RUCERVINE results!

[Nora Munoz]

Sorry for the delay in getting the results back to
you.  I had fun putting together my first ever
fictionary ballot.  I was concerend when two ballots
came in that were very close to the actual definition,
and I made the decision to let them stand on the
assumption that the fictionariers didn't really know
the definition and that it would confuse the rest of
you!  (it sort of did...)  So thanks for a fun round,
and I hope to attempt further play so I might actually
have a chance to win again!

After all the voteds were in and the tallies were rung
up, the winner is toot-do-do: Linda with 11 points. 
It was close for a while, but Linda pulled ahead as
more polls reported.  Take it away Linda!
-Nora


RUCERVINE RESULTS

General comments:
Jean-Joseph - Well, I have to use some rationale, so
I'll toss out all "pertaining to" and "wine"
definitions. 
Pierre - Anything pertaining to deer I shall dismiss,
on the ground that someone would have known it.
Hutch - Tough choice! Nothing really stands out as
being *right*; nothing as being *wrong* (except for
moulting angels *LOL*)
Linda - I may have got it wrong, but I can't get the
notion of beer that tastes like civets out of my mind.
Elliott - After looking it up: INDIAN **SWAMP**
DEER??????  There are more things in heaven and earth,
etc....  Sheesh.
Elliott - A friend of mine in college, a classics
major, used to collect English -ine words meaning
"like such-and-such an animal" (murine, equine, etc.).
It was a pretty long list, and seems to have inspired
a lot of people this time:  three deer, one civet, and
one eel.  I can't decide amongst them, so I'll bestow
my points elsewhere.
Eric - I'm ruling out all of the "of or pertaining to"
definitions, because that makes it easier.


rucervine - adj.  Reddish-gold – Fran (3)
JJ - I like this well enough to give it the lone
point.
Ranjit - 1 pt
Hutch - I can picture some mineral named rucer (or
something close) that is that color. 1 point

rucervine - adj.  Of angels, moulting annually
otherwise than at Easter; i.e., deciduous but not
feriate (qqv.). – Elliott (1)
JJ - Pertaining to.  But very interesting.
Pierre - That beats "the landlady's children in all
their instars"! One point. LOL!
Hutch - Angels MOULT?!?!?!?!?!?!
Elliott - I had a hard time wording this one.  Neither
"otherwise" nor "other" sounds right, and there is no
"otherwhen".

rucervine - adj.  Of or pertaining to civets. -
Jean-Joseph (3)
JJ - Pertaining to.  (As well as being mine.)
Pierre - Viverrine.
Hutch - Civets are cats; wouldn't this be feline? Or
at least close?
David - 2 points
Jim - 1 point.  I *have* to acknowledge at least one
of these animal defs!

rucervine - adj.  Of, relating to, or characteristic
of eels. - Jim
JJ - Pertaining to.
Pierre - Anguillid?
Hutch - Hmm, an eel fisherman is a "sniggler" so this
doesn't sound right either.

rucervine - n.  Any public right of way lying entirely
within the sovereign's personal possession [< OF _rue
sevigne_]. – Eric (5)
JJ - Could have gotten points from me.  But it didn't.
Ranjit - 2 pts
Hutch - I don't know French (much), but "sevigne" for
sovereign or king doesn't feel right.
Elliott - One point for creative etymology.
Judith - 2 points

rucervine - adj. 1. Describing any of the members of
family Cervidae who exhibit red coat coloring during
at least part of the year, such as Cervus elpahus, C.
affinis, or C. canadensis. 2. The flavor of beers
manufactured in or near Red Deer County, Alberta,
Canada. - Nicholas
JJ - Pertaining to. (after looking up the actual
definition) Wow, whoever submitted that beer flavor
definition came mighty close!
Pierre - Oh deer! A tpyo!
Hutch - Beer tastes like deer? I mean, they rhyme, but
... ?

rucervine - adj.  Pertaining to or resembling elk or
moose – Judith (2)
JJ - Pertaining to.
Hutch - BJM: "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of
a hat!"
RJS: "Again? But that trick never works."
BJM: "This time for sure!"
The Rocky & Bullwinkle Memorial Award (presented by
the Frostbite Falls Chamber of Commerce and the
Wossamatta University Alumni Association).
Melissa - 2 for the elk, just because the elk sound
more convincing than the civets or the deer

rucervine - adj.  Wall-eyed or cross-eyed – Ranjit (4)
JJ - Hmm.  Not bad.  Would have gotten a vote if I had
any left.
Hutch - In honor of my co-worker, Griz, who is badly
wall-eyed: 2 points.
Eric - Two points.

rucervine - adj.  Relating to the seating arrangements
of guests at a formal affair – Melissa (5)
JJ - Pertaining to.
Fran - 1 point
Pierre - Two points for being the most plausible.
Linda - two points to the seating arrangements
Elliott - From SERVE, maybe?

rucervine - n.  A liqueur distilled from olive leaves
and crabapples, made almost exclusively in the Spanish
village of Roses Vilanova on the Costa Brava. – Hutch
(1)
JJ - Wine, or close enough.
Ranjit - i can't decide whether that would be awful or
tasty!
Hutch - Mine. I was thinking of "grenadine" from
(originally) Grenada.
Linda - one point to the Spanish liquor
Elliott - I want to insert "and consumed" between
"made" and "almost".  Yuck!

rucervine - n. An alkaloid found in wild fresney
(Rucervus tumni, R. luchniensis) and in lesser
quantities in cultivated fresney (R. hortensis). It is
toxic to rabbits. - Pierre
JJ - Sounds like growing fresney alongside your
vegetables would be an excellent idea.
Hutch - I thought fresney was a favorite food of
rabbits. Nothin' here.

rucervine - adj.  Having a recessed opening.  – Linda
(11)
JJ - I like this the best.  Two points.
Fran - 2 points
Melissa - 1 for the recessed opening.
David - 1 point
Elliott - Two points:  one for filling a need, the
other for non-obviousness. (Unless this is a
far-fetched yurt def?)
Jim - 2 points
Eric - One point.

rucervine - n. (fr. med. French) A wine mulled in a
variety of roots. - David
JJ - Wine.
Hutch - Too much like mine
Elliott - Having mulled it over ... sounds icky even
by medieval standards.  No, thanks!

rucervine - adj.  Pertaining to or like Indian swamp
deer. – Hutchinson Encyclopaedia (1)
JJ - Pertaining to.
Hutch - Too much like the "Red Deer County" one below.
Elliott - Marlon Perkins Award for "Indian swamp
deer", but no points.
Judith - 1 point

This definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged
Dictionary (1913) has the etymology : 
Rucervine \Ru*cer"vine\, a. [NL. Rucervus, the genus,
fr. NL. Rusa a certain genus of deer (Malay r?sa deer)
+ Cervus.]  (Zo["o]l.)Of, like, or pertaining to, a
deer of the genus Rucervus, which includes the swamp
deer of India.



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