<div dir="auto">Looks like you didn’t count my vote? But my votes would not have changed the outcome.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:11 AM Ranjit Bhatnagar <<a href="mailto:ranjit@moonmilk.com">ranjit@moonmilk.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-6856879365235279464gmail-:3tn" style="display:block"><div><div>The votes were widely distributed, with no definition taking a strong lead! The winner, with just 4 points and 2 votes, was E's dromedary tribute. There were no votes for the real definition, the deglassification of glass, as provided by the Bullseye Glass Company: <a href="https://www.bullseyeglass.com/what-is-devitrification-or-devit.html" target="_blank">https://www.bullseyeglass.com/what-is-devitrification-or-devit.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Take it away E!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>FRAN: 1+1 = 2<br></div><div>devit (obs.) n. - a placeholder. v. - to hold a place. adj. - describing an object used to hold a place. ex: Remove the devit pin before finishing the seam.</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Pierre: 1 point</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Ziv: 1 point<br></div> <br></div><div><br></div><div>ZIV: 2+1 = 3<br></div><div id="m_-6856879365235279464gmail-:3tp" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px"><div>devit n. a claim to one's own apotheosis, the assertion that one is a god.</div><div style="margin-left:40px">E: Two points. Because we need a word for this. Heck, I may need it myself. And because I see no derivation from classical roots, so, yeah.<span><br></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span>Hutch: Although I don't really believe it's a word, it's a bold claim: 1 point</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.bullseyeglass.com/what-is-devitrification-or-devit.html" target="_blank">BULLSEYE GLASS CO</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devitrification" target="_blank">WIKIPEDIA</a><br></div><div>devit, n. the growth of crystalline structures within or on the surface of glass. ("Vitri" = glass; therefore "devitrification" = the process of becoming un-glasslike).</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Hutch: Mine (picking grapes and grape leaves) was also to de-vit, but viti and
vini both mean grapes and wine (viticulture and viniculture are
synonyms)</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Ziv: I like this etymology, but I can't imagine scientists using clipped words like this</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>LINDA:</div><div><span>devit</span>, v, to reduce the vitamin content of a food by some chemical reaction</div><div style="margin-left:40px">E: The kind of abbrev we get in bad SF.<br>
"The men quickly filled their light-weight thermiteens with<br>
water from the supply in the humidi-hut, fastened their own<br>
plasti-shields securely over head and shoulders, put on their<br>
asbesti-mittens and stepped into the vac-lock."<br>
No, sad to say, I did *not* make that up</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Ziv: Insidious... delicious....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>NICOLAS: 2<br></div><div>devit, adj. Lifelike</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Hutch: Daring a part of speech other than nouns and verbs is always worth points in my book: 2 points</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Ziv: The idea being <i>de vita</i>, I guess? Also a lovely etymology, but why would the <i>a </i>disappear?</div><br></div><div id="m_-6856879365235279464gmail-:3tp" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px"> <div><br></div><div>DAVID: 1<br></div><div>devit - n. - payment to a bouncer to secure entry into a club.</div><div style="margin-left:40px">E: One point. Because I, too, defined it as a bribe.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>E: 2+2 = 4<br></div><div>devit, n. 1. The tribute in dromedaries due from the Arabian pashaliks of the Ottoman Empire. 2. A bribe.</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Jim: 2 points <br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Linda: 2 for the dromedaries<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>HUTCH: 2+1 = 3<br></div><span>devit</span> - v. - (obs.) to pick grapes and harvest grape leaves<div style="margin-left:40px"> E: de + viticulture?</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Pierre: 2 points</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Jim: 1 point<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div><div><br></div><div>PIERRE: 2+1 = 3<br></div><div>devit, n. In some role-playing games, a combination of a buff which directs attacks to a character with a buff that reflects damage done to that character onto the attacker, resulting in the opponent damaging himself.</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Ziv: 2 points for style</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Linda: 1 for the buffs--or bluffs???</div><br></div><div id="m_-6856879365235279464gmail-:3tp" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px"> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Fran Poodry (she/her)</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Oregon, USA</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size:small"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead" style="color:rgb(102,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">Margaret Mead</a></font><br></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>