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an
0
n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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anon
0
adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon"
2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
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baton
0
n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra
or choir [syn: baton, wand]
2: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn:
truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick,
billy club]
3: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an
office or an authority
4: a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major
or drum majorette
5: a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay
race
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blown
0
adj 1: being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor; "blown
clouds of dust choked the riders"; "blown soil mounded on
the window sill"
2: breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, pursy,
short-winded, winded]
-
chiffon
0
n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
-
chon
0
n 1: 100 chon equal 1 won in South Korea
2: 100 chon equal 1 won in North Korea
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clone
0
n 1: a person who is almost identical to another [syn: ringer,
dead ringer, clone]
2: a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived
from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual
reproduction [syn: clone, clon]
3: an unauthorized copy or imitation [syn: knockoff, clone]
v 1: make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a
sheep nowadays"
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con
0
adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was
written pro and con" [ant: pro]
n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro]
2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn:
convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird]
3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person
to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game,
bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence
game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your
lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con,
learn]
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crone
0
n 1: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam,
beldame, witch, crone]
-
dacron
0
n 1: a kind of polyester fabric [syn: Dacron, Terylene]
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dawn
0
n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning,
aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break
of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow]
[ant: sundown, sunset]
2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning
of the world" [syn: dawn, morning]
3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"
v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It
dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was
penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through,
dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate,
fall into place]
2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"
3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
-
denouement
0
n 1: the outcome of a complex sequence of events
2: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary
or dramatic work
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disown
0
v 1: prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
[syn: disinherit, disown] [ant: bequeath, leave,
will]
2: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents
repudiated their son" [syn: disown, renounce,
repudiate]
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don
0
n 1: a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
2: teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge
or Oxford) [syn: preceptor, don]
3: the head of an organized crime family [syn: don, father]
4: Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds
to Irish Danu
5: a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea
of Azov [syn: Don, Don River]
6: a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is
prefixed to the forename; "Don Roberto"
v 1: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?";
"He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess
donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately
robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on,
get into, don, assume]
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drawn
0
adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or
suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her
mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from
sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face";
"shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young
face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn,
haggard, raddled, worn]
2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the
drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
-
drone
0
n 1: stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially
honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
2: an unchanging intonation [syn: monotone, drone,
droning]
3: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags
behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger,
trailer, poke]
4: an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote
control [syn: drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-
controlled aircraft]
5: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single
continuous tone [syn: drone, drone pipe, bourdon]
v 1: make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was
droning on"
2: talk in a monotonous voice [syn: drone, drone on]
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fawn
0
n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
"she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish
brown, fawn]
2: a young deer
v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep,
cringe, cower, grovel]
2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle,
bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up]
3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
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foregone
0
adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of
foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers";
"relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast,
departed, foregone, gone]
-
gone
0
adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done
for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)]
2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn:
asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased,
departed, gone]
3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed,
foregone, gone]
4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"
-
groan
0
n 1: an utterance expressing pain or disapproval [syn: groan,
moan]
v 1: indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students
groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The
ancient door soughed when opened" [syn: groan, moan]
-
grown
0
adj 1: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown
woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown,
grown, grownup]
-
john
0
n 1: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
2: youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216;
succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard
I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by
the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216) [syn: John,
King John, John Lackland]
3: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be
the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book
of Revelation [syn: John, Saint John, St. John, Saint
John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the
Evangelist, John the Divine]
4: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger,
john, trick]
5: the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament [syn:
John, Gospel According to John]
-
khan
0
n 1: a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian
countries
2: an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that
provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary,
caravanserai, khan, caravan inn]
-
lawn
0
n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass
-
macron
0
n 1: a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a
long sound
-
micron
0
n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter
[syn: micron, micrometer]
-
moron
0
n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot,
imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit,
retard]
2: a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires
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non
0
adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak
French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not
many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non]
-
on
0
adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the
view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the
circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along";
"march on" [syn: along, on]
2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his
spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?"
