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Gothamist :: Gothamist (n.) A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders..

Liver :: Liver (n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

Conarium :: Conarium (n.) The pineal gland.

Annates :: Annates (n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings..

Angles :: Angles (n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc..

Rape :: Rape (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire..

Dominican :: Dominican (n.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins..

Acne :: Acne (n.) A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands..

Crypt :: Crypt (n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines..

Jacobian :: "Jacobian (a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England..

Adenotomy :: Adenotomy (n.) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands..

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

Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..

Oppidan :: Oppidan (n.) A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family..

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

Thalamencephalon :: Thalamencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain..

Slickensides :: Slickensides (n.) A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England..

Cockade :: Cockade (n.) A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer..

Settle :: Settle (n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620..

Anglicanism :: Anglicanism (n.) Attachment to England or English institutions.

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