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Broad Church :: Broad Church () A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship..

Tithe :: Tithe (n.) A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges..

Commination :: Commination (n.) An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners..

Anal :: Anal (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands..

Nonconformist :: Nonconformist (n.) One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter..

Water Crowfoot :: Water crowfoot () An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England..

Gland :: Gland (n.) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product..

Riding :: Riding (n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding..

Mise :: Mise (n.) A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom..

Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..

Sweetbread :: Sweetbread (n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus..

Basedow''s Disease :: Basedow's disease () A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter..

Beefeater :: Beefeater (n.) One of the yeomen of the guard, in England..

Owling :: Owling (v. i.) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.

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

Finback :: Finback (n.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus..

Adenose :: Adenose (a.) Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

Fellow-commoner :: Fellow-commoner (n.) A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table..

Dalesman :: Dalesman (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc..

Glandulation :: Glandulation (n.) The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.

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