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Best's disease (medicine) and dreadnought (iou)


Best's disease (medicine)


Best's disease
<disease> Autosomal dominant retinal degeneration in the first several years of life.

Inheritance: autosomal dominant.


dreadnought (iou)



dreadnought noun & adjective. Also dreadnaught, (in sense 3) Dreadnought. E19.
[from DREAD verb + NOUGHT noun. In sense A.3 from the name of a particular Brit. battleship.]
A. noun.
A heavy overcoat; a type of thick woollen cloth used for such overcoats. Cf. FEARNOUGHT. arch. E19.
A fearless person. E19.
Hist. Any of a class of battleships (orig. superior to all their predecessors) whose main armament was entirely big guns of the same calibre. E20.
b. adjective. Fearless. rare. M19.