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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... Dutch . ] The couch of a boar , or wild beast . Out of the ground uprose , As from his lair , the wild beast , where he wons In forest wild , in thicket , brake or den . Milton . But range the forest by the silver side Of some cool ...
... Dutch . ] The couch of a boar , or wild beast . Out of the ground uprose , As from his lair , the wild beast , where he wons In forest wild , in thicket , brake or den . Milton . But range the forest by the silver side Of some cool ...
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... Dutch . ] 1. A region ; the prospect of a country . Lovely seem'd , That landscape ! and of pure , now purer air , Meets his approach . Milton The sun scarce uprisen , Shot parallel to th ' earth his dewy ray , Discovering in wide ...
... Dutch . ] 1. A region ; the prospect of a country . Lovely seem'd , That landscape ! and of pure , now purer air , Meets his approach . Milton The sun scarce uprisen , Shot parallel to th ' earth his dewy ray , Discovering in wide ...
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... 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 lank and lean with thy extortions , Shaksp . Name not Winterface , whose skin's slack , Lank ...
... 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 lank and lean with thy extortions , Shaksp . Name not Winterface , whose skin's slack , Lank ...
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... Dutch , to strike ; whence slash and lash . ] 1. A stroke with any thing pliant and tough . From hence are heard the groans of ghosts , the pains Of sounding lashes , and of dragging chains . Dryd . Rous'd by the lash of his own ...
... Dutch , to strike ; whence slash and lash . ] 1. A stroke with any thing pliant and tough . From hence are heard the groans of ghosts , the pains Of sounding lashes , and of dragging chains . Dryd . Rous'd by the lash of his own ...
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... Dutch . ] 1. Latest ; that follows all the rest in time . Why are ye the last to bring the king back ? Samuel . O , may some spark of your celestial fire , The last , the meanest , of your sons inspire ! Pope . 3. Hindmost ; which ...
... Dutch . ] 1. Latest ; that follows all the rest in time . Why are ye the last to bring the king back ? Samuel . O , may some spark of your celestial fire , The last , the meanest , of your sons inspire ! Pope . 3. Hindmost ; which ...
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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