noun
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a spirituous liquor distilled from the flowers of the tree Anthocephalus indicus (cadamba tree).
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in gen. any spirituous liquor.
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a relatively long fictional prose narrative with a more or less complex plot or pattern of events, about actions, feelings, motives, etc. of a group of characters; a novel.
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the type or form of literature represented by such narratives; the novel.