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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... Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Cato . Addison . LABORIOUSLY . adv . [ from laborious . ] With labour ; with toil . The ...
... Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Cato . Addison . LABORIOUSLY . adv . [ from laborious . ] With labour ; with toil . The ...
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... Prior . To LACE . v . a . [ from the noun . ] 1. To fasten with a string run through eilet holes . I caused a fomentation to be made , and put on a laced sock , by which the weak parts were strengthened . Wiseman . At this , for new ...
... Prior . To LACE . v . a . [ from the noun . ] 1. To fasten with a string run through eilet holes . I caused a fomentation to be made , and put on a laced sock , by which the weak parts were strengthened . Wiseman . At this , for new ...
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... Prior . I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground , capable of holding four of the inhabitants , with two or three ladders to mount Gulliver's Travels , it . 2. Any thing by which one climbs . Then took she help to ...
... Prior . I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground , capable of holding four of the inhabitants , with two or three ladders to mount Gulliver's Travels , it . 2. Any thing by which one climbs . Then took she help to ...
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... Prior . LAVISH . adj . [ Of this word I have been able to find no satisfactory etymo- logy . It may be plausibly derived from to lave , to throw out ; as profun- dere opes , is to be lavish . ] 1. Prodigal ; wasteful ; indiscreetly ...
... Prior . LAVISH . adj . [ Of this word I have been able to find no satisfactory etymo- logy . It may be plausibly derived from to lave , to throw out ; as profun- dere opes , is to be lavish . ] 1. Prodigal ; wasteful ; indiscreetly ...
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... Prior . 2. To compress , as beasts . Too soon they must not feel the sting of love : Let him not leap the cow . Dryden's Gearg . LEAP . n . s . [ from the verb . ] 1. Bound ; jump ; act of leaping . 2. Space passed by leaping . After ...
... Prior . 2. To compress , as beasts . Too soon they must not feel the sting of love : Let him not leap the cow . Dryden's Gearg . LEAP . n . s . [ from the verb . ] 1. Bound ; jump ; act of leaping . 2. Space passed by leaping . After ...
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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