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Talon vs Sene - What's the difference?

talon | sene |

As nouns the difference between talon and sene

is that talon is heel while sene is wiseman; sage.

As an adjective sene is

wise; sage.

talon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
  • (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon .)
  • The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
    • (Knight)
  • In the card game bezique, the remaining stock of undealt cards.

    • Derived terms

    * taloned

    Anagrams

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    sene

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sene.

    Alternative forms

    *seene, senie

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Senna.
  • *, II.37:
  • *:My selfe have found by experience, that radish rootes are windie, and senie -leaves breede loosenes in the belly.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) sene, in turn from English cent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala

    • Anagrams

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