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Not many definitions submitted for this round.
a. the practice of removing spikes, as from garden plants.
b. the act of removing a deacon or sexton from office
c. marriage custom found in certain African and Pacific tribes where the preferred wife for a man is his mother's brother's daughter
d. the practice of divining the future by examining the entrails of sacrificed animals.
e. n. in time of war, leadership by a government-in-exile
f. the altered mental condition induced by hallucinogens.
Definitions were submitted by AnnaS, bingley, flatlander, maahey, sjmaxq, wofahulicodoc. The sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed that there are six definitions and six entrants. One definition was so close to the true definition that I have amalgamated the two.
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JFTR, I sent this to tsuwm when I got home last night:
g. externally spicy; internally bland.
oh, well...sorry, Bing.
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D...only because sacrificed animal entrails are easier to amalgamate than most things, eh, Bingley? 
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I say "B", too.
BINGO!!!
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FWIW - I would have submitted "The momentary lack of or interruption in speech due to a distraction".
Does anyone have a *real word for this?
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A very noisy vote, this one, nothing but decibels.
I'll contribute another d.
Now - making a wordpost of this - why doesn't it end in "-acy"? Most government forms (democracy, aristocracy), or other practices of variable nefariosity (diplomacy, indelicacy, lunacy), end in -acy. The only words I can think of offhand that verge on having an -icy suffix are hypocrisy and apostasy, and those are close-but-no-cigar, even if some think they may be thematically related...
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I B with the Bangalore Babe on this one. 
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