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unicorn

Webster 1828

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