Saxon

adj : of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or

Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the

English or Lowland Scots) and their language; "Saxon

princes"; "for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon

term instead of a latinate one" [syn: {Saxon}]

n : a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and

merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons;

dominant in England until the Norman conquest [syn: {Saxon}]