WOTD - 07 Feb 2006

ASCOT - Race meeting; Ascot is a large village in the English county of Berkshire.Ascot is most famous as the location of Ascot Racecourse, home of the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting
OSIER - Willow; any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture
APACHE - Red Indian; A Native American people inhabiting the southwest United States and northern Mexico
SLOOP - Sailing vessel; A single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat with a short standing bowsprit or none at all and a single headsail set from the forestay
MAHON - Minorcan capital
PAELLA - Spanish dish; A saffron-flavored Spanish dish made with varying combinations of rice, vegetables, meat, chicken, and seafood
HIDING - Beating; To beat severely; flog
POSIT - Assume; To assume the existence of; postulate
DODO - Extinct bird; extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons
- One who is out-of-date, as in dress or ideas
- A stupid person; an idiot.
TYPHUS - any of various bacterial diseases caused by rickettsial bacteria, especially those transmitted by fleas, lice, or mites, and characterized generally by severe headache, sustained high fever, depression, delirium, and the eruption of red rashes on the skin

How did I miss these!?:
STREW - Scatter

Just to re-emphasise:
PIG IRON - Moulded metal; crude iron tapped from a blast furnace
BOOTY - Loot; Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war;Goods or property seized by force or piracy
FLOUT - (V) To show contempt for; scorn;
- (N) A contemptuous action or remark; an insult.