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Englishman :: Englishman (n.) A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..

Quintilllion :: Quintilllion (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..

Anglicism :: Anglicism (n.) An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English.

Chops :: Chops (n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel..

Creux :: Creux (n.) Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design..

Rounder :: Rounder (n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football..

#NAME? :: -s () The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends..

Portgrave :: Portgrave () In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve..

Anglican :: Anglican (a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc..

L :: L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus)..

Southron :: Southron (n.) An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman..

Merchet :: Merchet (n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters..

Muggletonian :: Muggletonian (n.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired..

Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running..

Caxton :: Caxton (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer..

Anglophobia :: Anglophobia (n.) Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English..

Nobility :: Nobility (n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility..

Laureate :: Laureate (v. i.) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities..

Latin :: Latin (n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin..

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