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noun
One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A globular head of flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
gloom or gloam
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To look gloomy, morose, dark or sullen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.
An alteration of gloom, from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”). More at gloom.
