1. gnome, dwarf -- (a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure)
2. gnome -- (a short pithy saying expressing a general truth)
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On a step a gnome totting among a rubbishtip crouches to shoulder a sack of rags and bones. - from Ulysses by James Joyce
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Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine-. - from English Literature by William J. Long