
Sunday, 06:00am BST (London) 11-Oct-2020
Sunday, 07:00am CEST (Brussels) 11-Oct-2020
Sunday, 03:00pm AEST (Melbourne) 11-Oct-2020
Sunday 2020-10-11 0500Z


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1. Of or related to false sympathy.

2. Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome. [Obs.]

3. To enclose in or cover with a protecting substance.

4. To apportion something, esp. food, equally.

5. To grind bay-leaves into a powder for cooking [Laurus nobilis).

6. To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel.

7. Tressed in leather; *of a horse:* harnessed.

8. [zool.] Having a specialized brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar.

9. To give an ambiguous or confusing answer to a question.

10. To punish someone by lorication, that is, by restricting their movements to
a limited area, such as within the boundaries of a city, a borough or a
rural district.

11. [Bot.] Of a stem, having multiple vascular bundles.

12. To celebrate a holiday no one else celebrates.

13. To fabricate evidence.

14. To develop intricate tales; mythologise.

[Tim B]

6 and 11, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Daniel B Widdis]

I'm hungry. 4 and 5.

[Dave Cunningham]

7 come 11.  7 is either correct or a typo <g>

Dave

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 5 and 6.

[Debbie]

9 and 14 please

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[amal...@comcast.net]

I'll try 8 and 11.
Alan

[Judy Madnick]

 

11. [Bot.] Of a stem, having multiple vascular bundles. 

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13. To fabricate evidence. 

  

Judy

[Efrem G Mallach]

I reduced the list to manageable size by eliminating definitions that didn't contain a semicolon, thus undoubtedly eliminating the real one. Of the four that contained at least one, I'll vote for 2 and 6.

Efrem

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On Oct 9, 2020, at 10:02 AM, Tony Abell <he...@isanybodyhome.com> wrote:

Find below 14 definitions of loricate, one of which comes from a dictionary.  The remainder come from the fertile imaginations of the players.

Vote for two by way of a public response to this message before the deadline. You may vote even if you did not submit a definition, but you may NOT vote if you are disqualified (see the rules at http://www.dixonary.net). The voting deadline shall be:

Sunday, 01:00am EDT (New York) 11-Oct-2020
Saturday, 10:00pm PDT (San Francisco) 10-Oct-2020
Sunday, 06:00am BST (London) 11-Oct-2020
Sunday, 07:00am CEST (Brussels) 11-Oct-2020
Sunday, 03:00pm AEST (Melbourne) 11-Oct-2020
Sunday 2020-10-11 0500Z

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 2. Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome. [Obs.]

[Shani Naylor]

2 & 6 for me. 

[Tim Lodge]

8 and 10 please.

 8. [zool.] Having a specialized brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar.

10. To punish someone by lorication, that is, by restricting their movements to a limited area, such as within the boundaries of a city, a borough or a rural district.

--  Tim L

[Paul Keating]

3 and 6 are opposites, so it must be one of them.

P