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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that lunges.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who lunges or thrusts.
  • noun One who comes to a climatic resort on account of his lungs; a consumptive.

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

  • noun informal a person with pulmonary tuberculosis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun slang A person afflicted with a disease of the lungs, especially one suffering from tuberculosis.
  • noun A person who lunges.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing)
  • noun a person with pulmonary tuberculosis

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