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Qui Vive :: Qui vive () The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: Who comes there?.

Russet :: Russet (n.) An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet..

Dalmatic :: Dalmatic (n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation..

People :: People (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English..

Woulfe Bottle :: Woulfe bottle (n.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist..

Vernacular :: Vernacular (a.) Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language..

Sans :: Sans (prep.) Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.

Anglify :: Anglify (v. t.) To convert into English; to anglicize.

Brogue :: Brogue (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

Branch :: Branch (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family..

Englishmen :: Englishmen (pl. ) of Englishma.

League :: League (n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each..

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..

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense..

Englishwoman :: Englishwoman (n.) Fem. of Englishman.

Kobold :: Kobold (n.) A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow..

Mail :: Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V..

Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

Short :: Short (adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30..

Millilitre :: Millilitre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce..

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