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Devon :: Devon (n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen..

Pilchard :: Pilchard (n.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England..

Lacrosse :: Lacrosse (n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a crosse. The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field..

Skunkhead :: Skunkhead (n.) A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck..

Sign :: Sign (n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents..

Tiver :: Tiver (n.) A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.

Biglandular :: Biglandular (a.) Having two glands, as a plant..

Hilary Term :: Hilary term () Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th..

Landgrave :: Landgrave (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.

Mamma :: Mamma (n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag..

Periganglionic :: Periganglionic (a.) Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog..

Coventry :: Coventry (n.) A town in the county of Warwick, England..

Jacobian :: "Jacobian (a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England..

Lias :: Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.

Estate :: Estate (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons..

Lenticel :: Lenticel (n.) A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves..

Alnager :: Alnager (n.) A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal..

Archchamberlain :: Archchamberlain (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England..

Follower :: Follower (n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.

Anglican :: Anglican (n.) A member of the Church of England.

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