Round 3137 results

[Mike Shefler]

Judy Madnick's polysaccharide wins the deal. Ryan Mcgill is the runner-up and real winner.

1.  a patent medicine in composition similar to laudanum, sold in central

and eastern Europe early in the twentieth century.                            

  Submitter: Amallach                 Votes: 5 & 6        0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

2.  [Japanese] a public servant who administers community funds; a

treasurer, bursar, or tax collector.                                          

  Submitter: Mcgill                   Votes: 5 & 8        0 + 5 =   5

  Voted for by: Madnick; Bourne; Keating; emallach; Cuningham

3.  whimpering.

  Submitter: Dictionary                Vote: N/A                   D2

  Voted for by: Madnick; Abell

4.  a leaflike or scalelike plant part, usually small, sometimes showy or

brightly colored, and located just below a flower, a flower stalk, or         

an inflorescence.                                                             

  Submitter: Embler                   Votes: 6 & 7        0 + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Dixon; Widdis; Naylor

5.  a complex polysaccharide occurring in certain species of mosses.

  Submitter: Madnick                  Votes: 2 & *3*      2 + 6 =   8

  Voted for by: Amallach; Mcgill; Bourne; Keating; Barrs; Naylor

6.  the chemical element that gives Scotch Whisky its 'peaty' flavor.

  Submitter: Dixon                    Votes: 4 & 12       0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Amallach; Embler

7.  an artificial rennin substitute used in cheese making.

  Submitter: Bourne                   Votes: 2 & 5        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Embler

8.  [So called from Wm. Raenin, of Edinburgh, who first proposed it.]

(Opt.) An instrument for experiments in polarization, consisting of a         

rhomb of Iceland spar, which has been bisected obliquely at a certain         

angle, and the two parts again joined with transparent cement, so             

that the ordinary image produced by double refraction is thrown out           

of the field by total reflection from the internal cemented surface,          

and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.              

  Submitter: Widdis                   Votes: 4 & 11       0 + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Mcgill; Barrs; Cuningham

9.  the third sign of the Japanese zodiac.

  Submitter: Keating                  Votes: 2 & 5        0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Fein; emallach

10.  sculptures, usually small, made of volcanic stone.

  Submitter: Fein                     Votes: 9 & 13       0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Abell

11.  a tree-climbing crab found in the Marshall Ialands.

  Submitter: Barrs                    Votes: 5 & 8        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Widdis

12.  the principle protein in corn (maize).

  Submitter: emallach                 Votes: 2 & 9        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Dixon

13.  a sauce prepared from fermented fish, much used by the ancient

Romans; in 16th and 17th centuries recommended (after classical               

writers) as a medicine for horses.                                            

  Submitter: Naylor                   Votes: 4 & 5        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Fein

     No def: Cuningham                Votes: 2 & 8        0 + 0 =   0

     No def: Abell                    Votes: *3* & 10     2 + 0 =   2

[Judy Madnick]

UGH! I was hoping that I didn't guess the correct definition when I saw the votes for my definition coming in.

 

New word shortly.

 

Judy

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Judy,

Your replacement def probably got more votes than your original one, that inadvertently went public, would have.

Efrem

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[Judy Madnick]

Swell. LOL!

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[Ryan McGill]

I had the same feeling, Judy. Which is why I voted for the other vote-getter. Sorry.

Ryan