Round 3022 vote for OPLÜSE

Mike Shefler

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Oct 23, 2019, 10:31:42 AM10/23/19

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Here are 14 lovely definitions for OPLÜSE. Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM, EDT, Thursday, October 24.

1. having curly hair.

2. the sorrow one feels and accepts as necessary in one's life.

3. a superlative-abundance.

4. to present, bring forward or exhibit anything that has been under

cover or in concealment.

5. in Nordic mythology, a sea creature in the shape of a beautiful

woman, said to lure sailors to their death by drowning.

6. a photographic phenomenon that can produce a ghostly image in a

mirror or darkened window.

7. a form of decoration on the stem of a Viking longboat.

8. gorse.

9. a jar.

10. the original convent of a religious community.

11. guelder rose shrub, _viburnum opulus_, [fr Latin opulus, a small tree

used for training vines]

12. a maid of the kaiserin's bedchamber in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

13. [Swed.] fish roe.

14. a function which returns its input as its result.

Dave Cunningham

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Oct 23, 2019, 11:18:57 AM10/23/19

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2 and 14 for no reason at all.

Dave

Tim B

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Oct 23, 2019, 2:50:10 PM10/23/19

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12 and 13, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

Judy Madnick

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Oct 23, 2019, 3:02:44 PM10/23/19

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6. A photographic phenomenon that can that produce a ghostly image in a mirror or darkened window.

and

7. a form of decoration on the stem of a Viking longboat.

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

Efrem G Mallach

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Oct 23, 2019, 4:45:24 PM10/23/19

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I'll go with the old Norse 5 and 7. I don't believe them, but I don't believe any of the others either.

Efrem

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Here are 14 lovely definitions for OPLÜSE. Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM, EDT, Thursday, October 24.

5. in Nordic mythology, a sea creature in the shape of a beautiful woman, said to lure sailors to their death by drowning.

Tim Lodge

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Oct 23, 2019, 5:48:19 PM10/23/19

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1 and 8, please.

1. having curly hair.

8. gorse.

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Shani Naylor

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Oct 23, 2019, 9:08:44 PM10/23/19

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3 & 13 for me.

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Daniel B Widdis

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Oct 23, 2019, 9:22:57 PM10/23/19

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I believe 6 and think 5 is appropriate for the season.

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Debbie

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Oct 24, 2019, 8:07:49 AM10/24/19

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Throws dart.... 2 and 13 please.

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Stephen Dixon

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Oct 24, 2019, 10:30:58 AM10/24/19

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Gimme:

#4 - bring forward

and

#11 - the guelder rose

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nancygoat

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Oct 24, 2019, 11:26:45 PM10/24/19

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I'll take 1 and 6

Nancy

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