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catholicon
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n 1: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought
by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon,
cure-all]
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con
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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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icon
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n 1: (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple
picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file
or a concept in a graphical user interface
2: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or
abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the
pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images
projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn:
picture, image, icon, ikon]
3: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden
panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: icon, ikon]
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john
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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]
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non
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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]
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on
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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]
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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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salon
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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
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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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spawn
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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"
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swan
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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"
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yon
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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]
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zircon
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n 1: a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source
of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem
when transparent [syn: zircon, zirconium silicate]
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nippon
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n 1: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese
Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile
manufacture and ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon,
Nihon]
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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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mon
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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
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conn
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v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
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hahn
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n 1: German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of
nuclear fission (1879-1968) [syn: Hahn, Otto Hahn]
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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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sichuan
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n 1: a populous province of south central China [syn:
Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan province]
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teheran
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern
Iran [syn: Teheran, Tehran, capital of Iran, Iranian
capital]
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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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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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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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yukon
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n 1: a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon
Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea [syn:
Yukon, Yukon River]
2: a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold
rush in the 1890s [syn: Yukon, Yukon Territory]
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rubicon
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n 1: the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul;
Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of
war
2: a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically
results in irrevocable commitment [syn: Rubicon, point of
no return]
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ikon
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n 1: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or
abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the
pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images
projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn:
picture, image, icon, ikon]
2: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden
panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: icon, ikon]
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racon
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n 1: a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded
signals in response to help navigators determine their
position [syn: radar beacon, racon]
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ancon
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archon
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chaconne
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stereopticon
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caan
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caen
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jon
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juan
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stan
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liane
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marianne
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ann
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comecon
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eirenicon
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ascon
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