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adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + glimmer. ] In a glimmering state. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + glitter. ] Glittering; in a glitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Angles. -- n. One of the Angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anglian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Angli the Angles, a Germanic tribe in Lower Germany. Cf. English. ] 1. English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A member of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Attachment to England or English institutions. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ NL. ] In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ NL. Anglicus English + -fly. ] To anglicize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anglicisme. ] 1. An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anglicizing, or making English in character. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anglicized p. pr. & vb. n. Anglicizing. ] To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anglified p. pr. & vb. n. Anglifying. ] [ L. Angli + -fly. ] To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. hunting rabbits with beagles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Doubtful; skittish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A quarrel. [ R. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

They make but bungling work. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Clumsily; awkwardly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or obtained from, the dœgling; as, dœglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name in Faroe Islands. ] (Zool.) The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which dœgling oil is obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) (a) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. (b) A drawbar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zoöl.) The European perch when two years old. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Imbroglio. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The English language has been variously divided into periods by different writers. In the division most commonly recognized, the first period dates from about 450 to 1150. This is the period of full inflection, and is called Anglo-Saxon, or, by many recent writers, Old English. The second period dates from about 1150 to 1550 (or, if four periods be recognized, from about 1150 to 1350), and is called Early English, Middle English, or more commonly (as in the usage of this book), Old English. During this period most of the inflections were dropped, and there was a great addition of French words to the language. The third period extends from about 1350 to 1550, and is Middle English. During this period orthography became comparatively fixed. The last period, from about 1550, is called Modern English. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type. [ 1913 Webster ]

The type called English. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Billiards) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

The King's English or
The Queen's English. See under King. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. Englisc, fr. Engle, Angle, Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who settled in Britain and gave it the name of England. Cf. Anglican. ] Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. [ 1913 Webster ]

English bond (Arch.) See 1st Bond, n., 8. --
English breakfast tea. See Congou. --
English horn. (Mus.) See Corno Inglese. --
English walnut. (Bot.) See under Walnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Englished p. pr. & vb. n. Englishing. ] 1. To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Billiards) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Englishmen A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [ Obs. ] Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. able to communicate in English. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a South African bulbous wood sorrel (Oxalis cernua) with showy yellow flowers.
Syn. -- Bermuda buttercup, Oxalis pes-caprae, Oxalis cernua. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Englishwomen Fem. of Englishman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a new member of a group.
Syn. -- newcomer, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, entrant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A young bird just fledged. [ wns=2 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having just acquired its flight feathers; -- of a young bird; as, a fledgling robin. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- fledgeling(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. young and inexperienced; as, a fledgling enterprise; a fledgling skier.
Syn. -- unfledged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. (Anat.) Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.

{ } a. (Anat.) Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

{ } a. [ Ganglion + -form. ] (Anat.) Having the form of a ganglion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Ganglia E. Ganglions [ L. ganglion a sort of swelling or excrescence, a tumor under the skin, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. ganglion. ] 1. (Anat.) (a) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve. (b) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. ganglionnarie. ] (Anat.) Ganglionic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. ganglionique. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; glue: cf. F. gliadine. ] (Chem.) Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Glibber superl. Glibbest ] [ Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not. Shak.

Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make glib. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]