Bovarism it is.

Great! That's possibly because of my love of tsuwm's site.

The next definition:

An unsupported, dogmatic assertion (I love this word because those 'dogmatic assertions' are so common.)

If it's "dog-matic," it must ba an "arf-orism."

Close, but no cigar.

[Well, not that close, either!]

I thought that ipsedixitism was when a woman named Dixie suffered an Electra complex.

Asa, I can see why your daffynitions are so good in the Bluffing game!

Yep, arnie got it! Your turn.

Now, isn't that a nice word?

Here's the next definition:

(v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.
(v. t.) To offend; to shock.
(v. t.) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.

Regrate?

In the process of looking, I found a good reference that I will post in the Links for Linguaphiles thread.

Regrate it is, Kalleh.

An interesting word, with some intriguingly varied definitions.

Yes, arnie, that is an interesting word. I hadn't known it. Is it related to "ingrate?"

Here is my definition:

"A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing."

A kerf, perhaps? No, that's a Northern Iraqi.

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Is it related to "ingrate?"

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Nope. Regrate means "to scrape again". It come from Old French gratter "to scrape".

Ingrate means "not grateful" and it comes from the Latin gratus, "grateful, pleasing".

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A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing."

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Did you by any chance find kerf while trying to find crenation earlier?

Definitely KERF. If you had something else in mind, then there's a synonym, but it's still kerf.

PS. How about the "inverse" of kerf? What do we call that ridge of plastic or clay or plaster that marks the seam, left when a cast object emerges from a mold, and that needs to be pared away to leave a smooth surface? I thought it was scarp, but that's a geological feature, not what I've described.

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Hab, how about sprue? That's a foundry term for the material left in the channel into which the material was poured or injected,as well as the channel itself, so I think it fits the bill here. I think it also refers to material in the seams of dies or molds that don't match perfectly.

We're getting closer, but it's a much simpler word than that. Durn. I used to know it , but it escapes me at the moment.

In the meantime, while I was looking around I came across this nice one (assuming that KERF is indeed correct and we're looking for another reverse definition):

"...a method of producing pottery shapes like plates and bowls. A ball of clay is placed on a rotating mold and forced to conform to the shape of the mold by bearing down on the clay with a profiled lever arm. The profile or shape of the lever arm determines one surface of the pot while the mold determines the other surface..."

We know other meanings for the word, but this one was new to me.

Throwing?

Are you looking for "DADO"?

Not throwing; that's where the mass of clay is shaped by the potter's hand on the rotating wheel. This one is more like pressing on the mass of clay with a shaped piston to make the inside contour, I gather.

And dado isn't the "excess plastic from the mold" word, unfortunately. OneLook.com has dado as a "noun: a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it". I thought maybe CHAMFER might have been my answer but that seems to be a groove cut where two pieces of material butt edge-to-edge, making a v-shaped groove between them, so that's not it either.

This is what happens when you are gone for a day! Sorry, arnie, about the delay, but "kerf" was correct.

Do I also get credit for the correct answer, Kalleh? See my post of the 10th.

Asa,

Your post said

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A kerf, perhaps? No, that's a Northern Iraqi.

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Since you said that kerf wasn't the word, you can't claim it now.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by arnie:
Asa,

Your post said "A kerf, perhaps? No, that's a Northern Iraqi." Since you said that kerf __wasn't__ the word, you can't claim it now.
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Oh, fie and curses, my feebled wit has me undone! I guess I'll have to play it straight around here!

Asa, sobbing into his Kurds and whey.