attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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cornea | (noun) the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera | - |
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cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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(noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
(noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
(noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
(noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
(noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
(noun) a remote area | - |
(noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
(noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
(noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
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cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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(noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
cornet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: horn, trump, trumpet |
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cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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corneum | (noun) the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off | Synonyms: horny layer, stratum corneum |
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cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
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hornet | (noun) large stinging paper wasp | - |
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orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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poorness | (noun) the quality of being poorly made or maintained | - |
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(noun) less than adequate | - |
(noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness |
(noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty |
scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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suborner | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: briber |
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tricorne | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorn |
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