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A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales." B. Jonson."On ember eves and holy ales." Shak.

A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

ion of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.

ything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

other by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. The English soldiers and their French allies. Macaulay.

much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

If; -- a word used by old English authors. Shak. Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe. B. Jonson. An if, and if; if.

ding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

eign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

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.

Attachment to England or English institutions.

In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.

An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden.

The state or quality of being English.

The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish. Anglo-American, . Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or th…

Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.