"Primeru" is a word in CHAVACANO

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and …

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / …

The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were …

The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys.

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this …

In English law. A private and confidential assembly of the most considerable ministers of state, to con-cert measures for the …

An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of …

Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.

In old English law. A road, way, highway. It ls either the king's highway (chiminus regis) or a private way. …

In old English and Scotch law. The first purchaser of an es-tnte; he who brought it into the family owning …

An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain …

Concerning gifts, (or more folly, de donis conditionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The. name of a celebrated English statute, passed in …

The chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventh part of a Roman ounce. Also an …

A title of nobility, formerly the highest in England, now the third, ranking between a marquis and a viscount, and …

In English law. The old-est; the first-born. Spelman

An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, …

A string or ribbon by which tlie stocking is held upon the leg. The mark of the highest order of …

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callis describee …

In Norman and old English law. The first purchaser of an es-tate; he who first brought an estate into his …

A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan.