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ban
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n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition,
ban, proscription]
2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn:
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]
5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in
Nursing, BAN]
v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
[syn: ban, censor]
2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;
"Smoking is banned in this building"
3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn:
banish, ban]
4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban,
ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
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ain
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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]
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an
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n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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bran
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n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are
separated from the flour by sifting
2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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catamaran
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n 1: a sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single
deck
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cayenne
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n 1: plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers;
usually red [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili
pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper, jalapeno,
Capsicum annuum longum]
2: ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus
Capsicum [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, red pepper]
3: a long and often twisted hot red pepper [syn: cayenne,
cayenne pepper]
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clan
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n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin,
kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
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cyan
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adj 1: of a bluish shade of green [syn: bluish green, blue-
green, cyan, teal]
n 1: a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green
color
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divan
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n 1: a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall)
2: a Muslim council of state [syn: divan, diwan]
3: a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one
author) [syn: divan, diwan]
4: a Muslim council chamber or law court [syn: divan, diwan]
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fan
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n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a
surface or surfaces
2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan,
rooter]
3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff,
devotee, lover]
v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
3: agitate the air
4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood
there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow,
fan]
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flan
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n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard
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man
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n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there
were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult
male] [ant: adult female, woman]
2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a
military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn:
serviceman, military man, man, military personnel]
[ant: civilian]
3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it
was every man for himself"
4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech,
and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being,
human]
5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the
building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and
courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his
employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet,
valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman,
man]
8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover
or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes
good care of her man" [ant: woman]
9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle
of Man]
10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing
certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the
chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic
advantage" [syn: man, piece]
11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the
world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because
`mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human
race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans,
mankind, man]
v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place;
"Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks";
"Students were manning the booths"
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pan
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n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn:
pan, cooking pan]
2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and
flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and
ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan,
goat god]
3: shallow container made of metal
4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to
other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan]
v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the
room"
2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
[syn: pan, pan out, pan off]
3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned
the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]
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pecan
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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
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plan
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n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be
accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they
discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan,
program, programme]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan]
3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were
on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan]
v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He
plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had
planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after]
2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his
family"
3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
"design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the
museum" [syn: design, plan]
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rattan
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n 1: climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable
for the great length of the stems which are used for
malacca canes [syn: rattan, rattan palm, Calamus
rotang]
2: the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and
related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and
canes [syn: rattan, rattan cane]
3: a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms [syn:
rattan, ratan]
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scan
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n 1: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed
region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his
binoculars"
2: an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan";
"you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" [syn: scan, CAT
scan]
v 1: examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the
X-ray"
2: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance
over, run down]
3: make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night
sky"
4: conform to a metrical pattern
5: move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
6: read metrically; "scan verses"
7: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read
by the computer" [syn: read, scan]
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sedan
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n 1: a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and
two or four doors [syn: sedan, saloon]
2: a closed litter for one passenger [syn: sedan, sedan
chair]
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span
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n 1: the complete duration of something; "the job was finished
in the span of an hour"
2: the distance or interval between two points
3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome,
twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich,
duo, duet, dyad, duad]
4: a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human
hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
5: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an
obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn:
bridge, span]
6: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle,
span]
v 1: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers
traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3
acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross,
traverse, span, sweep]
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tan
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adj 1: of a light yellowish-brown color
n 1: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays
of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn]
2: a light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz]
3: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled
triangle [syn: tangent, tan]
v 1: treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert
them into leather
2: get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze]
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van
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n 1: any creative group active in the innovation and application
of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially
in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new
wave]
2: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn:
vanguard, van]
3: (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or
freight
4: a camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van,
caravan]
5: a truck with an enclosed cargo space
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wan
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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
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yuan
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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]
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ane
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adj 1: used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane'
is Scottish" [syn: one, 1, i, ane]
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spokane
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n 1: a city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border
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cheyenne
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the
southeastern corner of the state [syn: Cheyenne, capital
of Wyoming]
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne
3: a member of a North American Indian people living on the
western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
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han
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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]
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xian
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n 1: a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire
221-206 BC [syn: Xian, Sian, Singan, Changan,
Hsian]
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bhutan
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n 1: a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast
of India [syn: Bhutan, Kingdom of Bhutan]
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iran
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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]
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kazakhstan
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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]
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cannes
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n 1: a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an
annual film festival
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gran
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n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
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jan
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n 1: the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the
winter solstice [syn: January, Jan]
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klan
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n 1: a secret society of white Southerners in the United States;
was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation
of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
[syn: Ku Klux Klan, Klan, KKK]
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lan
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n 1: a local computer network for communication between
computers; especially a network connecting computers and
word processors and other electronic office equipment to
create a communication system between offices [syn: local
area network, LAN]
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mann
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n 1: United States educator who introduced reforms that
significantly altered the system of public education
(1796-1859) [syn: Mann, Horace Mann]
2: German writer concerned about the role of the artist in
bourgeois society (1875-1955) [syn: Mann, Thomas Mann]
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nan
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n 1: your grandmother
2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the
Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River]
4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped
like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]
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quran
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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]
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shan
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n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Tai Long, Shan]
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cezanne
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n 1: French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art
(especially cubism) by stressing the structural components
latent in nature (1839-1906) [syn: Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne]
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japan
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n 1: a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia
extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the
western Pacific Ocean [syn: Japan, Japanese Islands,
Japanese Archipelago]
2: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago;
a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and
ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon, Nihon]
3: lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner
with a glossy durable black lacquer
4: lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from
the orient
v 1: coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan
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lausanne
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n 1: a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial
center
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saran
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n 1: any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things
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sudan
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n 1: a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved
independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
[syn: Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, Soudan]
2: a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and
Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
[syn: Sudan, Soudan]
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harmattan
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n 1: a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western
coast of Africa during the winter
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minivan
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n 1: a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable
seats; used as a family car
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dayan
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n 1: Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981) [syn: Dayan,
Moshe Dayan]
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anne
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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)
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schwann
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n 1: German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839
identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and
animal tissue (1810-1882) [syn: Schwann, Theodor
Schwann]
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cran
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n 1: a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring
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began
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overran
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ran
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than
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vin
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caen
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dahn
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ilan
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bahn
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banh
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bann
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blan
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blann
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brann
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cahn
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cann
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chan
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dan
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dann
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fran
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gan
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kan
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san
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stan
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beagan
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beaudin
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boivin
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bouman
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bourquin
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bousman
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boutin
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chapin
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chauvin
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couchman
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cruzan
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cspan
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deignan
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joanne
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liane
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lianne
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moran
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moulin
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outran
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roseanne
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suzanne
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ariane
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carryanne
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deguzman
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