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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... Ecclesiasticus . LAUGH . n.s. [ from the verb . ] The con- vulsion caused by merriment ; an inar- ticulate expression of sudden merri- ment . Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain , Then hid in shades , eludes her eager swain ; But ...
... Ecclesiasticus . LAUGH . n.s. [ from the verb . ] The con- vulsion caused by merriment ; an inar- ticulate expression of sudden merri- ment . Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain , Then hid in shades , eludes her eager swain ; But ...
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... Ecclesiasticus . A stone was laid on the mouth of the den . Dan . 3. To beat down corn or grass . Another ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest . Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids ...
... Ecclesiasticus . A stone was laid on the mouth of the den . Dan . 3. To beat down corn or grass . Another ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest . Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids ...
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... Ecclesiasticus . There is a traverse placed in a loft , at the right hand of the chair , with a privy door , and a carved window of glass leaded with gold and blue , where the mother sitteth . Bacon . To LEAD . v . a . preter . I led ...
... Ecclesiasticus . There is a traverse placed in a loft , at the right hand of the chair , with a privy door , and a carved window of glass leaded with gold and blue , where the mother sitteth . Bacon . To LEAD . v . a . preter . I led ...
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... Ecclesiasticus . 3. To depart from , without action : as , I left things as I found them . When they were departed from him , they Ift him in great diseases . 4. To have remaining at death . 2 Chronicles . Ecclesiasticus . bling leather ...
... Ecclesiasticus . 3. To depart from , without action : as , I left things as I found them . When they were departed from him , they Ift him in great diseases . 4. To have remaining at death . 2 Chronicles . Ecclesiasticus . bling leather ...
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... Ecclesiasticus . 3. Portions of scripture read in divine service .. Notwithstanding so eminent properties , where- of lessons are happily destitute ; yet lessons being free from some inconveniencies whereunto ser- mons are most subject ...
... Ecclesiasticus . 3. Portions of scripture read in divine service .. Notwithstanding so eminent properties , where- of lessons are happily destitute ; yet lessons being free from some inconveniencies whereunto ser- mons are most subject ...
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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