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Witenagemote :: Witenagemote (n.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest..

Norman :: Norman (n.) A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror..

Norman :: Norman (n.) A wooden bar, or iron pin..

Friborgh :: Friborgh (n.) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge..

Beakhead :: Beakhead (n.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak..

Normanism :: Normanism (n.) A Norman idiom; a custom or expression peculiar to the Normans.

Customary :: Customary (n.) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans..

Trappist :: Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky..

Harrow :: Harrow (interj.) Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.

Chevron :: Chevron (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture..

Angelot :: Angelot (n.) A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy..

Sarum Use :: Sarum use () A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs..

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest..

Moneyage :: Moneyage (n.) A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin.

Blancard :: Blancard (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven..

Billet :: Billet (n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round..

Norman :: Norman (a.) Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest..

Percheron :: Percheron (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman..

C :: C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Et

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