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Webster 1913 Edition


Magnum

Mag′num

(măg′nŭm)
,
Noun.
[Neut. sing. of L.
magnus
great.]
1.
A large wine bottle.
They passed the
magnum
to one another freely.
Sir W. Scott.
2.
(Anat.)
A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.