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Mail :: Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V..

Per :: Per (prep.) Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words..

Lambda :: Lambda (n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l..

Hin :: Hin (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure..

Brogue :: Brogue (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

Weigh :: Weigh (n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.

Rounder :: Rounder (n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football..

Acre :: Acre (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English..

Solicitor :: Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney..

Ballade :: Ballade (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy..

Exhibit :: Exhibit (n.) Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit..

Pixie :: Pixie (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.

Transposition :: Transposition (n.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English..

Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..

League :: League (n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each..

Skittles :: Skittles (v. t.) An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins..

Accusative :: Accusative (a.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English..

English :: English (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type..

Anonym :: Anonym (n.) A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word..

Caxton :: Caxton (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer..

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