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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... L'Estrange uses , or by corruption of lash . Go you , and find me out a man that has no curiosity at all , or I'll lace your coat for ye . L'Estrange . LACED Mutton . An old word for a whore . Ay , Sir , I , a lost mutton , gave your ...
... L'Estrange uses , or by corruption of lash . Go you , and find me out a man that has no curiosity at all , or I'll lace your coat for ye . L'Estrange . LACED Mutton . An old word for a whore . Ay , Sir , I , a lost mutton , gave your ...
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... burnt and With their rich lading to the bottom went . Wal . The storm grows higher and higher , and threatens the utter loss of the ship : there is but South . L'Estrange . Why should he sink where nothing. rent cases . LAD LAD.
... burnt and With their rich lading to the bottom went . Wal . The storm grows higher and higher , and threatens the utter loss of the ship : there is but South . L'Estrange . Why should he sink where nothing. rent cases . LAD LAD.
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... L'Estrange . The tongue serves not only for tasting , but for mastication and deglutition , in man , by lick- ing ; in the dog and cat kind by lapping . Ray on Creation . To LAP . v . a . To lick up . For all the rest They'll take ...
... L'Estrange . The tongue serves not only for tasting , but for mastication and deglutition , in man , by lick- ing ; in the dog and cat kind by lapping . Ray on Creation . To LAP . v . a . To lick up . For all the rest They'll take ...
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... L'Estrange . They sometimes an hasty kiss Steal from unwary lasses ; they with scorn , And neck reclin'd , resent . Philips . LA'SSITUDE . n . s . [ lassitudo , Latin , las- situde , French . ] 1. Weariness ; fatigue ; the pain arising ...
... L'Estrange . They sometimes an hasty kiss Steal from unwary lasses ; they with scorn , And neck reclin'd , resent . Philips . LA'SSITUDE . n . s . [ lassitudo , Latin , las- situde , French . ] 1. Weariness ; fatigue ; the pain arising ...
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... L'Estrange . Hosea . 15. To propagate plants by fixing their twigs in the ground . The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July , when the flowers are gone . 16. To wager ; to stake . Mortimer . But since you will be mad , and since ...
... L'Estrange . Hosea . 15. To propagate plants by fixing their twigs in the ground . The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July , when the flowers are gone . 16. To wager ; to stake . Mortimer . But since you will be mad , and since ...
Common terms and phrases
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