British : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: British	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for British
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
British adj of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture; "his wife is British" n the people of Great Britain [syn: British, {British people}, Brits]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
British \Brit"ish\, n. pl. People of Great Britain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
British \Brit"ish\ (br[icr]t"[icr]sh), a. [AS. Brittisc, Bryttisc.] Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants. {British gum}, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600[f8] Fahr. It corresponds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. {British lion}, the national emblem of Great Britain. {British seas}, the four seas which surround Great Britain.