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  • 51corn pone — [ kɔrn ,poun ] noun uncount AMERICAN a type of bread made from CORN …

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  • 52quién le pone el cascabel al gato — quién se atreverse a enfrentar al superior con una verdad incómoda; quién osa obrar ante el peligro de la autoridad; quién osa desenmascarar al otro; quién osa increpar al otro; cf. meterse entre las patas de los caballos, no tener pelos en la… …

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  • 53legem pone — payment of money, cash down, 1570s, from first two words of the fifth division of Psalm cxix, which begins the psalms at Matins on the 25th of the month; consequently associated with March 25, a quarter day in the old financial calendar, when… …

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  • 54corn pone — corn′ pone n. Southern U.S. dial. corn bread, esp. of a plain kind …

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  • 55corn pone — ☆ corn pone n. Chiefly South a kind of corn bread baked in small oval loaves, or pones …

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  • 56corn-pone — /kawrn pohn /, adj. Usually Disparaging. of or characteristic of an unsophisticated rural person, esp. from the South; hick: a corn pone accent. [1965 70] …

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  • 57de|pone — «dih POHN», transitive verb, intransitive verb, poned, pon|ing. to testify in writing under oath. ╂[< Latin dēpōnere put down (in Medieval Latin, testify) < dē down + pōnere put] …

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  • 58dis|pone — «dihs POHN», verb, poned, pon|ing. –v.t. 1. (in Scottish law) to assign or convey legally. 2. Obsolete. to arrange; dispose. –v.i. Obsolete. to arrange. ╂[< Latin dispōnere < dis apart + pōnere to place] …

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  • 59im|pone — «ihm POHN», transitive verb, poned, pon|ing. Obsolete. to stake; wager. ╂[< Latin impōnere < im on + pōnere to place] …

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  • 60Ke|pone — «KEE pohn», noun. Trademark. a chlorinated hydrocarbon used as a pesticide, similar to DDT: »The discharging of Kepone into the state s waters has had a crippling effect on Virginia s fishing industry (C. Brian Kelly) …

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