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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wyn  \Wyn\,  Wynn  \Wynn\,  n.  Also  Wen  \Wen\  [AS.  w[=e]n.] 
  One  of  the  runes  (?)  adopted  into  the  Anglo-Saxon,  or  Old 
  English,  alphabet.  It  had  the  value  of  modern  English  w,  and 
  was  replaced  from  about  a.  d.  1280  at  first  by  uu  later  by 
  w. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wen 
  n  :  a  common  cyst  of  the  skin;  filled  with  fatty  matter  (sebum) 
  that  is  secreted  by  a  sebaceous  gland  that  has  been 
  blocked  [syn:  {sebaceous  cyst},  {pilar  cyst},  {steatocystoma}] 




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