These are the meanings of the letters ONNIRAC when you unscramble them.
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Acorn (n.)
The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
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Acorn (n.)
A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
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Acorn (n.)
See Acorn-shell.
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Ancon (n.)
The olecranon, or the elbow.
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Ancon (n.)
Alt. of Ancone
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Anion (n.)
An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
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Cairn (n.)
A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
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Cairn (n.)
A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
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Canon (n.)
A law or rule.
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Canon (n.)
A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
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Canon (n.)
The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
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Canon (n.)
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
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Canon (n.)
A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Canon (n.)
A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
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Canon (n.)
A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
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Canon (n.)
The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
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Canon (n.)
The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
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Canon (n.)
See Carom.
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Noria (n.)
A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.
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Orcin (n.)
A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.