REMINDER: HAMBA ballot

[Frances Poodry]

Please don't forget to vote!
-Fran

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From: Frances Poodry <fpoodry at speakeasy.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:42:49 -0400
To: "fictionary at plover.com" <fictionary at plover.com>
Conversation: HAMBA ballot
Subject: HAMBA ballot

Please use one 2-point vote and one 1-point vote to vote among the following
definitions:

Please return your ballot by Friday, June 29, 2007 and I will try to get the
results out on Saturday morning, June 30.

-Fran

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HAMBA ballot:
 
hamba (n.) in ancient Persia and Media, a girl in the harem who refuses to
have sex with the king.
 
 
hamba (n.) [fr. Kirghiz] 1. a large wild boar.  2. a marauder.  3. a
Russian.
 
 
hamba (n.) in the study of Near Eastern literature, the use of
sequentially-applied alphabeticals to refer to otherwise anonymous authors.
>From /hamba/, the first letter of the Persian alphabet.
 
 
hamba (n.) a decorative garland of perennials worn by North Skelton
tradition Morris dancers
 
 
hamba (int.) [fr. Nguni: hambe, go] be off; go away.
 
 
hamba (n.) a voluminous skirt worn in Scandinavian festival dancing.
 
 
hamba (adj.) made insane by jealousy.
 
 
hamba (n.)  any of the species of venomous desert snakes of the lowlands of
Morocco, esp. snakes of family Elaphodae, genus Elapho.
 
 
hamba (n.) 1. a round-bottomed shoe.  2. A type of anti-scald valve.
 
 
hamba (n.) plant waste, for example, by-products from agro-industries such
as production of consumer goods (ex. from beer, paper, fruit juice and
bio-diesel fuel).
 
 
hamba (n.) 1. (Art) [fr. Chimwiini: hamba] a plaiting technique in which
strands undergo the same permutation, repeatedly, until the original
arrangement is repeated  2. (Math.) any element of Sn, the symmetric group
on n letters, whose order is maximal in Sn.  3. (Educ.) a technique of essay
writing in which a  small number of points are repeatedly rearranged so as
to give an exaggerated impression of substance.
 

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Joke Definitions:
 
hamba (n.) [fr. ham + samba] a dance performed by pigs.
 
hamba (n.) (of pigs) the Forbidden Dance.




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