agist ballot

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

OK, let's get those votes in by, oh, next Wednesday morning.


agist - n (fr. Czech acronym) - 1. a brand of mayonnaise, produced by
the Czechoslovak state, 1952-1966.  2. (in Czech emigre circles) spoiled
food.  3. (in Czech emigre circles) an informer.


agist - adj - 1. off-topic; 2. opposing argument or point


agist - adj - not having quite the right usage for a word.  "He said
his father was ailing, but that was agist, for there was no diagnosed
ailment, save a slight depression".


agist - adv - in a lying position.


agist - adj (Biol.) - having a single ear.


agist - n - a person who gets things done.  A real "operator".


agist - prep - downstream and across the river from. "The Walker
Plantation is agist the old dock."


agist - n - an additive which mixes particles quickly, enabling a
catalyst to work more
effectively.


agist - vt (Law) - to take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used
originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and
collecting the money for the same.


agist  - n - an only twin.


agist - adj - off-course by less than 45 degrees.




Joke def -- anyone want to guess whose?  a bonus half-point for a
successful guess (except by the author); a quarter point to the author
for each unsuccessful guess!

agist - indicates that the speaker recently or merely perfomed some action.
"Agist got home from work."