Word Meanings - ANGLIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Angles. -- n.

PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
ANGLESITE
A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.
ANGLES
An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land . The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
PANGLESS
Without a pang; painless. Byron.
FANGLESS
Destitute of fangs or tusks. "A fangless lion." Shak.
WRANGLESOME
Contentious; quarrelsome. Halliwell.
STRANGLES
A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach