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Norse :: Norse (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.

Dacian :: Dacian (n.) A native of ancient Dacia.

Attest :: Attest (v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence..

Athlete :: Athlete (n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

Asa :: Asa (n.) An ancient name of a gum.

Eld :: Eld (v. t.) To make old or ancient.

Eaglestone :: Eaglestone (n.) A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites..

Mina :: Mina (n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas..

Kaiser :: Kaiser (n.) The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871.

Eparch :: Eparch (n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy..

Hierology :: Hierology (n.) A treatise on sacred things; especially, the science which treats of the ancient writings and inscriptions of the Egyptians, or a treatise on that science..

Plebeian :: Plebeian (n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician..

Murdress :: Murdress (n.) A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Phlegm :: Phlegm (a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

Lockram :: Lockram (n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany..

Tablature :: Tablature (n.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.

Thule :: Thule (n.) The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule..

Uncial :: Uncial (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style..

Percher :: Percher (v. i.) A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar..

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