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True-born :: True-born (a.) Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman..

Plethrum :: Plethrum (n.) A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet..

Angelot :: Angelot (n.) A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI..

Rat :: Rat (v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union..

F :: F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.;

Curtana :: Curtana (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor..

Tufthunter :: Tufthunter (n.) A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3..

Sextary :: Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint..

Mill-sixpence :: Mill-sixpence (n.) A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

Tufthunting :: Tufthunting (n.) The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities..

Black Book :: Black book () A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution..

Bethlemite :: Bethlemite (n.) One of an extinct English order of monks.

Foxglove :: Foxglove (n.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis..

Englishwomen :: Englishwomen (pl. ) of Englishwoma.

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..

Transliterate :: Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters..

Haversian :: Haversian (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century..

Justiciary :: Justiciary (n.) An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

Bodle :: Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

Sassenach :: Sassenach (n.) A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.

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