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November 2019

WESTERN RECORD: a harp whose timety is controlled by a distance. The drawing shows a harp standing on a vinyl LP on the surface of a schematic globe marked by lines of latitude and longitude. From over the opposite horizon a radio mast emits lightning bolts.

STAND: a small thick block of fish. A drawing of a cuboid mass of fish, all aligning with its long axis and facing right and trickling a pool of fluid.

MARCONI: Italian film actor (1925-1989) A drawing of a good-looking man with wavy dark hair in formal garb, holding a glass of bubbly.

STAFF SALAMANDER: a river in eastern England that flows generally in the 13th century. The drawing shows a river that winds past a castle, two stylised trees and a cloaked figure walking with a staff. The river ends in a smiling axolotl's head.

SELECTIVE THING: a statement that is added to a country or decision. The drawing shows a burly bearded monster pointing to a pentagram surrounded by candles. A magician stands by the pentagram holding a staff.

STRANGENESS: a special linguistic expression. The drawing shows a bald person whose wriggling tongue extends from their mouth on the left and a person with curly hair looking at them with anger on the right.

SWANSON: United States composer (born in Switzerland) who wrote about the colonists and later invaded and heroine pictures (1849-1934). The drawing depicts a distinguished balding man with a moustache seated at a piano. In the background can be seen a painting of a robed woman in a tragic attitude.)

PARASITIC FRUIT OF THE ARBES: type genus of the family Sphyreidae: catfishes. The drawing depicts a broad tree from which four catfishes are hanging. A fifth has fallen onto the head of a passerby.

TRAILER PLATE: a structure consisting of a line or strip of wood or metal. The drawing shows a long beam extending to the starboard side of a trailer and supported by a midriff windlass and far trestle.

SAFETY CHAIN: a ship that can be seen in case of stature. The drawing shows a sailing ship at the far right and two figures at the far left. The curvature of the Earth permits the taller of the two figures to see the ship.

WAR OF THE AGENCY: an agency of the United States government that interacts with the United States in 1960. The drawing shows a man in in pinstripe suit and fedora emerging from a spiraling portal to meet a soldier with a machine gun and a scientist in a white coat and goggles.

ADVERSE DRAG: a characteristic to be constant relative to a problem. The diagram depicts a figure in a ballgown and high heels leaning into a strong wind indicated by a large arrow, with a parallelogram of forces.

SHIPPING: carrying cards for light or shadows or stars. A drawing of a ship with playing cards on its rigging sailing against a starry sky.

FURMITY: a small ground of a small ground ground. A drawing of a chunk of soil and roots adrift, with a sprinkling of clods falling upon it.

PROFILE: a person who is expert in the form of a local anaesthetic. The drawing shows two stylised faces: the one to the left is talking and the one to the right has fallen asleep.

SUBCONSCIOUSNESS: a feeling of statistical activity. The drawing depicts a human head with a dark scatterplot in the region of the brain.

BULL: a small hoop for holding or storing strain. A drawing of a bull using a ring through its nostrils to pull a big spring away from its mount point on a wall.

CONCEPTOR: an act of three-dimensional assertiveness. The drawing depicts an art gallery in which a man is contemplating a large abstract sculpture with a phallic protuberance.

CHINESE DOLLARDOS: a small porcupine with a shell and a long handle; used as a street. The drawing shows a small spiky mammal with a spiral shell worn as a hat. From its back extends a long handle along which tiny cars and trucks are driving.

CORTING: an and an spormal of a small of a small conging of a small for a short of a landing a sound. A drawing of a fungal fruiting body growing from a small island. A boat is approaching from which a curly horn is blaring music.

BRACE: a structure or animal for straightening or for storage. The drawing depicts a human figure standing with its back to a tall, skeletal creature who holds the human's head between its square, caliper-like jaws.

BACHELOR: a scientist who studies the principles of some feel of ions (especially to do something). The drawing shows a balding man holding his hand to his heart with a look of happiness on his face. On either side of the man are two schematics of atoms which are exchanging an electron.

