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n. [ See Gemini. ] Twins; a pair; a couple. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From North American Indian auhúminea parched corn. ] Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [ U.S. ] [ Written also homony. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ignominies [ L. ignominia ignominy (i.e., a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. ignominie. See In- not, and Name. ] 1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Commonwealth. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.

Syn. -- Opprobrium; reproach; dishonor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding with mines; like a mine. “Miny caverns.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Jewish Relig.) A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. postliminium, post after + limen, liminis, a threshold. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Internat. Law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state. [ 1913 Webster ]