Word Meanings - BROADPIECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus.

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• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• GUINEA
  1. A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named. 2. A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about
• ENGLISH
  Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (more info) tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• CAROLUS
  An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
• JACOBUS
  An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• ENGLISHISM
  1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
• ANGUINEAL
  Anguineous.
• CONSANGUINEAL
  Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne.
• INDO-ENGLISH
  Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian.
• BOROUGH-ENGLISH
  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.