From: jwalz Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 23:01:02 +0000 (+0000) Subject: And another handful of submitted entries. X-Git-Tag: MOVE2GIT~1036 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eade95f3eaab1eb5a748e5d78daf4cdf98dbb8d7;p=nethack And another handful of submitted entries. --- diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index b62a6b134..86d64a90e 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -4140,6 +4140,12 @@ rock mole eat anything they come across in their diggings, although it is still unknown how they convert some of these things into something of nutritional value. +rodent* + A gnawing mammal (order _Rodentia_) having in each jaw two + (rarely four) incisors, growing continually from persistent + pulps, and no canine teeth, as a squirrel, beaver, or rat. + [ Webster's Comprehensive International Dictionary + of the English Language ] rogue * rogue I understand the business, I hear it: to have an open ear, a @@ -4153,6 +4159,14 @@ rogue conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession. [ Autolycus the Rogue, from The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare ] +roshi + Roshi is a Japanese word, common in Zen Buddhism, meaning "old" + (ro) and "teacher" (shi). Roshi can be used as a term of + respect, as in the Rinzai school; as a simple reference to + actual age, as in the Soto school; or it can mean a teacher who + has transmitted knowledge to, and thus "given birth" to, a new + teacher. + [ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] rothe The rothe (pronounced roth-AY) is a musk ox-like creature with an aversion to light. It prefers to live underground near @@ -4172,10 +4186,23 @@ rothe seven and a half pounds to start off with would increase in weight to five tons!" [ Royal Jelly, by Roald Dahl ] +ruby +sapphire + _Corundum._ Mineral, aluminum oxide, Al2O3. The clear + varieties are used as gems and the opaque as abrasive materials. + Corundum occurs in crystals of the hexagonal system and in + masses. It is transparent to opaque and has a vitreous to + adamantine luster. ... The chief corundum gems are the ruby + (red) and the sapphire (blue). + [ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ] rust monster These strange creatures live on a diet of metals. They can turn a suit of armour into so much useless rusted scrap in no time at all. +# takes "rust monster or disenchanter" when specifying 'R' +rust monster or disenchanter + These ground-dwelling monsters are known to make short + work out of degrading adventurers' combat equipment. *saber *sabre Flashed all their sabres bare, @@ -4276,6 +4303,12 @@ sasquatch a Sasquatch -- not Burns's giant Indian, but the hairy apelike creature that we have all come to know. [ The Encyclopedia of Monsters, by Daniel Cohen ] +scalpel + A scalpel is a very sharp knife used for surgery ... Merely + touching a medical scalpel with bare hands to test it will + cut through the skin. ... Medical scalpel blades are gradually + curved for greater precision when cutting through tissue. + [ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] *sceptre of might This mace was created aeons ago in some unknown cave, and has been passed down from generation to generation of @@ -4322,6 +4355,21 @@ scroll * I read these words, and read again, and tried My eyes against the heavens, and read again. [ Endymion, by John Keats ] +set +seth + The ancient Egyptian god of chaos (Set), the embodiment of + hostility and even of outright evil. He is also a god of war, + deserts, storms, and foreign lands. ... In the Book of the + Dead, Seth is called "Lord of the Northern Sky" and is held + responsible for storms and cloudy weather. ... Seth was + portrayed as a man with the head of undeterminable origin, + although some see in it the head of an aardvark. He had a + curved snout, erect square-tipped ears and a long forked tail. + He was sometimes entirely in animal form with the body similar + to that of a greyhound. Animals sacred to this god were the + dog, the jackal, the gazelle, the donkey, the crocodile, the + hippopotamus, and the pig. + [ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ] shad* Shades are undead creatures. They differ from zombies in that a zombie is an undead animation of a corpse, while a @@ -4355,6 +4403,31 @@ shark [ Close to Shore, by Michael Capuzzo ] shito A Japanese stabbing knife. +shopkeeper + There have been three general theories put forward to explain + the phenomenon of the wandering shops or, as they are + generically known, _tabernae vagantes._ + The first postulates that many thousands of years ago there + evolved somewhere in the multiverse a race whose single talent + was to buy cheap and sell dear. Soon they controlled a vast + galactic empire or, as they put it, Emporium, and the more + advanced members of the species found a way to equip their very + shops with unique propulsion units that could break the dark + walls of space itself and open up vast new markets. And long + after the worlds of the Emporium perished in the heat death of + their particular universe, after one last defiant fire sale, + the wandering starshops still ply their trade, eating their way + through the pages of spacetime like a worm through a three- + volume novel. + The second is that they are the creation of a sympathetic Fate, + charged with the role of supplying exactly the right thing + at the right time. + The third is that they are simply a very clever way of getting + around the various Sunday Closing acts. + All these theories, diverse as they are, have two things in + common. They explain the observed facts, and they are + completely and utterly wrong. + [ The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett ] shrieker With a single, savage thrust of her spear, the warrior-woman impaled the fungus, silencing it. However, it was too late: @@ -4386,6 +4459,12 @@ slasher shall pay for this, and seven heads for the dog, who was a better warrior than many a man." [ Conan The Warrior, by Robert E Howard ] +*sleep + Sleep is a death; oh, make me try + By sleeping, what it is to die, + And as gently lay my head + On my grave, as now my bed. + [ Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne ] slime mold Slime mold or slime fungus, organism usually classified with the fungi, but showing equal affinity to the protozoa. Slime @@ -4412,7 +4491,6 @@ sling *snake serpent water moccasin -python pit viper Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, @@ -4446,11 +4524,18 @@ snickersnee --Koko, Lord high executioner of Titipu [ The Mikado, by Sir W.S. Gilbert ] sokoban - Sokoban (Japanese for "warehouse person") is a puzzle-type - game where the player must push around treasure to a goal - area. It apparently won first prize in a Japanese programming - contest. - [ Xsokoban web site ] + Sokoban (Japanese for "warehouse keeper") is a transport puzzle + in which the player pushes boxes around a maze, viewed from + above, and tries to put them in designated locations. Only one + box may be pushed at a time, not two, and boxes cannot be pulled. + As the puzzle would be extremely difficult to create physically, + it is usually implemented as a video game. + + Sokoban was created in 1982 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, and was + published by Thinking Rabbit, a software house based in + Takarazuka, Japan. Thinking Rabbit also released three sequels: + Boxxle, Sokoban Perfect and Sokoban Revenge. + [ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] *soldier sergeant lieutenant @@ -4518,6 +4603,15 @@ javelin against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. --Human aphorism [ The Dosadi Experiment, by Frank Herbert ] +squeaky board + A floorboard creaked. Galder had spent many hours tuning them, + always a wise precaution with an ambitious assistant who walked + like a cat. + D flat. That meant he was just to the right of the door. + "Ah, Trymon," he said, without turning, and noted with some + satisfaction the faint indrawing of breath behind him. "Good + of you to come. Shut the door, will you?" + [ The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett ] ~*aesculapius *staff So they stood, each in his place, neither moving a finger's