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 |
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The troops with hate inspir'd , gua , Latin . ) Their darts with clamour at a distance drive , 1. Human speech . And only keep the languish'd war alive . Dryden . We may define language , if we consider it more materially , to be ...
The troops with hate inspir'd , gua , Latin . ) Their darts with clamour at a distance drive , 1. Human speech . And only keep the languish'd war alive . Dryden . We may define language , if we consider it more materially , to be ...
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[ latens , Latin . ] Hidden ; The fee - farms reserved upon charters granted concealed ; secret . to cities and towns corporate , and the blanch If we look into its retired movements , and rents and lath siiver answered by the sheriffs ...
[ latens , Latin . ] Hidden ; The fee - farms reserved upon charters granted concealed ; secret . to cities and towns corporate , and the blanch If we look into its retired movements , and rents and lath siiver answered by the sheriffs ...
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[ latitans , Latin . ) Deli- LATRI A. n . s . ( Latins dalgsize ; larrie ! tescent ; concealed ; lying hid . Fr. ) The highest kind of worship : Snakes and lizzards , latitant many months in distinguished by the papists from dulia ...
[ latitans , Latin . ) Deli- LATRI A. n . s . ( Latins dalgsize ; larrie ! tescent ; concealed ; lying hid . Fr. ) The highest kind of worship : Snakes and lizzards , latitant many months in distinguished by the papists from dulia ...
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[ laus , Latin . ] With full spread sails to run before the wind : 1. Praise ; bonour paid ; celebration . But those that ' gainst stiff gales laveering go , Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were Must be at once resolv'd ...
[ laus , Latin . ] With full spread sails to run before the wind : 1. Praise ; bonour paid ; celebration . But those that ' gainst stiff gales laveering go , Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were Must be at once resolv'd ...
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[ lentus , Latin . ] Viscous ; spectacle - glass , or an object glass of a telescope . tenacious ; capable to be drawn out . Newton . In this spawn of a lentous and transparent body , According to the difference of the lenses , I are to ...
[ lentus , Latin . ] Viscous ; spectacle - glass , or an object glass of a telescope . tenacious ; capable to be drawn out . Newton . In this spawn of a lentous and transparent body , According to the difference of the lenses , I are to ...
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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 | 7 Sep 2006 |
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