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Word watching answers: August 2, 2003

BOUFFAGE

(b) A satisfying meal. Adapted from the French. Dictionary of the French and English Tongues, 1611: “Bouffage — any meat that, eaten greedily, fills the mouth, and makes the cheeks to swell.”

HESPED

(a) A funeral oration pronounced over the dead at a Jewish memorial service.

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TRISTICHOUS

(c) Arranged in three tows or ranks. A tristich is a group of three lines of poetry or a stanza of three lines.

GLOSSAN

(c) The coal-fish, Merlangus carbonarius. From the Gaelic glaisean, a coal-fish in its second or third year.