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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... French . ] 1. One who is employed in coarse and toilsome work . If a state run most to noblemen and gentle- men , and that the husbandmen be but as their work - folks and labourers , you may have a good cavalry , but never good stable ...
... French . ] 1. One who is employed in coarse and toilsome work . If a state run most to noblemen and gentle- men , and that the husbandmen be but as their work - folks and labourers , you may have a good cavalry , but never good stable ...
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... French lamper , and was repeated at the end of each couplet at carousals . Trev . ] A personal satire ; abuse ; censure written not to reform but vex . They say my talent is satire ; if so , it is a fruitful age ; they have sown the ...
... French lamper , and was repeated at the end of each couplet at carousals . Trev . ] A personal satire ; abuse ; censure written not to reform but vex . They say my talent is satire ; if so , it is a fruitful age ; they have sown the ...
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... French ; lin- gua , Latin . ] 1. Human speech . We may define language , if we consider it more materially , to be letters , forming and pro- ducing words and sentences ; but if we consider it according to the design thereof , then ...
... French ; lin- gua , Latin . ] 1. Human speech . We may define language , if we consider it more materially , to be letters , forming and pro- ducing words and sentences ; but if we consider it according to the design thereof , then ...
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... French ; from lard . ] The room where meat is kept or salted . This similitude is not borrowed of the larder house , but out of the school house . Flesh is ill kept in a room that is whereas in a cool and wet larder it longer . So have ...
... French ; from lard . ] The room where meat is kept or salted . This similitude is not borrowed of the larder house , but out of the school house . Flesh is ill kept in a room that is whereas in a cool and wet larder it longer . So have ...
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... French ; lawn , Dryden . Welsh . ] Lawn ; a plain extended be- tween woods . Hanmer . Under this thick - grown brake we'll shroud ourselves ; For through this laund anon the deer will come ; And in this covert will we make our stand ...
... French ; lawn , Dryden . Welsh . ] Lawn ; a plain extended be- tween woods . Hanmer . Under this thick - grown brake we'll shroud ourselves ; For through this laund anon the deer will come ; And in this covert will we make our stand ...
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| Title | 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 3 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
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