Helen Fenton

Antiburgher: Definition and part of speech

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Antiburgher

  1. n. One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Antic: Definition and part of speech

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Antic

  1. n. An antimask.
  2. a. Old; antique.
  3. a.
  4. a. Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.
  5. n. A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
  6. n. An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.
  7. n. A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.