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iris diseases (medicine) and Saxon (iou)


iris diseases (medicine)


iris diseases
Diseases, dysfunctions, or disorders of or located in the iris.


Saxon (iou)



Saxon noun & adjective. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin Saxo(n-), pl. Saxones = Greek Saxones from West Germanic (whence Old English pl. Seaxan, Seaxe, Old Saxon, Old High German Sahso, German Sachse), perh. from base of SAX noun1. Cf. FRANK noun1.]
A. noun.
A member of a Germanic people living in northern Germany in the early Christian era, of which one portion conquered and occupied parts of southern Britain in the 5th and 6th cents.; an Anglo-Saxon; loosely a member of any of the Germanic peoples that settled in Britain. ME.
b. An English person who is presumed to be of Saxon descent; (esp. among Celtic speakers) an English person as distinct from a Welsh or Irish person, a Lowland Scot as distinct from a Highlander, (cf. SASSENACH). Also, any person of English or British descent, esp. as opp. to one of Latin descent. E19.
The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon, Old English. LME.
A native or inhabitant of Saxony in Germany. M18.
A kind of firework. Now rare or obsolete. M19.
A noctuid moth, Hyppa rectilinea. M19.
b. adjective.
Designating, of, or pertaining to the Saxons or their language; Anglo-Saxon. LME.
b. Architecture. Designating, of, or pertaining to the Romanesque style used in England in the Saxon period. E18.
c. Esp. among Celtic speakers: English as opp. to Welsh, Irish, or Gaelic. Also, of English or British descent, esp. as opp. to Latin. L18.
Of or pertaining to Saxony in Germany. M17.
Phrases: Norman Saxon: see NORMAN adjective 1. Old Saxon a member of, of or pertaining to, the Saxon peoples who remained in Germany, as opp. to an Anglo-Saxon; (of) the language of the Old Saxons, esp. as exemplified in 9th-cent. poetry; Saxon blue = Saxony blue s.v. SAXONY adjective. Saxon green cobalt green.
Saxondom noun = ANGLO-SAXONDOM M19.
Saxonish adjective of the Saxons; resembling what is Saxon: M16.
Saxonism noun = ANGLO-SAXONISM L18.
Saxonist noun (a) an expert in or student of Anglo-Saxon or the Anglo-Saxons; (b) an advocate of the use of English words of purely Anglo-Saxon origin: L16.
Saxonize verb trans. & intrans. make or become Saxon or Anglo-Saxon E19.
Saxonly adverb in a Saxon manner; in the Saxon tongue: LME.