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Kainite :: Kainite (n.) A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony..

Anglo-saxonism :: Anglo-Saxonism (n.) The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense..

Ora :: Ora (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling..

Mancus :: Mancus (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money..

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..

Sparth :: Sparth (n.) An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd..

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

Bretwalda :: Bretwalda (n.) The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes.

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

Saxonic :: Saxonic (a.) Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons.

Sassenach :: Sassenach (n.) A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.

Kieserite :: Kieserite (n.) Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony..

Saxon :: Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

Thorn :: Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..

Saxonist :: Saxonist (n.) One versed in the Saxon language.

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

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

Ge- :: Ge- () An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

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

Saxonite :: Saxonite (n.) See Mountain soap, under Mountain..

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