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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gnome \Gnome\, n. [F. gnome, prob. fr Gr gnw`mon one that knows a guardian, i. e., of the treasures in the inner parts of the earth, or fr ? intelligence, both fr gnw^nai, gignw^skein, to know See {Know}.] 1. An imaginary being supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc 2. A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A small owl ({Glaucidium gnoma}) of the Western United States. 4. [Gr. ?.] A brief reflection or maxim. --Peacham. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gnome n 1: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: {dwarf}] 2: a short pithy saying expressing a general truth From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: GNOME {GNU Network Object Model Environment} From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNU) From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.
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