Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete variant of burn.
  • noun One of the radiating sticks of a fan.
  • noun One of the two circular fibers that issue from the silkworm. It consists of two parts, the inner of fibroin, or true silk, and the outer of sericin, or silk-glue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

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  • noun One of the radiating sticks of a fan.

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French

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