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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Abbreviation of Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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name
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: sig
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noun
Obsolete form of lanterloo (the card game).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, alt-of, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To flavor (ale) with aged urine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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History
Perhaps from Middle English langet, a derivative of lang (“long”), denoting someone who lived by a long strip of ground.
Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).
Compare lance.
