New Definitions

From this evening's Dictionary game with Ben, Sam, Mom and Dad. Guess the correct definitions (spelling occasionally corrected). There may be political storms raging and a recession in the offing, but we know what is important here at the Clay Review.

psephology

1. the scientific study of elections

2. study of fakers

3. the first ways of how to use a boat which many people believe was made by Poseidon

4. if someone pollutes the sea too much and it turns acid green.

5. the study of toilet flushing mechanisms

6. the art of seafaring

thar

1. a chinese dragon that symbolizes famine and war

2. younger brother of Thor in Norse mythology

3. seaman's term for "way over there," as in "thar she blows!"

4. structural beams for Roman bridges composed of many layers of limestone block

5. a great glass wall

6. the Indian name of the egg of the great golden eagle

7 a great Indian in Pakistan or India

plectrum

1. a type of fungi that grows fast up cave walls and eats into eggs of birds.

2. electrons that are going through living cells.

3. a lightning bolt

glacis

1. very fancy french glasses

2. a slope tht runs downward from a fortification

3. an acid that they use to melt metals

xylography

1. the process of mapping internal tree sap transportation using an ultrasound scanner

2. the art of making engravings in wood

3. a printing method executed by striking rectangular blocks with impressions

4. a habit of using a xylograph

protamine

1. any of various strongly basic proteins of relativly low molecular weight

2. to pull, force, or move by violent twisting or shaking

3. a building block of amino acids

4. a big wall of glass made by melting two acids and sand together