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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... Ben Jonson . was called to another , who in childbed la- boured of an ulcer in her left hip . Wiseman . To be in distress ; to be pressed . To this infernal lake the fury flies , Here hides her hated head , and frees the fab'ring Dryden ...
... Ben Jonson . was called to another , who in childbed la- boured of an ulcer in her left hip . Wiseman . To be in distress ; to be pressed . To this infernal lake the fury flies , Here hides her hated head , and frees the fab'ring Dryden ...
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... Ben Jonson's Catiline . I the wronged pen to please , Make it my humble thanks express Unto your ladyship in these . Waller . Miller . ' Tis Galla ; let her ladyship but peep . Dryden . LADY'S - SLIPPER . n.s. [ calceolus . ] A plant ...
... Ben Jonson's Catiline . I the wronged pen to please , Make it my humble thanks express Unto your ladyship in these . Waller . Miller . ' Tis Galla ; let her ladyship but peep . Dryden . LADY'S - SLIPPER . n.s. [ calceolus . ] A plant ...
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... Ben Jonson Some stow their oars , or stop the leaky sides , Another bolder yet the yard bestrides , And folds the sails ; a fourth with labour laves Th ' intruding seas , and waves eject on waves . To LAVE . v . n . To wash himself ...
... Ben Jonson Some stow their oars , or stop the leaky sides , Another bolder yet the yard bestrides , And folds the sails ; a fourth with labour laves Th ' intruding seas , and waves eject on waves . To LAVE . v . n . To wash himself ...
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... Ben Jonson . LE ADWORT.n.s . [ plumbago . ] A plant . LEAF.n.s. leaves , plural . [ leaf , Saxon ; leef , Dutch . ] 1. The green deciduous parts of plants and flowers . This is the state of man ; to - day he puts forth The tender ...
... Ben Jonson . LE ADWORT.n.s . [ plumbago . ] A plant . LEAF.n.s. leaves , plural . [ leaf , Saxon ; leef , Dutch . ] 1. The green deciduous parts of plants and flowers . This is the state of man ; to - day he puts forth The tender ...
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... Ben Jonson . The symptoms of too great fluidity are excess of universal secretions , as of perspiration , sweat , urine , liquid dejectures , leanness , and weakness . Arbuthnot . 2. Want of matter ; thinness ; poverty . The poor king ...
... Ben Jonson . The symptoms of too great fluidity are excess of universal secretions , as of perspiration , sweat , urine , liquid dejectures , leanness , and weakness . Arbuthnot . 2. Want of matter ; thinness ; poverty . The poor king ...
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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