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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A single article or unit in a collection, enumeration, or series.
2. n. A clause of a document, such as a bill or charter.
3. n. An entry in an account.
4. n. A bit of information; a detail.
5. n. A short piece in a newspaper or magazine.
6. n. A romantically involved couple: "[They] soon began seeing each other . . . and were an item for a year and a half.” ( Peter J. Boyer).
7. adv. Also; likewise. Used to introduce each article in an enumeration or list.
8. v. Archaic To compute.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Also: a word used in introducing the separate articles of an enumeration, as the separate clauses or details of a will or the particular parts of an account or list of things.
2. n. An article; a separate particular; a single detail of any kind: as, the account consists of many items.
3. n. An intimation; a reminder; a hint.
4. n. A trick; fancy; caprice. —
5. n. A paragraph in a newspaper; a scrap of news.
6. To make a note or memorandum of.

Wiktionary

1. n. A distinct physical object.
2. n. A line of text having a legal or semantic meaning.
3. n. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
4. n. informal Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
5. n. psychometrics A question on a test, which may include its answers.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adv. Also; as an additional article.
2. n. An article; a separate particular in an account.
3. n. obsolete A hint; an innuendo.
4. n. A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph.
5. n. A topic or piece of information having the salacious character of gossip, especially a romantic relation between two people.
6. v. To make a note or memorandum of.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an individual instance of a type of symbol
2. adv. (used when listing or enumerating items) also
3. n. a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
4. n. a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection
5. n. a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
6. n. an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole