Definition of nun

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Nun (n.) The smew.

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Pronounce :: Pronounce (n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
Nun :: Nun (n.) The European blue titmouse.
Enunciated :: Enunciated (imp. & p. p.) of Enunciat.
Thunder :: Thunder (n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
Spiranthy :: Spirant (n.) A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208..
Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination..
Nuncius :: Nuncius (n.) A messenger.
Renunciation :: Renunciation (n.) The act of renouncing.
Annunciation :: Annunciation (n.) The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day..
Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13..
Abjurement :: Abjurement (n.) Renunciation.
Convent :: Convent (v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
Etacism :: Etacism (n.) The pronunciation of the Greek / (eta) like the Italian e long, that is like a in the English word ate. See Itacism..
Fulminating :: Fulminating (a.) Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures..
Enunciable :: Enunciable (a.) Capable of being enunciated or expressed.
Exundate :: Exundate (v. i.) To overflow; to inundate.
Nunnation :: Nunnation (n.) The pronunciation of n at the end of words.
Vestal :: Vestal (a.) A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun..
Crowfoot :: Crowfoot (n.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty..
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