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Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain..

Semi-saxon :: Semi-Saxon (a.) Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250..

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b)..

Anglo-saxondom :: Anglo-Saxondom (n.) The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race..

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..

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..

Folks :: Folks (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe..

Stronghand :: Strong (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular..

Ye :: Ye () an old method of printing the article the (AS. /e), the y being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn (/). It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4..

Atheling :: Atheling (n.) An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family..

Crimpy :: Crimpy (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep..

Saxon :: Saxon (n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

Edh :: Edh (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth..

Saxon :: Saxon (a.) Anglo-Saxon.

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

B :: B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The sma

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

Greisen :: Greisen (n.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony..

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