SCHOOL COACH: a sharp point on a child or blow. A drawing of a monstrously big and angry coach pointing an accusing digit at a scrawny and timid child in tank-top and shorts.

ORGAN: United States composer (born in South America) who introduced the role of the American Revolution and confessor of disorders of the stomach (1727-1789) The drawing depicts a figure in peruke and frock-coat with a face made of organ pipes, holding a scroll in front of a United States flag.

CHECKERBLAST: a small knitted area. The drawing shows a 3x3 patch of checked knitting bursting into the scene.

CHARADES: a genus of bacteria. The drawing shows one bacillus contorting itself in front of an audience of three others, who are making gestures of puzzlement with their cilia.

SHOPPING BOMB: a boat that is used to start a bed. The drawing depicts a small boat tugging a bed across an open sea. In the bed, a figure is propped up on pillows, using a laptop.

COMMENT: a person who is subarction to be shown. The diagram shows a portion of the Southern Hemisphere with a comment box below it.

ANTINEOPLASTIC BLOOD CELL: a nerve cell that uses tiny and wine. The drawing shows a neuron sitting at a table driving a glass of red wine.

WINDOW: a boot with a strong drawer or the flow of a water or color. The drawing depicts a tall boot from which a drawer protrudes. A glowing arch of fluid leaps up and over the drawer and pours into a growing puddle to its left.

DEFIX: a large mass of glass or pottery. The drawing shows a medium defix consisting of shards, hex piping and a brick.

STUB: a small sailing ship that has a stray suit. A drawing of a light yacht from which a suit and pair of pants has blown backwards.

ANTIGUA: the branch of the United States government concerned with the United States and the Union of Commons which conducts and sells free from the United States and the Union of Mark Twain. The drawing shows a grand neoclassical building with a stairway flanked by palm trees. In the foreground, an office in suit and sunglasses shakes hands with Mark Twain.

PROTESTANT: a physical study of a church or molecule. The diagram shows a cathedral on the left and an incident photon splitting it into a modernist chapel at top right and a baroque basilica on the bottom right.

SEA TORTEAU: a duck from which large and higher parts are supports the top of a ship. The drawing shows a large duck with a turtle's shell floating on the ocean. The topmast of a ship with furled sails is just touching the duck's beak.

AGNUS BOMB: a small artifact. A drawing of an altar on which a small bomb with a woolly coat is lain.

BLACK-BACKED SANDWORT: bushy annual with a few fleshy roots and hard woody stripes. The drawing depicts a stout tree with bulbous and hairy roots and diagonal sections cut through its branches.

CARPET STRUCTURE: a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Cygnus and Catherine de Medicipatic extensively separate family and semisuans and preserves. The drawing depicts a geometric structure of six stylised stars connected by beams to a rug floating in space. A spacecraft in the shape of a swimming swan cruises across the bottom right.

BATJACK: a soft blow. A drawing of a muscular man in an outfit imitating a bat using a fluffy pom-pom on a stick to touch a skinny man with lank hair in a suit.

SOFT STARTING: an incorrect station. The drawing depicts a railway station with clock tower and a two-carriage train which are slumping as if partially melted.

ADDRESS: a consequence of being sharply specializing in a computer. The drawing depicts a large mainframe computer, the left hand side of which is divided into apartments with curtained windows. In one of these a figure can be seen working at a computer.

GROUND: a standing for an organism. A drawing of a pair of limbs with big claws standing on a chunk of land which is floating in mid-air.

ALLERGY: (psychoanalysis) a request by a person or group of people or things. The drawing shows a man in a striped shirt making a gesture of rejection to a plate bearing two fried eggs on a thick slice of toast.

CUT OF BEE: meat from a cow or sauce. The drawing shows a cow wearing a bee costume, standing next to a bottle of sauce.

CONFRONTATION: (of politics) a boring community. A drawing of a group of Caucasians as uniform, scowling and shouting masks.

ANGLO-AND-AUAH-SISTE: a native or inhabitant of San Francisco. The drawing shows a bald man wearing high-tech glasses and a beaded necklace riding a Segway and making the peace sign. In the background can be seen the Sutro Tower, a row of boutiques and a person sleeping on the sidewalk.

