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Here are the definitions for this round. Please submit your one and
two point votes. We'll set the voting deadline as 6 PM EDT next
Saturday (March 22)<br>
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Jean-Joseph<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - A young, good cook.<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - A meal of wild mushrooms.<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - A child significantly younger than all
of its siblings.
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stepmother's blessing - n. - A callus or corn on the dorsal side of
fingers or toes.<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - 1) A hangnail, 2) Queen Anne's lace (<i>Anthriscus
sylvestris</i>).<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - Colloquial phrase meaning "all of the
benefits without the difficult parts".<br>
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Stepmother's Blessing - n. - A patented grafted strawberry combining
disease-tolerant rootstock with long-bearing crown.<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - (Perl) The act of blessing an object
into a class other than that of its original constructor.
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stepmother's blessing - n. - A plant, <i>Plantago echinosa</i>,
introduced to New Zealand as sheep fodder, but which turned out to
be a noxious weed.<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - In Bavaria and other regions of
southern Germany, a rose bush or other flowering shrub planted on
the grave of a woman who died in childbirth.<br>
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stepmother's blessing - n. - When a stepmother stops being afraid of
taking care of children not her own by birth and decides to love
them, that is a blessing indeed. With so many mythologically and
psychologically derogatory messages about wicked stepmothers, and
even taboos against mothers-in-law, a stepmother's blessing is a
healing and nurturing action when you might be expecting the
opposite. <br>
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