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A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.

An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service. [Now used jocosely]

gs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

ording to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value. Bacon. The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. W. Irving.

reserve; bashfulness. It is good to speak on such questions with diffidence. Macaulay. An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness of adress. W. Irving.

The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell.

Fem. of Englishman. Shak.

Among Spanish Americans, a foreigner, esp. an Englishman or American; -- often used as a term of reproach.

so to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech. Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Matt. i. 23. And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. Gen. xli. 8.…

To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. "An Englishman Italianized." Lowell.

typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for the typical Englishman.

Apple-john. -- John Bull, an ideal personification of the typical characteristics of an Englishman, or of the English people. -- John Bullism, English character. W. Irving. -- John Doe (Law), the name formerly given to the fictitious plaintiff in an action of ejectment. Mozley & W. -- John Doree, John Dory. Etym:…

A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander. [Celtic] Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.

abitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.

Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.

foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.

tance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.