[Dixonary] Round 3113 LABARUM Defs - Vote Now

Here are 15 defs of the word LABARUM, one of which came from my dictionary
and the rest are the products of your collective imagination. Please vote
for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline
of:

09:00 BST on Thursday 22nd Octoberer, which is:
10:00 CET
08:00 GMT/UTC
4:00 AM EDT
1:00 AM PDT
20:00 NZST in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've
voted.

-- Tim L

*** LABARUM ***

1. lubricant.

2. the big toe.

3. a boy; a poor sort of man.

4. a large chamber in a cavern.

5. a sound warning of danger; a commotion.

6. an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects.

7. a Roman deep raised bath with wide lip to sit upon.

8. [Lat.] a partial clerestory, as on the Pantheon in Rome.

9. [med. Latin] the condition of constant work or toil; oppression.

10. a flowering shrub native to southern Europe, typically growing about
3'/1m tall.

11. a small chamber between the tepidarium and the frigidarium in a Roman
bath house.

12. a catalytic compound used to aid adhesion and maintain pronounced
layers when folding and smithing ferrous metals.

13. a small gripping tool for adjusting the fly-wheel mechanism on watches
and, sometimes, in other fine jewelry repair work.

14. traditionally a cellar or storage room, often vaulted, commonly built
in England and Scotland throughout the thirteenth and early fourteenth
centuries.

15. the imperial standard of Constantine the Great ( a.d. 306–337), which
bore military symbols of the Roman Empire fused with Christian symbolic
imagery (in later representations generally the Christogram (☧)); (hence
more generally) any standard or banner. Also occasionally: the Christogram
itself.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/di...oglegroups.com.