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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A margin, or border, in technical uses; specifically, in entomology, the inflexed or inferior lateral margin of the prothorax, often separated from the antepectus by a suture.
  • noun The day wind which blows from the south up the valley of lake Garda, in northern Italy.
  • noun Plural of os.
  • noun An Anglo-Saxon money of account.

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

  • noun A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.

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

  • noun Plural form of os.; mouths or openings, especially of the cervix.
  • noun A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons.

Etymologies

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Anglo-Saxon.

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