English bond noun

A bricklayer's bond of alternate courses of headers and stretchers (cf Flemish bond)

English breakfast noun

A cooked breakfast, usu including bacon, eggs and tomatoes (cf continental breakfast)

English disease noun

The British disease

English flute noun

The recorder

English horn noun

The cor anglais

Engˈlishman or Engˈlishwoman noun

A native or naturalized inhabitant of England

English mustard noun

A hot, bright-yellow kind of mustard (the condiment)

English rose noun

An English girl with a fair complexion and regarded as classically beautiful

English sickness same as English disease above.

English sweat noun (old)

The sweating sickness (qv under sweat)

Basic English see under base¹

Early English

1. Often used vaguely, eg for early Middle English or for Middle and early Modern English
2. The form of Gothic architecture in which the pointed arch was first employed in Britain, succeeding the Norman towards the end of the 12c and merging into the Decorated at the end of the 13c (Early-English adjective)

in plain English

In clear, simple language

little Englander

1. A 19c British opponent of British imperialism and empire-building
2. A late-20c or early-21c British supporter of the view that Britain should retain its individual national identity rather than become part of a more integrated Europe

little Englanderism or Englandism

Middle English

The English used in Britain from about 1100 or 1150AD until about 1500

Modern English

The English used in Britain from about 1500 onwards

Old English

1. A kind of black-letter typeface (printing)
2. The English language up to about 1100 or 1150AD (formerly, and still popularly, called Anglo-Saxon)

presentment of Englishry (historical)

The offering of proof that a person murdered belonged to the English race, to escape the fine levied on the hundred or township for the murder of a Norman

Young England see under young