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 . scorn of his enemies . Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain , Then hid in shades , eludes ...
... Ecclesiasticus . LAUGH . n . s . [ from the verb . ] The con- vulsion caused by merriment ; an inar- ticulate expression of sudden merri- ment . scorn of his enemies . Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain , Then hid in shades , eludes ...
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... Ecclesiasticus . A stone was laid on the mouth of the den . Dan . 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 the ...
... Ecclesiasticus . A stone was laid on the mouth of the den . Dan . 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 the ...
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... Ecclesiasticus . 1 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 . 1 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 left him in great diseases . 2 Chronicles . 4. To have remaining at death . There be of them that have ...
... Ecclesiasticus . 3. To depart from , without action : as , I left things as I found them . When they were departed from him , they left him in great diseases . 2 Chronicles . 4. To have remaining at death . There be of them that have ...
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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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