English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Anglified
(imp. & p. p.)
of Anglify
Anglify
(v. t.)
To convert into English; to anglicize.
Anglifying
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Anglify
Angling
(n.)
The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and
line.
Angling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Angle
A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and,
or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German,
Anglo-Irish.
Anglo-Catholic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English
Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or
High Church section of the Church of England.
Anglo-Catholic
(n.)
A member of the Church of England who contends for
its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.
Anglo-Saxon
(n.)
A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one
the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental
(or "Old") Saxon.
Anglo-Saxon
(n.)
One of the race or people who claim descent from the
Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a
person of English descent in its broadest sense.
Anglo-Saxon
(n.)
The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of
England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman
Conquest.
Anglo-Saxon
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their
language.
Anglo-Saxon
(n.)
The language of the English people before the Conquest
(sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.
Anglo-Saxondom
(n.)
The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and
the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
Anglo-Saxonism
(n.)
A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race;
especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
Anglo-Saxonism
(n.)
The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or
English in its ethnological sense.
Anglomania
(n.)
A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English
customs, institutions, etc.
Anglomaniac
(n.)
One affected with Anglomania.
Anglophobia
(n.)
Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the
English.
Angola
(n.)
A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.