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{
"word": {
"definitions": [
"A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to:",
"The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.",
"The peanut. See Peanut."
],
"pos": "n.",
"word": "EARTHNUT"
}
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{
"words": [
{
"definitions": [
"An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak."
],
"pos": "n.",
"word": "A"
},
{
"definitions": [
"In; on; at; by. [Obs.] \"A God's name.\" \"Torn a pieces.\" \"Stand a tiptoe.\" \"A Sundays\" Shak. \"Wit that men have now a days.\" Chaucer. \"Set them a work.\" Robynson (More's Utopia)",
"In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. \"Jacob, when he was a dying\" Heb. xi. 21. \"We'll a birding together.\" \" It was a doing.\" Shak. \"He burst out a laughing.\" Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle."
],
"pos": "prep.",
"word": "A"
}
]
}- /:word/:partOfSpeech
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{
"words": [
{
"definitions": [
"An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak."
],
"pos": "n.",
"word": "A"
}
]
}