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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... Maccabees . Had you requir'd my helpful hand , Th ' artificer and art you might command , To labour arms for Troy . Dryden's Æneid . An eager desire to know something concerning him , has occasioned mankind to labour the point , under ...
... Maccabees . Had you requir'd my helpful hand , Th ' artificer and art you might command , To labour arms for Troy . Dryden's Æneid . An eager desire to know something concerning him , has occasioned mankind to labour the point , under ...
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... Maccabees . A scheme which was writ some years since , and laid by to be ready on a fit occasion . Swift . LAIN . Preterit participle of lie . Mary seeth two angels in white , sitting , the one at the head , and the other at the feet ...
... Maccabees . A scheme which was writ some years since , and laid by to be ready on a fit occasion . Swift . LAIN . Preterit participle of lie . Mary seeth two angels in white , sitting , the one at the head , and the other at the feet ...
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... Maccabees . Lamentation for him . LAMENTER . n.s. [ from lament . ] He who mourns or laments . Such a complaint good company must pity , whether they think the lamenter ill or not . Spectator . LA ' MENTINE . n . 5. A fish called a sea ...
... Maccabees . Lamentation for him . LAMENTER . n.s. [ from lament . ] He who mourns or laments . Such a complaint good company must pity , whether they think the lamenter ill or not . Spectator . LA ' MENTINE . n . 5. A fish called a sea ...
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... Maccabees . My father , when some days before his death He ordered me to march for Utica , Wept o'er me . Addison's Cate . 2. To walk in a grave , deliberate , or state- ly manner . Plexirtus finding that if nothing else , famine would ...
... Maccabees . My father , when some days before his death He ordered me to march for Utica , Wept o'er me . Addison's Cate . 2. To walk in a grave , deliberate , or state- ly manner . Plexirtus finding that if nothing else , famine would ...
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... Maccabees . Lodronius , carried away with the breaking in of the horsemen , was driven into a marish ; where , being sore wounded , and fast in the mud , he had done the uttermost . Knolles . His limbs he coucheth in the cooler shades ...
... Maccabees . Lodronius , carried away with the breaking in of the horsemen , was driven into a marish ; where , being sore wounded , and fast in the mud , he had done the uttermost . Knolles . His limbs he coucheth in the cooler shades ...
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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