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conquest (oh) and Unicorn (medicine)


conquest (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin conquisitus, past participle of conquirere; CONQUER]
[singular, U] the act of getting control of a country by fighting
::the Norman Conquest (=the conquest of England by the Normans)
conquest of
::the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
[C] land that is won in a war
::French conquests in Asia
[C] someone that you have persuaded to love you or to have sex with you - often used humorously
::He boasts about his many conquests.
when you gain control of or deal successfully with something that is difficult or dangerous
conquest of
::the conquest of space

Unicorn (medicine)


unicorn


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 Authorised 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. <zoology> Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax. The larva of a unicorn moth.

4. <zoology> The kamichi.

Synonym: unicorn bird.

5. A howitzer.

<medicine> Fossil unicorn, or Fossil unicorn's horn, a notodontian moth (Coelodasys unicornis) whose caterpillar has a prominent horn on its back; called also unicorn prominent.

<botany> Unicorn root, 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.

Origin: OE. Unicorne, F. Unicorne, L. Unicornis one-horned, having a single horn; unus one + cornu a horn; cf. L. Unicornuus a unicorn. See One, and Horn.

Source: Websters Dictionary