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U'NICORN, n. [L. unicornis; unus, one, and cornu, horn.]

1. an animal with one horn; the monoceros. this name is often applied to the rhinoceros.

2. The sea unicorn is a fish of the whale kind, called narwal, remarkable for a horn growing out at his nose.

3. A fowl.

fossil unicorn, or fossil unicorn's horn, a substance used in medicine, a terrene crustaceous spar.



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U'NICORN, n. [L. unicornis; unus, one, and cornu, horn.]

1. an animal with one horn; the monoceros. this name is often applied to the rhinoceros.

2. The sea unicorn is a fish of the whale kind, called narwal, remarkable for a horn growing out at his nose.

3. A fowl.

fossil unicorn, or fossil unicorn's horn, a substance used in medicine, a terrene crustaceous spar.

U'NI-CORN, n. [L. unicornis; unus, one, and cornu, horn.]

  1. An animal with one horn; the monoceros. This name often applied to the rhinoceros.
  2. The sea unicorn, called narwal, is of the whale kind, and is remarkable for a horn growing out at his nose. Cyc.
  3. A fowl. Grew. Fossil unicorn, or fossil unicorn's horn, a substance used in medicine, a terrene crustaceous spar. Cyc.

U"ni*corn
  1. A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.
  2. A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.

    Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Job xxxix. 10.

    * The unicorn mentioned in the Scripture was probably the urus. See the Note under Reem.

  3. Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.

    (b)
  4. The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird.
  5. A howitzer.

    [Obs.]

    Fossil unicorn, or Fossil unicorn's horn (Med.), a substance formerly of great repute in medicine; -- named from having been supposed to be the bone or the horn of the unicorn. -- Unicorn fish, Unicorn whale (Zoöl.), the narwhal. -- Unicorn moth (Zoöl.), a notodontian moth (Cœlodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; -- called also unicorn prominent. -- Unicorn root (Bot.), a name of two North American plants, the yellow-flowered colicroot (Aletris farinosa) and the blazing star (Chamælirium luteum). Both are used in medicine. -- Unicorn shell (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine gastropods having a prominent spine on the lip of the shell. Most of them belong to the genera Monoceros and Leucozonia.

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Unicorn

U'NICORN, noun [Latin unicornis; unus, one, and cornu, horn.]

1. an animal with one horn; the monoceros. this name is often applied to the rhinoceros.

2. The sea unicorn is a fish of the whale kind, called narwal, remarkable for a horn growing out at his nose.

3. A fowl.

fossil unicorn or fossil unicorn's horn, a substance used in medicine, a terrene crustaceous spar.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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