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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... Bentley . LACTE'SCENCE.n.s . [ lactesco , Lat . ] Ten- dency to milk , or milky colour . This lactescence does commonly ensue , when wine , being impregnated with gums , or other vegetable concretions , that abound with sulphu- reous ...
... Bentley . LACTE'SCENCE.n.s . [ lactesco , Lat . ] Ten- dency to milk , or milky colour . This lactescence does commonly ensue , when wine , being impregnated with gums , or other vegetable concretions , that abound with sulphu- reous ...
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... Bentley . 2. Dull ; heartless . Addison . I'll hasten to my troops , And fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue . LANGUIDLY.adv . [ from languid . ] Weak- ly ; feebly . The menstruum work'd as languidly upon the coral as it did ...
... Bentley . 2. Dull ; heartless . Addison . I'll hasten to my troops , And fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue . LANGUIDLY.adv . [ from languid . ] Weak- ly ; feebly . The menstruum work'd as languidly upon the coral as it did ...
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... Bentley LARGESS.n.s . [ largesse , French . ] A pre- sent ; a gift ; a bounty . Our coffers with too great a court , And liberal largess , are grown somewhat light . He assigned two thousand ducats , for a bounty Shakspeare to me and my ...
... Bentley LARGESS.n.s . [ largesse , French . ] A pre- sent ; a gift ; a bounty . Our coffers with too great a court , And liberal largess , are grown somewhat light . He assigned two thousand ducats , for a bounty Shakspeare to me and my ...
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... Bentley . 2. Contrariety to rigorous precision ; as , laxity of expr of expression . 3. Looseness ; not costiveness . If sometimes it cause any laxity , it is in the same way with iron unprepared , which will dis- turb some bodies , and ...
... Bentley . 2. Contrariety to rigorous precision ; as , laxity of expr of expression . 3. Looseness ; not costiveness . If sometimes it cause any laxity , it is in the same way with iron unprepared , which will dis- turb some bodies , and ...
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... Bentley Learn , wretches ! learn the motions of the mind , And the great moral end of human kind . Dryd . 2. Skill in any thing good or bad . He removed to Cume ; and by the way was 1 LEA LEA Every man is not of a constitution to leap a ...
... Bentley Learn , wretches ! learn the motions of the mind , And the great moral end of human kind . Dryd . 2. Skill in any thing good or bad . He removed to Cume ; and by the way was 1 LEA LEA Every man is not of a constitution to leap a ...
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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