Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old Scots law, the satisfaction or compensation for the slaughter of a man, according to his rank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Electronics) acronym for
cathode-ray oscilloscope , an electronic device which provides visual images of varying electrical quantities. Seeoscilloscope .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
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Examples
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Herald and Wrangel islands were sighted from the "cro'-nest" and, as they were neared, apparently free from ice.
The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871
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While the headline above may not be true now, if I worked on the Kindle team at Amazon, I'd be running around figuring out who I had to kill, bribe, or screw to get some kind of cro ...
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While the headline above may not be true now, if I worked on the Kindle team at Amazon, I'd be running around figuring out who I had to kill, bribe, or screw to get some kind of cro ...
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Like the cro-magnon man before us, we hunt and gather and ultimately hoard (substitute furs and herbs with phasers and variant covers).
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So, they are clearly “elitists” to the cro-magnon base who think that white trash like Palin and Joe the Plumber are the future of the GOP. live Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Ruffini: Kristol, Brooks, and Will Not Conservative Enough 2009
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Connolly said Fimian -- who has apologized -- still needed to explain his "cro-magnon views on a tragedy that still resonates here."
At Connolly HQ, Jill Biden fires up volunteers Ben Pershing 2010
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A unibrow does not an inbred make … however cro-magnon comes to mind
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He could be a nice looking cro-magnon man if he'd just groom.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
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He could be a nice looking cro-magnon man if he'd just groom.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
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He could be a nice looking cro-magnon man if he'd just groom.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
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