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Acre
noun · 78% connection
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 t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Anglicism
noun · 78% connection
An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Anglicize
verb · 78% connection
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Anglo-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Anglo-Saxon
noun · 78% connection
a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by Englis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Arpen
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Black letter
unknown · 78% connection
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It wa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Blackmail
noun · 78% connection
A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Blockade
verb · 78% connection
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Casualness
noun · 78% connection
The state of coming without regularity; of being occasional or incidental.; "This casualness and irregularity of girls' labour was not…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Cat-hole
noun · 78% connection
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Coasting
adjective · 78% connection
Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
College
noun · 78% connection
A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Concubine
noun · 78% connection
A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Donee
noun · 78% connection
Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Douay Bible
unknown · 78% connection
A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Dover's Powder
unknown · 78% connection
A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
Down
preposition · 78% connection
A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, english, ports, peculiar, privileges.
