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Emerald :: Emerald (n.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers..

Fenian :: Fenian (n.) A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland..

Count :: Count (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl..

Fowler''s Solution :: Fowler's solution () An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, or white arsenic; -- named from Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use..

Kilderkin :: Kilderkin (n.) A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure..

Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..

Brogue :: Brogue (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

Recusant :: Recusant (a.) Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord..

Ploughgate :: Ploughgate (n.) The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.

Phonotypy :: Phonotypy (n.) A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character..

Parasang :: Parasang (n.) A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles..

Sixpence :: Sixpence (n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents..

Smithsonian :: Smithsonian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports..

Ell :: Ell (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37..

Nomic :: Nomic (a.) Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods..

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..

Tiffin :: Tiffin (n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense..

Maniple :: Maniple (a.) Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. It is sometimes worn in the English Church service..

Dative :: Dative (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective..

Acheron :: Acheron (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf..

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