Word Game: Language-Related Clues and Lingustic Q&A

[turbo]

Rhymes with a common private-aircraft accessory.

 

[turbo]

Usagee of the weapon was relegated primarily to that of a signaling device in the 18th C.

 

[selfAdjoint]

Usagee of the weapon was relegated primarily to that of a signaling device in the 18th C.

Why don't you just tell us? We should have a rule that if we don't get it after three hints, we declare ourselves stupid and the poser tells the answer.

 

[turbo]

Why don't you just tell us? We should have a rule that if we don't get it after three hints, we declare ourselves stupid and the poser tells the answer.

OK, but you have to come up with the next word.

The word is spontoon. It's a short lance, and its use persisted into the American Revolutionary War, although it certainly wasn't used primarily as a weapon at that late date. (Give me a Brown Bess or a Charleville any day!) I'll try to pick better words in the future.

 

[selfAdjoint]

Okay spontoon - spittoon. Hmmm.

There was an autobiography of an ex-num called "I Leap over the Wall". The word I am thinking of could replace two of the words in that title.

 

[honestrosewater]

Okay spontoon - spittoon. Hmmm.
There was an autobiography of an ex-num called "I Leap over the Wall". The word I am thinking of could replace two of the words in that title.

a bound = a wall / to bound = to leap?

 

[selfAdjoint]

Good answer but bound was not the word I was thinking of. The word is a synonym of one of your definitions, though.

 

[shruth]

A wild shot...
closure = wall
closed=over (finished)
?

 

[turbo]

vault = leap over

 

[selfAdjoint]

vault = leap over

Kee-rekt! A vault is also a kind of wall (one that curves over). Give that man a see-gar and make him give us another word.

 

[turbo]

An amount necessary to make a group or thing whole.

 

[turbo]

The word has a polite-sounding homonym.

 

[turbo]

You may have encountered the adjective form of the noun in plane geometry class.

 

[shruth]

complement?
Damn...i should've put it up at the first clue, but I felt silly about my last attempt!

 

[turbo]

Ta-Dah! You're at bat, shruth! What's your word?

 

[shruth]

A hymn within a hymn?...Ah, well, nearly...its just 'a' letter short!

 

[turbo]

Are you working the psalm/palm thing?

 

[shruth]

Nope. One clue...the shorter word is 7 letters long!

 

[turbo]

Taking a wild swing...psaltery?

 

[siddharth]

How about Chorale/carol?

 

[shruth]

Ok... the smaller word's primarily an aria.

 

[turbo]

Darn! I thought I had it. A hymn book (psalter) inside a stringed instrument (psaltery).

 

[shruth]

Okay...last clue.

The smaller 7 letter word primarily means an italian aria. Drop 'a' letter from its end and prefix it with the inclusive preposition and you are on your way to the bigger word

 

[fuzzyfelt]

incantation?

 

[shruth]

Good job fi...
Your turn to FIddle

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Thanks Shruth, just lucky to get all your good clues.
FIddling away-
This word is derived from 2 O.E. words. The meaning of the word created is about entry to the meaning of things created.

 

[turbo]

Is the word Wisdom?

 

[fuzzyfelt]

nice try
Not wisdom. The first of the O.E. words means inner, step in, entry or threashold, the other word means shape or create. The meaning of the word has been described also as the inner-dwellingness of things, or the meaning they have that lies in a realm beyond subjectivity and objectivity.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

It has much in common with Joyce's 'epiphanies', or Wordsworth's 'spots of time', but the poet who first used the term did so with religious significance.

 

[turbo]

Inspiration?