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The Word of the Day for May 30 is:

hoise   \HOYZ\   verb
     : lift, raise; especially : to raise into position by or as if by means of 
tackle 

Example sentence: 
     Bethany was selected by her Girl Scout troop to hoise the American flag 
for Monday's Memorial Day ceremony on the town green.

Did you know? 
     The connection between "hoise" and "hoist" is a bit confusing. The two 
words are essentially synonymous variants, but "hoist" is far more common. 
You'll rarely encounter "hoise" in any of its regular forms: "hoise," "hoised," 
or "hoising." But a variant of its past participle shows up fairly frequently 
as part of a set expression. And now, here's the confusing part -- that variant 
past participle is "hoist"! The expression is "hoist with one's own petard" or 
"hoist by one's own petard," which means "victimized or hurt by one's own 
scheme." This oft-heard phrase owes its popularity to Shakespeare's _Hamlet_: 
"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petar[d]." (A 
petard, by the way, is a medieval explosive device that had an unfortunate 
tendency to blow up the person setting it off.)