At 12:35 PM 1/10/98 -0800, you wrote: >Can we hold out? Can we keep our standards up? Can anyone find >another meaning for the word "Newton"? Remember, it has to be >fun but dull! Well........ look for yourself: new ton (n t 'n, ny t -) n. [[after Sir Isaac NEWTON]] the unit of force in the mks system; force which imparts to a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one meter per second per second: abbrev. N hunt (hunt) vt. [[ME hunten < OE huntian , prob. < base of hentan , to seize < ? IE *kend- , var. of *kent- > Goth (fra)hinthan , to seize: see HAND]] 1 to go out to kill or catch (game) for food or sport 2 to search eagerly or carefully for; try to find 3 a) to pursue; chase; drive b) to hound; harry; persecute 4 a) to go through (a woods, fields, etc.) in pursuit of game b) to search (a place) carefully 5 to use (dogs or horses) in chasing game vi. 1 to go out after game; take part in the chase 2 to search; seek 3 Bell Ringing to change the order of bells in a hunt: cf. HUNT (n. 5) n. 1 the act of hunting; the chase 2 a group of people who hunt together 3 a district covered in hunting 4 a search 5 Bell Ringing a series of regularly varying sequences in ringing a group of from five to twelve bells hunt down 1 to pursue until successful in catching or killing 2 to search for until successful in finding hunt up 1 to hunt for; search for 2 to find by searching Copyright (c) 1995 Compton's NewMedia, Inc. Def #5 of "hunt" is kinda interesting..... Wonder who's bell will get rung? Of course, Newton (Isaac) WAS the first scientist to be buried at Westminster Abbey........ that's got a nice ring to it... and without Newton, we would all be stuck with black & white TVs.... > >Welcome home, Newton. We've missed you, over and over and over. > and over and over.... >Susan > Guy "Ptolemy created a universe that lasted 1400 years. Newton created a universe that lasted 300 years...." Bernard Shaw
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