- 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.
- One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to
the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished
from a dissenter or nonconformist.
- Protester - One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or
declares his disagreement. - One who separates from the service and worship of an
established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or
tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist.
- One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans
in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or
ditch on each side for keeping it dry.
- A member of a travelling people - Free spirited wanderer - Romany - One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from
India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered
over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft,
fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. - The language used by the gypsies. - A dark-complexioned person. - A cunning or crafty person
- A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two
tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one
before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was
substituted for this. - The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea
which belongs to the king or admiral.
- One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the
New England States to transact the general public business of the town,
and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from
three to seven in each town.
- Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common
law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the
thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the
festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.