PREY: a light form of crossbreed with chopped cream or cream and cooked sauce. The drawing depicts a dead animal with the head and body of a rat and the tail of a fish, served on a plate with two splashes of sauce.

MOTIF: a lack of construction. A drawing of a row of hoardings and scaffolding in front of a vacant yard, all carrying a triangular optical icon.

SELF-DECIPHERING: the act of constructing something. A figure is assembling a large and complicated piece of furniture, the outline of which resembles his own profile.

SHOT: a short strip of material that is used to start a ship or straight side. The drawing shows a ship being towed through the water by a short strap which attaches it to a large blank rectangle.

MOMOST: (Roman mythology) of fate-wing many patrons and wings. The drawing shows a statue of a stern female deity with multiple wings standing on a plinth. Beside it, a portly middle-aged man puts his arm around the shoulder of a slender man, both dressed in togas.

MANDARIN: an abrupt unit. A drawing of a plump citrus fruit with a rough and surly look

SHOOTING STITCH: a strong fish used to start a strap or bottom. The drawing shows a figure on the left bracing themselves on a bar, facing away from a large fish who is strapped to their midriff.

BOS: a storm that is the abolition of the antibiotic duet of Nations and alignment. The drawing depicts a thundercloud shaped like a bull's head louring over a battlefield.

BURROUGHS: United States writer of stories (1893-1965). The drawing depicts a man in a trenchcoat and hat wearing eyeglasses. Behind him are a sailing ship and a glowing, spiral portal.

BULLET BOAT: a boat that is used to start a strap or the flow of stars. The drawing depicts a bullet-shaped object with feathery wings flying above the surface of a planetoid, trailing a winding wake of stars.

SELF-DISSOLVER: a person who delivers a particular party to a particular source of statements. A tall man in dark glasses stands with his hand on the shoulder of a man in a striped shirt wearing a bag over his head. The pair face a third person, unseen, seated in an armchair, smoking a cigar. A dotted line crossed the first man's body and below it he is dissolving into smoke.

COMMITTEE MAN: a member of a country or country (especially a major school or plant). The drawing shows a cactus wearing a suit and tie standing in front of an old school building.

DISCOURAGEMENT: the act of destroying something to a particular purpose. The drawing shows a machine with a large antenna and solar panels floating in the sky. The spot on the ground at which the antenna is aimed is a scorched mark. Next to this is a small figure looking at the mark with a bemused expression.

PILOT BUTT: a box for cooking. A drawing of a cockpit showing a back vista of two chairs for pilot and co-pilot, which show two slots in which food is warming.

BURK: United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his studies of the pope (1892-1973). The drawing shows the physicist using a remote manipulator or "Waldo" to position a pope within a sealed environment to which is attached a large gas cylinder.

CALF ORGAN: a substance that contains the abdominal wall of the heart and the forehead. The drawing shows an object resembling a human heart with a calf muscle ending in a hairy foot running from the top to the left side.

BONE HORSE: a room where a single person is produced by the head. The drawing shows a building in the form of a horse's skull with a staircase leading to a door next to the eye socket. A figure looks down from the socket.

CANADA TREE: a small tree of the genus Calamagrus having long slender stems and small white flowers and flower heads with black seed of a large flower that feeds on the head. The drawing shows a Calamagrus extending its feeding flower to obscure the head of a passing Canadian in a check fleece coat.

REGISTERED POST: a book that has a projectile from a ball and the appetite moves of the skull. The drawing depicts a figure opening a large book to reveal a grinning skull and a ball which has bounced from the pages off the person's face.

SURTING: an anting word for hugk. A drawing of two ants hugging.

CARD GAME: a card game for two particles with a sharp point. The drawing depicts two spherical particles hovering above two narrow spikes, holding hands of playing cards and looking at one another with suspicion.

BENCH SHARPENTER: a container for carrying something. The drawing depicts a low box-like wooden structure which contains an irregular biomorphic mass with several eyes and tufts of cilia.