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• Jeanne d'Arc (noun)
  1. 1412-1431 french heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king; she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake
• Joan of Arc
  1. (1412-31) the PATRON SAINT of France. As a young girl, she believed that she heard holy voices telling her to fight the English and force their army to leave France. Dressed as a man, she led a French army which defeated the English at Orléans, and became known as the ' Maid of Orléans '. Later she was made a prisoner, and a court found her guilty of being a WITCH (= a woman with evil magic powers), and she was punished by being burned to death.
• arc lamp (noun)
  1. a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes
• arc light (noun)
  1. a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes
• arc welding (noun)
  1. a method of joining two pieces of metal together by heating them with a special tool
• arc-boutant (noun)
  1. a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch
• carbon arc (noun)
  1. has carbon electrodes
• carbon arc lamp (noun)
  1. has carbon electrodes
• electric arc (noun)
  1. electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
• electric-arc furnace (noun)
  1. an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel
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