a. The word used for the attraction until the phrase "Merry-Go-Round" was popularized at the first world's fair.
defined by JosieWales 0 points

b. A wheel in railroad watches that is regulated to oscillate five times per second.
defined by The FallibleFiend 0 points

c. a bacterium found in symbiotic relationship with certain mosses lying above the normal waterline on the beaches of the islands of the Outer Hebrides
defined by dxb 0 points

d. A variety of seaweed predominant in turbulent waters
defined by consuelo 1 point donated by milum

e. A rotating stage or platform
defined by Flatlander 3 points donated by The FallibleFiend, Fiberbabe, Jazzoctopus

f. a whirlpool occuring at the confluence of two rivers
defined by Jazzoctopus 1 point donated by Flatlander

g. A floating mat of thickly woven mosses, rushes, and shrubs that forms across the surface of shallow pools and may shimmy or shake when walked upon. Used to support floating torches in vigils for the dead in ancient Rome.
defined by Wordwind 1 point donated by Annastrophic

h. When Dark Age trade unionists had the clergy post Spartacus as a guard to the gates of Heaven, Devil cults of the time enlisted the antithetical Spagyricus to guard the gates of Hell. Later adherents of dark witchcraft used the word Spagyricus to evoke evil spells.
defined by milum 0 points

i. A Roman word describing art forms found in Egyptian civilisations – typically glassware and bead necklaces in the period 50 BC-100 AD.
defined by Maverick 0 points

j. Biology term: the spiral bacterium found in the digestive tract of cows
defined by belmarduk 3 points donated by boronia, consuelo, bobyoungbalt

k. an alchemist
the correct definition 2 points each to JosieWales, WordWind, tsuwm, W O’N, dxb, chemeng1992, hyla, Rapunzel

l. Byzantine officer in charge of foreign mercenary troops
defined by Bingley 0 points

m. Bread mold
defined by W O’N 0 points

Grovelling apologies to caradea, whose definition was inadvertently omitted. Her definition was: a succinct vitriolic speech. She is fully entitled to demonstrate.

A grand council of hogmasters should be convened to try the prisoner before the bar, one Max Quordlepleen, who admits to having let his eye inadvertently fall on the correct definition and then voting for it. In mitigation, it should be noted that he did confess, thus saving the Crown the expense of sending the hogmasters to New Zealand to investigate his almost unprecedented correct “guess”.


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