agist ballot

Ranjit Bhatnagar ranjit at moonmilk.com
Tue Apr 18 19:49:45 EDT 2006


VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!  Wednesday midnight is your new deadline.

On 4/14/06, Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com> wrote:
> OK, let's get those votes in by, oh, next Wednesday morning.
>
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> 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.
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> agist - adj - 1. off-topic; 2. opposing argument or point
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> 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".
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> agist - adv - in a lying position.
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> agist - adj (Biol.) - having a single ear.
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> agist - n - a person who gets things done.  A real "operator".
>
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> agist - prep - downstream and across the river from. "The Walker
> Plantation is agist the old dock."
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> agist - n - an additive which mixes particles quickly, enabling a
> catalyst to work more
> effectively.
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> 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.
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> agist  - n - an only twin.
>
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> agist - adj - off-course by less than 45 degrees.
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> 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."
>



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