[Fictionary] UCALEGON ballot

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

Here we have several incorrect and one correct definitions for the work 
UCALEGON. As usual, submit your two- and one-point guesses, let's say by 
Beethoven's birthday.

Jean-Joseph
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ucalegon - adj. - Performing digestion outside of the body.

ucalegon - n. - The dregs remaining after draining a krater of wine.

ucalegon- n. - neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.

ucalegon - n. - A three-sided French casserole dish, used for cooking 
squash.

ucalegon - n. - A novelty stringed instrument played like a dulcimer in 
the lap or on a table.

ucalegon - n. - in Zakharov's doctrine of Undetectability, the property 
of not being observed.

ucalegon - n. - The part of a parasitic barnacle that wraps around the 
internal organs of the host.

ucalegon - n. - In thermionics, a two-terminal component through which 
heat can flow in only one direction.  (Properly used only of the 
convective heat diode or 'turnstile of Anaxagoras', but commonly applied 
to other designs as well.)
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Additional joke definitions -- do not vote!

UCALEGON - Vanity license plate on the car of ghostbuster Egon Spengler, 
who is proud of his Paraphychics degree from Berkeley.

ucalegon - n. - A polygon with twice as many sides as an ithielegon.

ucalegon - n. - A hypothesized noble gas with atomic number 168.

ucalegon - n. - The odd 5-sided shape of a grass area in the University 
of California that they can't call a quad.
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