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A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.

same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon. From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases. Arbuthnot.

A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter edh, capital form th in a similar word: oedher, other, dôedh, doth." March.

Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (Arch.)

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. J. R. Green.

An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

German, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low German), spoken in many dialects.

crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

assium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.

Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo- Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. [Written also lath.] Brande & C.

A city of Saxony. Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere.

One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. A man can not make him laugh. Shak. A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. Addison.

An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.

ussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.

cil; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.