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Webster 1913 Edition
Requin
Re′quin
(r?′kw?n)
, Noun.
[F., fr.
reqiem
a Mass sung for the dead. See Requiem
.] (Zool.)
The man-eater, or white shark (
Carcharodon carcharias
); – so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.