[Fictionary] PREED ballot

[Jim Moskowitz]

Here are eleven definitions of the word PREED!
Personally, I think they're all winners, but in truth there can be 
only one winner.  So cast your votes, one 2-point vote and one 
1-point vote (with ties being broken by whoever gets the most 2-point 
votes, so I suppose that should be 2-plus-epsilon). Polls are open 
from now until Saturday noon (EDT).   -Jim


preed - adj. - [Appalachian dialect]  Primped, primed.  "He was all 
preed up for the senior prom".

preed - v. (past tense) - Tasted tentatively, sampled.

preed - n. - A rabid squirrel.

preed - n. - A characteristic tic or mannerism indeterminate between 
endearing and intolerable. [Preed v. Preed, 435 U.S. 212, 241 (1928) 
(Holmes, J., dissenting).]

preed - n. - Knitted pants worn under mail armor in the colder months.

preed - n. - In Passerine morphology, where the tail feathers join the body.

preed - v. - (Mackem) To fasten planks to the frame of a ship.

preed - n. - A bit with decorative knobs and side pieces, used for show horses

preed - n. - An accomplice to a pickpocket who pretends to receive 
the stolen item and, if necessary, acts suspicious in order to draw 
attention away from the actual drop recipient.

preed - adj. - Planned, intended

preed - n. - A seed coat (testa) that ruptures at germination, as 
seen in most eudicots.