- English native
- English person
- Someone from the UK
- UK native
- Alt. of Britt
- A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also,
a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire.
- A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by
the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.
- A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of
England.
- The smew.
- Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic
traders. See Sterling.
- Native language
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by
birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language;
as, English is our vernacular language.
- The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often,
the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
- The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in
the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of
lieutenant in the English army.
- The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or
rank of a baron.
- In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to
the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district
of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an
extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
- A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium.
See Bezant.
- Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
- A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople;
sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of
Constantinople.
C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the
Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g
(in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or
Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k.
The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the
Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name
of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the
French. Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other
sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E.
acute, ague; E. acrid, eager, vinegar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat,
kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.