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Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
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(humorous, dated) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
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(obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.
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(US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
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(British, dated, World War I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
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(transitive) To remove the pips from.
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One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
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(military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
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A spot; a speck.
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A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
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A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
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(transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
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(transitive) To hit with a gunshot.
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(intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
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(ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
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One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
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(finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.