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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... Dict . This label on my bosom ; whose containing Is so from sense in hardness , that I can Make no collection of it . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 2. Any thing appendant to a larger writ- ing . On the label of lead , the heads of St. Peter and ...
... Dict . This label on my bosom ; whose containing Is so from sense in hardness , that I can Make no collection of it . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 2. Any thing appendant to a larger writ- ing . On the label of lead , the heads of St. Peter and ...
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... Dict . From the apposition of different coloured gravel , arises for the most part , the laminated appearance of a stone . Sharp . To LAMM . v . a . To beat soundly with a cudgel . LAMMAS . n . s . [ This word is said by Bailey , I know ...
... Dict . From the apposition of different coloured gravel , arises for the most part , the laminated appearance of a stone . Sharp . To LAMM . v . a . To beat soundly with a cudgel . LAMMAS . n . s . [ This word is said by Bailey , I know ...
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... Dict . LA ́RKSPUR . n . s . [ delphinium . ] A plant . LARVATED . adj . [ larvatus , Lat . ] Mask- Dict . ed . LA RUM . n . s . [ from alarum or alarm . ] 1. Alarm ; noise noting danger . His larum bell might loud and wide be heard ...
... Dict . LA ́RKSPUR . n . s . [ delphinium . ] A plant . LARVATED . adj . [ larvatus , Lat . ] Mask- Dict . ed . LA RUM . n . s . [ from alarum or alarm . ] 1. Alarm ; noise noting danger . His larum bell might loud and wide be heard ...
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... Dict . LINTNER . n . s . A kind of hawk . I should enlarge my discourse to the observa- tion of the haggard , and the two sorts of lentners . Walton's Angler . LENTOR . n . s . [ lentor , Lat . lenteur , tr . ] 1. Tenacity ; viscosity ...
... Dict . LINTNER . n . s . A kind of hawk . I should enlarge my discourse to the observa- tion of the haggard , and the two sorts of lentners . Walton's Angler . LENTOR . n . s . [ lentor , Lat . lenteur , tr . ] 1. Tenacity ; viscosity ...
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... Dict . Trev . Those planets which move upon their axis , do not all make intire revolutions ; for the moon maketh only a kind of libration , or a reciprocated mction on her own axis . Grew . LIBRATORY . adj . [ from libre , Lat . ] Ba ...
... Dict . Trev . Those planets which move upon their axis , do not all make intire revolutions ; for the moon maketh only a kind of libration , or a reciprocated mction on her own axis . Grew . LIBRATORY . adj . [ from libre , Lat . ] Ba ...
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