Italian to English Dictionary (Dizionario Italiano-Inglese)

Bawn

A defensive wall or fortification built around an Irish castle or fortified house, historically used for enclosing and protecting cattle.

Belate

To make late; to cause to be delayed or tardy.

Bildungsroman

A novel that deals with the formative years, moral development, and psychological growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood.

Earnings-apportionment

The process or formula by which the earnings or profits of a corporation or business are distributed or allocated among different taxing jurisdictions, business segments, or beneficiaries.

Growlery

A private room or retreat to which one retires when in a bad mood or wishing to be alone.

Gules

In heraldry, the color red, represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines or in painting by a bright crimson.

Hoyle

An authoritative book of rules for card games or other games.

Kinar

The edge, margin, border, or shore of a body of water or land.

Leam

A ray of light; a gleam or flash.

Patriate

To legislate for the transfer of a colonial or dependent country's constitution from the mother country to its own jurisdiction.

Recalcitrant

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.

Recusant

A person who refuses to submit to an authority or comply with a regulation, especially a religious one.