Borough-English
(n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest |
English
(a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. |
English
(a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8. |
English
(n.) Collectively, the people of England |
English
(n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries. |
English
(n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type. |
English
(n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. |
English
(v. t.) To translate into the English language |
English
(v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion. |
Furniture
(v. t.) That with which anything is furnished or supplied |
Furniture
(v. t.) Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc. |
Furniture
(v. t.) The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc. |
Furniture
(v. t.) The masts and rigging of a ship. |
Furniture
(v. t.) The mountings of a gun. |
Furniture
(v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings. |
Furniture
(v. t.) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase. |
Furniture
(v. t.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ |
Indo-English
(a.) Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India |
Style
(v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax. |
Style
(v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. |
Style
(v. t.) A pen |
Style
(v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving |
Style
(v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument. |
Style
(v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects. |
Style
(v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon. |
Style
(v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil. |
Style
(v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written |
Style
(v. t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts |
Style
(v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard |
Style
(v. t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated |
Style
(v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars. |
Style
(v. t.) To entitle |
| body English | a motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction |
| English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
English Revolution
Glorious Revolution
Bloodless Revolution | the revolution against James II, there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (-) |
English sparrow
house sparrow
Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
| style | a slender bristlelike or tubular process, a cartilaginous style |
English lady crab
Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
| English toy spaniel | British breed having a long silky coat and rounded head with a short upturned muzzle |
| English foxhound | an English breed slightly larger than the American foxhounds originally used to hunt in packs |
| English setter | an English breed having a plumed tail and a soft silky coat that is chiefly white |
English springer
English springer spaniel | a breed having typically a black-and-white coat |
cocker spaniel
English cocker spaniel
cocker | a small breed with wavy silky hair, originally developed in England |
Old English sheepdog
bobtail | large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail, believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain |
bulldog
English bulldog | a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw, developed originally in England for bull baiting |
English sole
lemon sole Parophrys vitulus | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
| bedroom furniture | furniture intended for use in a bedroom |
| diningoom furniture | furniture intended for use in a dining room |
English horn
cor anglais | a doubleeed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch |
English saddle
English cavalry saddle | a saddle having a steel cantle and pommel and no horn |
furniture
piece of furniture
article of furniture | furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy, they had too much furniture for the small apartment, there was only one piece of furniture in the room |
| lawn furniture | furniture intended for use on a lawn or in a garden |
| office furniture | furniture intended for use in an office |
| Sheraton | a furniture style that originated in England around , simple in design with straight lines and classical ornamentation |
stylus
style | a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving, he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus |
| classical style | the artistic style of ancient Greek art with its emphasis on proportion and harmony |
dash
elan flair
panache
style | distinctive and stylish elegance, he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer |
manner mode
style
way fashion | how something is done or how it happens, her dignified manner, his rapid manner of talking, their nomadic mode of existence, in the characteristic New York style, a lonely way of life, in an abrasive fashion |
artistic style
idiom | the style of a particular artist or school or movement, an imaginative orchestral idiom |
life style
life-style
lifestyle
modus vivendi | a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes |
hairdo
hairstyle
hair style
coiffure
coif | the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) |
vogue
trend style | the popular taste at a given time, leather is the latest vogue, he followed current trends, the s had a style of their own |
haute couture
high fashion
high style | trend-setting fashions |
architectural style
style of architecture
type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
perpendicular
perpendicular style
English-Gothic
English-Gothic architecture | a Gothic style in th and th century England, characterized by vertical lines and a fourentered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting |
| style | a particular kind (as to appearance), this style of shoe is in demand |
| English | the discipline that studies the English language and literature |
| style sheet | a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication |
Shakespearean sonnet
Elizabethan sonnet
English sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg |
Oxford English Dictionary
O.E.D.
OED | an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles |
| New English Bible | a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha |
| style | editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display |
old style
old style font | a typeface (based on an th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes |
| Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
English
English language | an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch, the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries |
American English
American language
American | the English language as used in the United States |
African American Vernacular English
AAVE
African American English
Black English
Black English Vernacular
Black Vernacular
Black Vernacular English
Ebonics | a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States |
King's English
Queen's English | English as spoken by educated persons in southern England |
| Middle English | English from about to |
| Modern English | English since about |
Old English
Anglo-Saxon | English prior to about |
| Oxford English | the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious |