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Portgrave :: Portgrave () In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve..

Glassite :: Glassite (n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding. The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass..

Graf :: Graf (n.) A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl..

M :: M () As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin..

Hall :: Hall (n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college)..

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..

Pica :: Pica (n.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English..

Pykar :: Pykar (n.) An ancient English fishing boat.

Don :: Don (n.) A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities..

Iota :: Iota (n.) The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (/) corresponding with the English i.

Lance Fish :: Lance fish () A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance..

English :: English (n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons..

People :: People (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English..

#NAME? :: -en () A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an..

Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple..

Interline :: Interline (v. t.) To arrange in alternate lines; as, to interline Latin and English..

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

Transliterate :: Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters..

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) An old English silver coin, worth nine pence..

Trochee :: Trochee (n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus..

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