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A word identifying a person or a group of people in relation to a particular place, usually derived from the name of the place (which may be any kind of place, formal or informal, of any size or scale, from a town or city to a region, province, country, or continent) and used to describe all residents or natives of that place, regardless of any ...
Alternating caps, [1] also known as studly caps [a], sticky caps (where "caps" is short for capital letters), or spongecase (in reference to the "Mocking Spongebob" internet meme) is a form of text notation in which the capitalization of letters varies by some pattern, or arbitrarily (often also omitting spaces between words and occasionally some letters).
The British Naval Ensign or flag of the British Merchant Navy, a red flag with the Union Flag in the upper left corner. Colloquially called the "red duster". class 1. Strictly, a group of government ships, especially naval ships, of the same or similar design. 2. Informally, a group of private or commercial ships of the same or similar design. 3.
1. The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; used in many combinations, such as peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. [2] 2. The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. 3. The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. peaks The uppermost brails on the mainsail. Upper and lower peaks are normal, but a barge may carry a third set ...
Pre-1921 Latvian letter ᵰ N with middle tilde 𝼧 N with mid-height left hook: Used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language. [44] Ņ ņ: N with cedilla: Latvian Ņ̂ ņ̂: N with cedilla and circumflex: Accented Latvian Ņ̃ ņ̃: N with cedilla and tilde: Accented Latvian ...
Arm: Couter or cowter: Plate that guards the elbow. Eventually became articulated. May be covered by guard of vambrace (see below). Spaulder: Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit. Pauldron: 15th: Covers the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and ...
The upper section of an entablature or a projecting shelf along the top of a wall often supported by brackets or corbels. Course A layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. Cresting Ornamentation along the ridge of a roof. Cross Springer A block from which the diagonal ribs of a vault spring or start.
The following were scribal abbreviations during Middle and Early Modern English using the letter thorn: (þͤ) – a Middle English abbreviation for the word the (þͭ) – a Middle English abbreviation for the word that (þͧ) – a rare Middle English abbreviation for the word thou (which was written early on as þu or þou)