3: in a state required for something to function or be
effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on"
adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the
switch is in the on position" [ant: off]
2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or
shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant:
cancelled, off]
-
own
0
adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person
(especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for
your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own
clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain]
v 1: have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in
Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" [syn: own,
have, possess]
-
pawn
0
n 1: an article deposited as security
2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument,
pawn, cat's-paw]
3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and
captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more
powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of
the loan
v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your
grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]
-
pecan
0
n 1: wood of a pecan tree
2: tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its
nuts [syn: pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya
illinoinsis]
3: smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
-
prawn
0
n 1: any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn,
shrimp]
2: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers;
most are edible
v 1: fish for prawns
-
prone
0
adj 1: having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a
child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone"
2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
-
rapprochement
0
n 1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn:
reconciliation, rapprochement]
-
salon
0
n 1: gallery where works of art can be displayed
2: a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work [syn: salon,
beauty salon, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty
shop]
3: elegant sitting room where guests are received
-
scone
0
n 1: small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds
or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally)
on a griddle
-
spawn
0
n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or
molluscs
v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn]
2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
-
stone
0
adj 1: of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
n 1: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he
threw a rock at me" [syn: rock, stone]
2: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a
definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special
stone to mark the site"
3: material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those
making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock";
"stone is abundant in New England and there are many
quarries" [syn: rock, stone]
4: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;
"he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels
made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone,
stone]
5: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human
body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed
more than twenty stone"
6: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some
fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that
contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes
before cooking" [syn: stone, pit, endocarp]
7: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone,
Harlan Fisk Stone]
8: United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn: Stone, Oliver
Stone]
9: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) [syn:
Stone, Lucy Stone]
10: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes
(1907-1989) [syn: Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein
Stone]
11: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme
Court as chief justice (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan
Fiske Stone]
12: United States architect (1902-1978) [syn: Stone, Edward
Durell Stone]
13: a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a
heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
v 1: kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the
woman who had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stone,
lapidate]
2: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit,
stone]
-
swan
0
n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and
usually white plumage as adult
v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before
God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify,
assert, avow, aver, swan, swear]
2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods";
"roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam
across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the
next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll,
wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble,
rove, range, drift, vagabond]
3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the
mountains"
-
thereon
0
adv 1: on that; "text and commentary thereon" [syn: thereon,
on it, on that]
-
throne
0
n 1: the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.; "the king
sat on his throne"
2: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
3: the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or
bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on
ceremonial occasions
v 1: sit on the throne as a ruler
2: put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more
than 50 years ago" [syn: enthrone, throne] [ant:
dethrone]
-
thrown
0
adj 1: caused to fall to the ground; "the thrown rider got back
on his horse"; "a thrown wrestler"; "a ball player thrown
for a loss"
2: twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread; "thrown
silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn"
[syn: thrown, thrown and twisted]
-
wan
0
adj 1: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or
feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun";
"the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks
fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the
pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn:
pale, pallid, wan, sick]
2: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or
emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her
wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan]
3: lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness;
"a wan smile"
n 1: a computer network that spans a wider area than does a
local area network [syn: wide area network, WAN]
v 1: become pale and sickly
-
withdrawn
0
adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an
unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive,
withdrawn]
2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man"
[syn: indrawn, withdrawn]
-
won
0
adj 1: not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game"
[ant: lost]
n 1: the basic unit of money in South Korea [syn: South Korean
won, won]
2: the basic unit of money in North Korea [syn: North Korean
won, won]
-
yawn
0
n 1: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth;
usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not
suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it
