74 Rhymes For ST-POLYCARP

• Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)

• Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)

• Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

• make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

• a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

• come back to

• the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised

• raise trivial objections

• waterproofed canvas

• a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

• A string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers (muting bars) which mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord.

• a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion

• outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape

• a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification

• outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape

• a plant that bears fruit once and dies

• mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus

• the middle layer of a pericarp

• a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed

• tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae

• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

• the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary

• any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed

• specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia

• fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple

• a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound

• To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original.

• Not sharp; out of focus.

• the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells

• a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity

• fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry