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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... Brown . LACTARY . n . s . [ lactarium , Lat . ] dairy - house . LACTATION . n . s . [ lacto , Lat . ] The act or time of giving suck . LA'CTEAL . adj . [ from lac , Lat . ] Milky ; conveying chyle of the colour of milk . As the food ...
... Brown . LACTARY . n . s . [ lactarium , Lat . ] dairy - house . LACTATION . n . s . [ lacto , Lat . ] The act or time of giving suck . LA'CTEAL . adj . [ from lac , Lat . ] Milky ; conveying chyle of the colour of milk . As the food ...
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... Brown's Vulgar Errors . Hippocrates saith , blood - letting should be done with broad lancets or swords , in order to make a large orifice : the manner of opening a vein then was by stabbing or pertusion , as in horses . Arbuthnot . To ...
... Brown's Vulgar Errors . Hippocrates saith , blood - letting should be done with broad lancets or swords , in order to make a large orifice : the manner of opening a vein then was by stabbing or pertusion , as in horses . Arbuthnot . To ...
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... Brown . LA'TITANCY . n . s . [ from latitans , Lat . ] Delitescence ; the state of lying bid . In vipers she has abridged their malignity by their succession or latitanoy . Brown's Vulg . Etr . LA'TITANT . adj . [ latitans , Latin ...
... Brown . LA'TITANCY . n . s . [ from latitans , Lat . ] Delitescence ; the state of lying bid . In vipers she has abridged their malignity by their succession or latitanoy . Brown's Vulg . Etr . LA'TITANT . adj . [ latitans , Latin ...
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... Brown's Vulg . Errours . The right to Pluto's golden palace guides , The left to that unhappy region tends , Which to the depth of Tartarus descends . Dryd . The gods of greater nations dwell around , And , on the right and left , the ...
... Brown's Vulg . Errours . The right to Pluto's golden palace guides , The left to that unhappy region tends , Which to the depth of Tartarus descends . Dryd . The gods of greater nations dwell around , And , on the right and left , the ...
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... Brown . LEGISLATION . n . s . [ from legislator , Lat . ] The act of giving laws . Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy , and , like others , pretended to miracles and reve- lations from God , to give a more venerable ...
... Brown . LEGISLATION . n . s . [ from legislator , Lat . ] The act of giving laws . Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy , and , like others , pretended to miracles and reve- lations from God , to give a more venerable ...
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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