- The suffix used to form the plural of most words; as in roads,
elfs, sides, accounts. - The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of
English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends. - An adverbial suffix; as in towards, needs, always, -- originally
the genitive, possesive, ending. See -'s.
- One who limits, or restrains. - An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously
exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to
the English Puritans.
- Bunch of hair - Bunched cluster - Clump of grass - Grass clump - Tussock - A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or
bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers
or feathers. - A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
- 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. - The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of
England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman
Conquest. - The language of the English people before the Conquest
(sometimes called Old English). See Saxon. - 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. - Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their
language.