Dictionary entry

English

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Eng″lish (?), a. [AS. Englisc, fr. Engle, Angle, Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who settled in Britain and gave it the name of England. Cf. Anglican.] Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

English bond(Arch.) See 1st Bond, n., 8. — English breakfast tea. See Congou. — English horn. (Mus.) See Corno Inglese. — English walnut. (Bot.) See under Walnut.