unicorn

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To get the unicorn, all you have to do is go to the 'inn of ill omen' and head directly east from there aventualy you will reace some where called Harcane grove and the unicorn is there but be careful because guarding the unicorn are about three minotaurs and they are quite strong.

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  1. noun A fabled creature symbolic of virginity and usually represented as a horse with a single straight spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
  2. noun Heraldry A representation of this beast, having a horse's body, a stag's legs, a lion's tail, and a straight spiraled horn growing from its forehead, especially employed as a supporter for the Royal Arms of Great Britain or of Scotland.
  3. noun Astronomy The constellation Monoceros.

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  • Both of you When Billy got back to his room, the unicorn was going to the bathroom again Hey," said Billy Go ahead, pick it up," said the unicorn. —  FSF, July 2006
  • Who doesn't think, on reflection, that something that looks very much like a unicorn could be a reality in a very few years? —  AEon Four
  • A gold pin shaped like a unicorn was fastened to her jacket. —  THE ANASTASIA SYNDROME AND OTHER STORIES
  • To get the unicorn, all you have to do is go to the 'inn of ill omen' and head directly east from there aventualy you will reace some where called Harcane grove and the unicorn is there but be careful because guarding the unicorn are about three minotaurs and they are quite strong. —  TotalVideoGames.com
  • The horn of the unicorn was popularly regarded as the most marvellous of remedies. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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  1. Middle English unicorne, from Old French, from Late Latin ūnicornis, from Latin, having one horn : ūnus, one; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots + cornū, horn; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English unicorne, unycorne, from Old French (and F.) unicorne, from Late Latin unicornuus (also called monoceros, from Greek μονόκερως), a fabulous one-horned animal, the unicorn, from Latin unicornis, one-horned, from unus, one, + cornu, horn, = English horn.
 

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