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   arere
         n 1: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves
               and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and
               one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
               [syn: {obeche}, {obechi}, {arere}, {samba}, {Triplochiton
               scleroxcylon}]

English Dictionary: aurora by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Aruru
n
  1. mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aurora
n
  1. the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"
    Synonym(s): dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow
    Antonym(s): sundown, sunset
  2. an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force
  3. (Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Airer \Air"er\, n.
      1. One who exposes to the air.
  
      2. A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arear \A*rear"\, v. t. & i. [AS. [be]r[aemac]ran. See {Rear}.]
      To raise; to set up; to stir up. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arear \A*rear"\, adv. [See {Arrear}, adv.]
      Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand. --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arere \A*rere"\, v. t. & i.
      See {Arear}. [Obs.] --Ellis.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arrayer \Ar*ray"er\, n.
      One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an
      officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them
      duly accoutered.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arrear \Ar*rear"\, n.
      That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid,
      though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due
      when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in
      the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. --Locke.
  
               For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of
               yesterday's arrear.                                 --Cowper.
  
               I have a large arrear of letters to write. --J. D.
                                                                              Forbes.
  
      {In arrear} [or] {In arrears}, behind; backward; behindhand;
            in debt.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arrear \Ar*rear"\, adv. [OE. arere, OF. arere, ariere, F.
      arri[8a]re, fr. L. ad + retro backward. See {Rear}.]
      To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arriere \Ar*riere"\, n. [F. arri[8a]re. See {Arrear}.]
      [bd]That which is behind[b8]; the rear; -- chiefly used as an
      adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.
  
      {Arriere fee}, {Arriere fief}, a fee or fief dependent on a
            superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory.
  
      {Arriere vassal}, the vassal of a vassal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aurora \Au*ro"ra\, n.; pl. E. {Auroras}, L. (rarely used)
      {Auror[91]}. [L. aurora, for ausosa, akin to Gr. [?], [?],
      dawn, Skr. ushas, and E. east.]
      1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the
            redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
  
      2. The rise, dawn, or beginning. --Hawthorne.
  
      3. (Class. Myth.) The Roman personification of the dawn of
            day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her
            a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers
            dropping gentle dew.
  
      4. (Bot.) A species of crowfoot. --Johnson.
  
      5. The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or
            southern lights).
  
      {Aurora borealis}, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called
            northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible
            only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin.
            This species of light usually appears in streams,
            ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a
            few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching
            south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the
            corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the
            dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as
            an arch of light across the heavens from east to west.
            Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of
            light are then called merry dancers. They assume a variety
            of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or
            blood color. The
  
      {Aurora australis}is a corresponding phenomenon in the
            southern hemisphere, the streams of light ascending in the
            same manner from near the southern horizon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aurora \Au*ro"ra\, n.; pl. E. {Auroras}, L. (rarely used)
      {Auror[91]}. [L. aurora, for ausosa, akin to Gr. [?], [?],
      dawn, Skr. ushas, and E. east.]
      1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the
            redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
  
      2. The rise, dawn, or beginning. --Hawthorne.
  
      3. (Class. Myth.) The Roman personification of the dawn of
            day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her
            a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers
            dropping gentle dew.
  
      4. (Bot.) A species of crowfoot. --Johnson.
  
      5. The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or
            southern lights).
  
      {Aurora borealis}, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called
            northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible
            only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin.
            This species of light usually appears in streams,
            ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a
            few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching
            south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the
            corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the
            dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as
            an arch of light across the heavens from east to west.
            Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of
            light are then called merry dancers. They assume a variety
            of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or
            blood color. The
  
      {Aurora australis}is a corresponding phenomenon in the
            southern hemisphere, the streams of light ascending in the
            same manner from near the southern horizon.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Aurora, CO (city, FIPS 4000)
      Location: 39.71227 N, 104.72977 W
      Population (1990): 222103 (99890 housing units)
      Area: 343.2 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 80010, 80011, 80012, 80013, 80014, 80015, 80016, 80017, 80018, 80019, 80045
   Aurora, IA (city, FIPS 3835)
      Location: 42.61924 N, 91.72977 W
      Population (1990): 196 (83 housing units)
      Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 50607
   Aurora, IL (city, FIPS 3012)
      Location: 41.76763 N, 88.29304 W
      Population (1990): 99581 (35621 housing units)
      Area: 86.7 sq km (land), 1.5 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 60504, 60505, 60506
   Aurora, IN (city, FIPS 2782)
      Location: 39.06641 N, 84.90329 W
      Population (1990): 3825 (1599 housing units)
      Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 47001
   Aurora, KS (city, FIPS 3425)
      Location: 39.45164 N, 97.53008 W
      Population (1990): 101 (49 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 67417
   Aurora, ME
      Zip code(s): 04408
   Aurora, MN (city, FIPS 2872)
      Location: 47.53197 N, 92.24004 W
      Population (1990): 1965 (920 housing units)
      Area: 9.8 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55705
   Aurora, MO (city, FIPS 2548)
      Location: 36.96990 N, 93.72037 W
      Population (1990): 6459 (2975 housing units)
      Area: 13.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Aurora, NC (town, FIPS 2620)
      Location: 35.30353 N, 76.78844 W
      Population (1990): 654 (296 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 27806
   Aurora, NE (city, FIPS 2690)
      Location: 40.86574 N, 98.00312 W
      Population (1990): 3810 (1588 housing units)
      Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 68818
   Aurora, NY (village, FIPS 3188)
      Location: 42.75218 N, 76.69887 W
      Population (1990): 687 (209 housing units)
      Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 13026
   Aurora, OH (city, FIPS 3086)
      Location: 41.31217 N, 81.34458 W
      Population (1990): 9192 (3478 housing units)
      Area: 60.3 sq km (land), 2.3 sq km (water)
   Aurora, OR (city, FIPS 3300)
      Location: 45.22830 N, 122.75557 W
      Population (1990): 567 (229 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 97002
   Aurora, SD (town, FIPS 2780)
      Location: 44.28272 N, 96.68660 W
      Population (1990): 619 (210 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 57002
   Aurora, TX (town, FIPS 4672)
      Location: 33.05817 N, 97.51592 W
      Population (1990): 623 (244 housing units)
      Area: 8.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Aurora, UT (city, FIPS 2740)
      Location: 38.92036 N, 111.93243 W
      Population (1990): 911 (281 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Aurora
  
      ["The Aurora Or-Parallel Prolog System", E. Lusk et al, Proc
      3rd Intl Conf on Fifth Generation Comp Systems, pp. 819-830,
      ICOT, A-W 1988].
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Aroer
      ruins. (1.) A town on the north bank of the Arnon (Deut. 4:48;
      Judg. 11:26; 2 Kings 10:33), the southern boundary of the
      kingdom of Sihon (Josh. 12:2). It is now called Arair, 13 miles
      west of the Dead Sea.
     
         (2.) One of the towns built by the tribe of Gad (Num. 32:34)
      "before Rabbah" (Josh. 13:25), the Ammonite capital. It was
      famous in the history of Jephthah (Judg. 11:33) and of David (2
      Sam. 24:5). (Comp. Isa. 17:2; 2 Kings 15:29.)
     
         (3.) A city in the south of Judah, 12 miles south-east of
      Beersheba, to which David sent presents after recovering the
      spoil from the Amalekites at Ziklag (1 Sam. 30:26, 28). It was
      the native city of two of David's warriors (1 Chr. 11:44). It is
      now called Ar'arah.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Aroer, heath; tamarisk
  
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