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Word Meanings - EASTERLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The smew. (more info) 1. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us.

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The smew. (more info) 1. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed. 2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.

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    Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
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    In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
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    In a gymnastic manner.
  • EMANATIVE
    Issuing forth; effluent.
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