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Modern English , MODERN ENGLISH, short form ModE, MnE. Also sometimes New English.
1. The third stage in the history and development of the ENGLISH language, c.1450 t… British English , BRITISH ENGLISH Short from BrE. The English language as used in Britain. The phrase contrasts with kinds of ENGLISH used elsewhere, and especially wi… English Horn , Eng·lish horn • n. Mus. an alto woodwind instrument of the oboe family, having a bulbous bell and sounding a fifth lower than the oboe.
English horn… Middle English Literature , Since the year 1169 and the Anglo-Norman "conquest," literature in Middle English started being written in Ireland. Its surviving quantity is compara… Psychrometer , psychrometer A hygrometer that has a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb thermometer. See also whirling psychrometer.
psychrometer Hygrometer with a wet-bulb and… Norse , NORSE Also Old Norse, Scandinavian, and (with particular reference to its use in England) DANISH. The SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES in an early, relatively…
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