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| acorn | acorn | fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
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| adjourn | adjourn | close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
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| adorn | adorn | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
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| airborne | airborne | moved or conveyed by or through air
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| astern | astern | (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"
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| attorn | attorn | acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord; "he was attorned by the tenants"
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| auburn | auburn | (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown; "auburn hair"
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| bicorn | bicorn | a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points
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| bicorne | bicorne | a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points
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| bighorn | bighorn | wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
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| bittern | bittern | relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes
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| Blackburn | Blackburn | black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat
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| blackthorn | blackthorn | erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
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| boxthorn | boxthorn | any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries
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| broomcorn | broomcorn | tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes
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| buckthorn | buckthorn | an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions
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| bullhorn | bullhorn | a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier
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| casern | casern | military barracks in a garrison town
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| cavern | cavern | a large cave or a large chamber in a cave
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| cedarn | cedarn | consisting of or made of cedar; "carved cedarn doors"
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| Chiron | Chiron | an asteroid discovered in 1977; it is unique in having an orbit lying mainly between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus
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| cistern | cistern | an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
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| cithern | cithern | a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
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| cittern | cittern | a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
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| concern | concern | something that interests you because it is important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
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| cowbarn | cowbarn | a barn for cows
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| cromorne | cromorne | a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
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| crumhorn | crumhorn | a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
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| dehorn | dehorn | take the horns off (an animal)
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| discern | discern | detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
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| downturn | downturn | a worsening of business or economic activity; "the market took a downturn"
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| earthborn | earthborn | connected with earthly life; of earthly origin; "earthborn cares and pleasures"
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| eastern | eastern | from the east; used especially of winds; "an eastern wind"; "the winds are easterly"
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| Edirne | Edirne | a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian
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| extern | extern | a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there
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| firstborn | firstborn | the offspring who came first in the order of birth
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| foghorn | foghorn | a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone
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| forborne | forbear | a person from whom you are descended
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| foresworn | foreswear | turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
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| forlorn | forlorn | marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
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| forsworn | forswear | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
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| freeborn | freeborn | born free of free parents
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| gittern | gittern | a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
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| govern | govern | direct or strongly influence the behavior of; "His belief in God governs his conduct"
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| greenhorn | greenhorn | an awkward and inexperienced youth
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| hawthorn | hawthorn | a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
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| Hawthorne | Hawthorne | United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)
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| heartburn | heartburn | a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder
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| Hepburn | Hepburn | United States film actress who appeared in many films with Spencer Tracy (1907-2003)
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| highborn | highborn | belonging to the peerage; "the princess and her coroneted companions"; "the titled classes"
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| inborn | inborn | normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good"
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| intern | intern | an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
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| iron | iron | home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth
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| Klavern | Klavern | a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan
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| krummhorn | krummhorn | a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
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| lantern | lantern | light in a transparent protective case
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| lectern | lectern | desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer
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| leghorn | leghorn | a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
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| lipfern | lipfern | any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions
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| longhorn | longhorn | long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States
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| lowborn | lowborn | of humble birth or origins; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor"
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| lucerne | lucerne | important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
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| Melbourne | Melbourne | the capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center
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| modern | modern | a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
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| Moderne | Moderne | of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes
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| newborn | newborn | a baby from birth to four weeks
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| nocturne | nocturne | a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
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| northern | northern | a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans
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| Osborne | Osborne | English playwright (1929-1994)
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| outturn | outturn | what is produced in a given time period
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| outworn | outwear | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
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| pastern | pastern | the part between the fetlock and the hoof
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| pattern | pattern | a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
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| pibgorn | pibgorn | an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone
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| popcorn | popcorn | small kernels of corn exploded by heat
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| postern | postern | a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
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| pronghorn | pronghorn | fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
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| quartern | quartern | one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
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| quatern | quatern | the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
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| reborn | reborn | spiritually reborn or converted; "a born-again Christian"
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| relearn | relearn | learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it; "After the accident, he could not walk for months and had to relearn how to walk down stairs"
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| return | return | the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"
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| Saturn | Saturn | a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun
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| sauterne | sauterne | semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California
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| saxhorn | saxhorn | any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves
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| seaborne | seaborne | conveyed by sea
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| secern | secern | mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
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| Severn | Severn | a river in England and Wales flowing into the Bristol Channel; the longest river in Great Britain
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| shoehorn | shoehorn | a device used for easing the foot into a shoe
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| shopworn | shopworn | repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
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| shorthorn | shorthorn | English breed of short-horned cattle
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| sideburn | sideburn | facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)
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| silvern | silvern | having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen"
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| slattern | slattern | a dirty untidy woman
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| sojourn | sojourn | a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
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| southern | southern | from the south; used especially of wind; "a hot southerly wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly"
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| stillborn | stillborn | (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"
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| stinkhorn | stinkhorn | any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet"
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| stockhorn | stockhorn | an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone
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| stubborn | stubborn | tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
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| suborn | suborn | induce to commit perjury or give false testimony; "The President tried to suborn false witnesses"
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| sunburn | sunburn | redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun
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| Swinburne | Swinburne | English poet (1837-1909)
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| tavern | tavern | a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
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| tricorn | tricorn | cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points
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| tricorne | tricorne | cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points
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| unborn | unborn | not yet brought into existence; "unborn generations"
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| unlearn | unlearn | discard something previously learnt, like an old habit
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| unshorn | unshorn | not sheared; "a grizzly unshorn beard"; "unshorn sheep"
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| upturn | upturn | an upward movement or trend as in business activity
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| U-turn | U-turn | complete reversal of direction of travel
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| war-torn | war-torn | laid waste by war
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| war-worn | war-worn | laid waste by war
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| Weisshorn | Weisshorn | a mountain in the Alps in Switzerland (14,804 feet high)
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| wellborn | wellborn | of good or upper-class lineage; "a rich and wellborn husband"
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| well-worn | well-worn | repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
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| Western | Western | a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
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| windburn | windburn | redness and irritation of the skin caused by exposure to high-velocity wind
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| wivern | wivern | a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs
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| woodfern | woodfern | any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris
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| wood-fern | wood-fern | any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris
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| wyvern | wyvern | a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs
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| zithern | zithern | a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
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