was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" [syn:
yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy]
v 1: utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired;
"The child yawned during the long performance"
2: be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn,
yaw]
-
yon
0
adv 1: at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is
archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered
here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon]
adj 1: distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder
valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn:
yonder, yon]
-
nippon
0
n 1: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese
Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile
manufacture and ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon,
Nihon]
-
yuan
0
n 1: the basic unit of money in China [syn: yuan, kwai]
2: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: Yuan,
Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty]
-
mon
0
n 1: the second day of the week; the first working day [syn:
Monday, Mon]
2: a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent
parts of Thailand
3: the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon
-
bayonne
0
n 1: a city in northeastern New Jersey
-
leone
0
n 1: the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents
-
amman
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman,
capital of Jordan]
-
bonn
0
n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the
capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
-
conn
0
v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
-
hahn
0
n 1: German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of
nuclear fission (1879-1968) [syn: Hahn, Otto Hahn]
-
han
0
n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from
206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed
its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of
Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]
-
kahn
0
n 1: United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974) [syn:
Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn]
-
ron
0
n 1: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria [syn: Ron,
Bokkos, Daffo]
-
shawn
0
n 1: United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated
with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972) [syn: Shawn, Ted
Shawn]
-
xian
0
n 1: a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire
221-206 BC [syn: Xian, Sian, Singan, Changan,
Hsian]
-
amon
0
n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath;
worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon,
Amun]
-
aton
0
n 1: the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a
monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten [syn: Aten,
Aton]
-
bataan
0
n 1: the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese
forces besieged American forces in World War II; United
States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area
in 1945 [syn: Bataan, Corregidor]
-
bhutan
0
n 1: a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast
of India [syn: Bhutan, Kingdom of Bhutan]
-
ceylon
0
n 1: an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of
India
2: a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the
United Kingdom in 1948 [syn: Sri Lanka, Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon]
-
dhahran
0
n 1: an oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the
Persian Gulf; in June 1996 terrorists bombed an apartment
complex in Dhahran killing 19 United States soldiers and
wounding more than 300 people
-
exon
0
n 1: sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein
structures; "exons are interspersed with introns" [syn:
exon, coding DNA] [ant: intron, noncoding DNA]
-
gabon
0
n 1: a republic on the west coast of Africa [syn: Gabon,
Gabonese Republic, Gabun]
-
gibran
0
n 1: United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931) [syn:
Gibran, Kahlil Gibran]
-
golan
0
n 1: a fortified hilly area between southern Lebanon and
southern Syria; "artillery on the Golan Heights can
dominate a large area of Israel" [syn: Golan Heights,
Golan]
-
iran
0
n 1: a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western
Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was
known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil [syn: Iran,
Islamic Republic of Iran, Persia]
-
javan
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its
inhabitants or its language; "Javanese temples";
"Javanese dialects" [syn: Javanese, Javan]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Java [syn: Javanese, Javan]
-
koran
0
n 1: the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet
Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina [syn: Koran,
Quran, al-Qur'an, Book]
-
milan
0
n 1: the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an
international center of trade and industry since the Middle
Ages [syn: Milan, Milano]
-
oman
0
n 1: a strategically located monarchy on the southern and
eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is
dominated by oil [syn: Oman, Sultanate of Oman, Muscat
and Oman]
-
oran
0
n 1: a port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd
largest city
-
saigon
0
n 1: a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the
capital of French Indochina [syn: Ho Chi Minh City,
Saigon]
-
sichuan
0
n 1: a populous province of south central China [syn:
Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan province]
-
sorbonne
0
n 1: a university in Paris; intellectual center of France [syn:
Paris University, University of Paris, Sorbonne]
-
taiwan
0
n 1: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by
Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the
Communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: Taiwan, China,
Nationalist China, Republic of China]
2: an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of
mainland China in the South China Sea [syn: Taiwan,
Formosa]
-
tehran
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern
Iran [syn: Teheran, Tehran, capital of Iran, Iranian
capital]
-
abidjan
0
n 1: city recognized by the United States as the capital of the
Ivory Coast; largest city of the Ivory Coast
-
kazakhstan
0
n 1: a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the
northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking
inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an
Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991 [syn: Kazakhstan,
Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Kazakh, Kazak]
-
moldovan
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Moldova or its
people or culture
-
teheran
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern
Iran [syn: Teheran, Tehran, capital of Iran, Iranian
capital]
-
azerbaijan
0
n 1: a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an
Asian soviet [syn: Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Republic,
Azerbajdzhan, Azerbajdzhan Republic]
-
anne
0
n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
-
millimicron
0
n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter
[syn: nanometer, nanometre, nm, millimicron,
micromillimeter, micromillimetre]
-
bon
0
-
flown
0
-
forgone
0
-
thereupon
0
-
upon
0
-
von
0
-
whereupon
0
-
fernand
0
-
chandon
0
-
abron
0