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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... Hudibras . Of somebody to hew and hack . LACKBRAIN . n . s . [ lack and brain . ] One that wants wit . What a lackbrain is this ? Our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid . Shakspeare . LACKER . n . 5. A kind of varnish , which ...
... Hudibras . Of somebody to hew and hack . LACKBRAIN . n . s . [ lack and brain . ] One that wants wit . What a lackbrain is this ? Our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid . Shakspeare . LACKER . n . 5. A kind of varnish , which ...
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... Hudibras . They saw the happiness of a private life , but they thought they had not enough make planted in it a double row of ivory , and made it the seat of smiles and blushes . Addison . 50. To LAY out . To display ; to discover . He ...
... Hudibras . They saw the happiness of a private life , but they thought they had not enough make planted in it a double row of ivory , and made it the seat of smiles and blushes . Addison . 50. To LAY out . To display ; to discover . He ...
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... Hudibras . Answer , or answer not , ' tis all the same , He lays me on , and makes me bear the blame . Dryden . 7. To LAY on . To act with vehemence : used of expences . My father has made her mistress Of the feast , and she lays it on ...
... Hudibras . Answer , or answer not , ' tis all the same , He lays me on , and makes me bear the blame . Dryden . 7. To LAY on . To act with vehemence : used of expences . My father has made her mistress Of the feast , and she lays it on ...
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... Hudibras . living comedy ; they are a leash of Dennis ' Letters . 3. A band wherewith to tie any thing in general . The ravished soul being shewn such game , would break those leashes that tie her to the body . Boyle . To LEASH . v . a ...
... Hudibras . living comedy ; they are a leash of Dennis ' Letters . 3. A band wherewith to tie any thing in general . The ravished soul being shewn such game , would break those leashes that tie her to the body . Boyle . To LEASH . v . a ...
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... Hudibras . Such intrigues people cannot meet with , who have nothing but legs to carry them . Audison . 2. An act of obeisance ; a bow with the leg drawn back . At coust , he that cannot make a leg , put off his cap , kiss his hand ...
... Hudibras . Such intrigues people cannot meet with , who have nothing but legs to carry them . Audison . 2. An act of obeisance ; a bow with the leg drawn back . At coust , he that cannot make a leg , put off his cap , kiss his hand ...
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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