"Kwal" is a word in CHAVACANO

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given …

In ancient English law. A renunciation of one's country, a species of self-imposed banishment, under an oath never to return …

In French law, denotes a docu* ment, or formal, solemn writing, embodying a legal attestation that something has been done, …

In English practice. A suit brought in chancery, by any one interested, for administration of a de-* cedent’s estate, when …

At the door of the church, one of the five species of dower formerly recognized by the English law. 1 …

English: for one's sake, dedicated to Tagalog: alang-alang

A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin \"pater\" is the analogue …

One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in …

A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from …

An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited …

In old English law. A plow of land; a plow-land; as much land as could be tilled with one plow, …

In English law. A device depicted on the (now imagi-nary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is …

One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and …

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is …

In feudal and old English law. Aid; compulsory aid, hence a tax or tribute; a kind of tribute paid by …

ln old English law. one who made a practice of buying corn or vict-uals in one place, and carrying them …

In English law. An ad-vocate; one who has been called to the bar. A counsellor learned in the law who …

English: to turn one's back Tagalog: pagtalikod

One of an extinct English order of monks.

1. In one of its ortgi-nal meanings, this term denoted a tribute paid by English dwellers, along the Scottlsh border …