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The word is wittol and the definitions are:
1 - The ceremonial drink taken before saxon council meetings. It was similar to mead, but only mildly alcoholic, and was designed to promote harmony and wisdom in the meetings.
2 - Hydronitrous acid (H2N)
3 - A pleated panel attached at the upper back bodice on an 18th Century woman's dress, usually extending to the hemline or creating a small train.
4 - An adjustable pole connected to the clew of the jib and the mast to hold the sail away from the mast when going downwind
5 - Any of various objects used by the Druids for purposes of divination; a Druidic oracle.
6 - Forerunner of "with all". Was used to end sentences, as in, "I object, your Grace, wittol". Was understood in former times to include whatever was appropriate. Here, "with all due respect".
7 - A large, grassy plain in the mountains; a plateau
8 - A stupid person, person with no wits, not even a half-wit
9 - A leaping, homopterous insect, the young of which form a frothy mass of liquid on plant stems.
10 - A type of boomerang used only in Tasmania.
11 - A type of pond reed, similar to sedge.
12 - A soft and aromatic Peruvian wood burned as incense
13 - A husband who accepts his wife's infidelity.
14 - A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda.
15 - The fee paid to be taught the secret knowledge of medieval guilds. (roughly equivalent to today's student loans?)
16 - An undershot water wheel with buckets fixed to its rim, used to raise water from a stream, especially in primitive irrigation systems
17 - The mounds of regurgitated earth that nightcrawlers leave at the surface of their holes.
Please post votes as responses to this post - I will pick others up but it makes it easier for me. By Thursday 14:00 GMT, OK?
This is my last Hogwash for a while (I am away for a while) so who wants the baton?
By the way, LIRIPOOP (in its LIRIPIPE variation) appeared in this weekend's Sunday Torygraph General Knowledge Crossword. The friends I was staying with were astounded I knew it.
Good Luck - Rod
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I'll go for no. 8.
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Another fine mess you've got us in to - hm, I like 3, but darn, Max - now *I'll have to go for number 8 as well 
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>who wants the baton?
obviously, by precedent, it should go to the new points leader: squid.
edit: thanks for eliminating 3, max. and 8 reads like something that bingley or mav made up....
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I like 11, but I'm going with 16
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