Hypertext Webster Gateway: "magnum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Magnum \Mag"num\, n. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
magnum
n : a large wine bottle for liquor or wine
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