<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">2 and 1 point choices please<br><div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>lierne - n. (fr. German) - a ditch on the side of the road.</div><div><div><br></div><div>lierne - n. - an urn used at a crematorium as a repository for miscellaneous ash leavings, to be buried in a grave with a fictional name when full.</div></div><div><br></div><div>lierne - n. (<span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">fr. Middle French, probably from </span><em style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">lier</em><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> to bind, from Latin </span><em style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">ligare</em>) - <span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">a rib in Gothic vaulting that passes from one intersection of the principal ribs to another.</span></div><div><br></div><div>lierne - n. - a tree, <i>Pouteria dahomensis</i>, whose wood is used for building boats in West Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>lierne - n. - in astronomy, the repeated observation of an object each sidereal day. Named for Jean Li<span style="line-height: 19.183332443237305px; ">é</span>rne, an assistant to Charles Messier.</div><div><br></div><div>lierne - n. - the seemingly shaky but highly controlled stroke of the Avignon School was known as the "lierne", after the park where they would gather to draw and argue.</div></div></div></body></html>