A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... Bacon . wet . LA'NIGEROUS . adj . [ laniger , Lat . ] Bear- ing wool . LANK . adj . [ lancke , Dutch . ] 1. Loose ; not filled up ; not stiffened out ; not fat ; not plump ; slender . The commons hast thou rack'd ; the clergy's bags Are ...
... Bacon . wet . LA'NIGEROUS . adj . [ laniger , Lat . ] Bear- ing wool . LANK . adj . [ lancke , Dutch . ] 1. Loose ; not filled up ; not stiffened out ; not fat ; not plump ; slender . The commons hast thou rack'd ; the clergy's bags Are ...
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... Bacon . Dorset . The more he still abouads , the less content ; His larder and his kitchen too observes , And now , lest he should want hereafter , starves . King . LA'RDERER . n . s . [ from larder . ] One who has the charge of the ...
... Bacon . Dorset . The more he still abouads , the less content ; His larder and his kitchen too observes , And now , lest he should want hereafter , starves . King . LA'RDERER . n . s . [ from larder . ] One who has the charge of the ...
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... Bacon . LA WGIVER . n . s . [ law and giver . ] Le- gislator ; one that makes laws . Solomon we esteem as the lawgiver of our Bacon . A law may be very reasonable in itself , al- though one does not know the reason of the lawgivers ...
... Bacon . LA WGIVER . n . s . [ law and giver . ] Le- gislator ; one that makes laws . Solomon we esteem as the lawgiver of our Bacon . A law may be very reasonable in itself , al- though one does not know the reason of the lawgivers ...
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... Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids the flowery meadows lay . May . 4. To keep from rising ; to settle ; to still . I'll use th ' advantage of my power , And lay the summer's dust with showers of ...
... Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids the flowery meadows lay . May . 4. To keep from rising ; to settle ; to still . I'll use th ' advantage of my power , And lay the summer's dust with showers of ...
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... Bacon . All soft'ning simples , known of sov'reign use , He presses out , and pours their noble juice ; These first infus'd , to lenify the pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Dryd . LE'NITIVE . adj . [ lenitif , Fr ...
... Bacon . All soft'ning simples , known of sov'reign use , He presses out , and pours their noble juice ; These first infus'd , to lenify the pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Dryd . LE'NITIVE . adj . [ lenitif , Fr ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison Æneid Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look loose lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb Waller Watts word Wotton young