noun
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a flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends, for shooting arrows; a bow.
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a part of the circumference of a circle; an arc.
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a bow or arc of prismatic colours appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain.
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the ninth sign of the zodiac; the Sagittarius.
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(astrol.) a condition in which the positions of the nine planets are distributed in all the seven houses from the tenth to fourth houses of the zodiac.
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(rhet.) a kind of tricky composition.