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   A-bomb
         n 1: a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by
               nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element
               like uranium 235 or plutonium 239) [syn: {atom bomb},
               {atomic bomb}, {A-bomb}, {fission bomb}, {plutonium bomb}]

English Dictionary: A-bomb by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
abamp
n
  1. a unit of current equal to 10 amperes [syn: abampere, abamp]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
abampere
n
  1. a unit of current equal to 10 amperes [syn: abampere, abamp]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
affenpinscher
n
  1. European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle
    Synonym(s): affenpinscher, monkey pinscher, monkey dog
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Avena barbata
n
  1. oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia [syn: {slender wild oat}, Avena barbata]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Avena fatua
n
  1. common in meadows and pastures [syn: wild oat, {wild oat grass}, Avena fatua]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bone \Bone\, n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[be]n; akin to Icel. bein,
      Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn
      straight.]
      1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of
            vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic
            carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and
            bone.
  
      Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute
               cavities containing living matter and connected by
               minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals
               through which blood vessels ramify.
  
      2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a
            rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any
            fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of
            the body.
  
      3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  
      4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers
            and struck together to make a kind of music.
  
      5. pl. Dice.
  
      6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a
            corset.
  
      7. Fig.: The framework of anything.
  
      {A bone of contention}, a subject of contention or dispute.
           
  
      {A bone to pick}, something to investigate, or to busy one's
            self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one).
  
      {Bone ash}, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for
            making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry.
  
      {Bone black} (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into
            which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels;
            -- called also {animal charcoal}. It is used as a
            decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc.,
            and as a black pigment. See {Ivory black}, under {Black}.
           
  
      {Bone cave}, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or
            recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones
            of man. --Am. Cyc.
  
      {Bone dust}, ground or pulverized bones, used as a
            fertilizer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Insecta \[d8]In*sec"ta\, n. pl. [NL. See {Insect}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including
            those that have one pair of antenn[91], three pairs of
            mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[91],
            opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this
            sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and
            the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See {Insect}, n.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone.
            See {Hexapoda}.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda,
            Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined.
  
      Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided
               into several orders, viz.: {Hymenoptera}, as the bees
               and ants; {Diptera}, as the common flies and gnats;
               {Aphaniptera}, or fleas; {Lepidoptera}, or moths and
               butterflies; {Neuroptera}, as the ant-lions and
               hellgamite; {Coleoptera}, or beetles; {Hemiptera}, as
               bugs, lice, aphids; {Orthoptera}, as grasshoppers and
               cockroaches; {Pseudoneuroptera}, as the dragon flies
               and termites; {Euplexoptera}, or earwings; {Thysanura},
               as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these
               words in the Vocabulary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aphanipterous \Aph`a*nip"ter*ous\, a. (Zo[94]l.)
      Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clover \Clo"ver\ (kl[omac]"v[etil]r), n. [OE. claver, clover,
      AS. cl[aemac]fre; akin to LG. & Dan. klever, D. klaver, G.
      klee, Sw. kl[94]fver.] (Bot.)
      A plant of different species of the genus {Trifolium}; as the
      common red clover, {T. pratense}, the white, {T. repens}, and
      the hare's foot, {T. arvense}.
  
      {Clover weevil} (Zo[94]l.) a small weevil ({Apion apricans}),
            that destroys the seeds of clover.
  
      {Clover worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a small moth ({Asopia
            costalis}), often very destructive to clover hay.
  
      {In clover}, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate.
            [Colloq.]
  
      {Sweet clover}. See {Meliot}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate,
      AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]
      1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its
            edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a
            collective sense.
  
      2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton.
  
      {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena
            sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally
            twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of
            moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently
            automatic motion.
  
      {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from
            its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less
            resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and
            {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the
            United States.
  
      {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important.
            [Slang]
  
      {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
            --Thackeray.
  
      {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling
            oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of
            cultivated oats.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Avon By The Sea, NJ
      Zip code(s): 07717

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Avon Park, FL (city, FIPS 2750)
      Location: 27.59323 N, 81.50366 W
      Population (1990): 8042 (3964 housing units)
      Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 2.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 33825

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ (borough, FIPS 2440)
      Location: 40.19100 N, 74.01524 W
      Population (1990): 2165 (1371 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   ABNF
  
      {Augmented Backus-Naur Form}
  
  
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