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Posted By: wwh cholla - 12/11/02 03:28 PM
cholla pronounced chol ya, or cho ya
n.
5MexSp < Sp, lit., skull, head6 a spiny cactus (genus Opuntia) with cylindrical stems, growing in the SW U.S. and Mexico


Posted By: wwh Re: choragic - 12/11/02 03:33 PM
choragic monuments
Related: European Art

(keraj´ik, -raj´-, ko-) [Gr.,of the choragus, the chorus leader], small
decorative structures erected in ancient Greece to commemorate the victory
of the leader of a chorus in the competitive choral dances. The best known is
that of Lysicrates (c.335 BC), still standing in Athens, a graceful circular
structure showing one of the early uses of Corinthian columns.

Posted By: wwh Re: choralcelo - 12/11/02 03:41 PM
A really worthless word:
the musical instrument called the Choralcelo built in the United States by Melvin L. Severy
and George B. Sinclair . ...

Posted By: wwh Re:chouette - 12/11/02 03:51 PM
La chouette est un oiseau nocturne de l'ordre des rapaces.

La chouette effraie niche dans les clochers, les vieilles granges, les
ruines et dans les troncs d'arbre.

TThe owl, that elegant fowl. Who gives a hoot.

Also, a method of scoring my means of which more than two persons can participate in a
two handed game (such as backgammon) one players accepting the bets of all other players
on the result of a game between himself or herself and one other active player.
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