plural of first port of call

plural of wager of battel

Archaic form of wager of battle.

(Britain, law, historical) The giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes, and finally abolished in 1819. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus "waged", or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge.

plural of writ of right

plural of wager of battle

In an off-putting manner.

(logic) The logical principle that anything equals itself, expressed by the symbolic equation A=A.

A person who brings bad news

(historical) A self-governing colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1953 to 1963, located in southern Africa, and including Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland.