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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... Sbaksp . LAUREATE . adj . [ laureatus , Lat . ] Decked or invested with a laurel . Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed , And daffodillies fill their cups with tears , To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies . Milton . Soft on her ...
... Sbaksp . LAUREATE . adj . [ laureatus , Lat . ] Decked or invested with a laurel . Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed , And daffodillies fill their cups with tears , To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies . Milton . Soft on her ...
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... Sbaksp . LEGA'TION . # . s . [ legatio , Lat . ] Deputa- tion ; commission ; embassy . After a legation , ad res repetendas , and a refu- sal and a denunciation or indiction of a war , the war is no more confined to the place of the qua ...
... Sbaksp . LEGA'TION . # . s . [ legatio , Lat . ] Deputa- tion ; commission ; embassy . After a legation , ad res repetendas , and a refu- sal and a denunciation or indiction of a war , the war is no more confined to the place of the qua ...
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... Sbaksp . Macbeth . You must lay lime , to tangle her desires , By wailful sonnets , whose composed rhimes Should be full fraught with serviceable vows . Shakspeare . Jollier of this state Than are new - benefic'd ministers , he throws ...
... Sbaksp . Macbeth . You must lay lime , to tangle her desires , By wailful sonnets , whose composed rhimes Should be full fraught with serviceable vows . Shakspeare . Jollier of this state Than are new - benefic'd ministers , he throws ...
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... Sbaksp . Encouragement that abatement of interest gave to landlords and tenants , to improve by draining , marling , and liming . Child . All sorts of pease love limed or marled land . Mortimer . LIM LIMEKILN . n . s . [ lime and kiln ...
... Sbaksp . Encouragement that abatement of interest gave to landlords and tenants , to improve by draining , marling , and liming . Child . All sorts of pease love limed or marled land . Mortimer . LIM LIMEKILN . n . s . [ lime and kiln ...
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... Sbaksp . Thy father is a man of war , and will not lodge with the people . Samuel . 3. To take up residence at night . My lords And soldiers , stay and lodge with me this night . Shakspeare . Oh , that I had in the wilderness a lodging ...
... Sbaksp . Thy father is a man of war , and will not lodge with the people . Samuel . 3. To take up residence at night . My lords And soldiers , stay and lodge with me this night . Shakspeare . Oh , that I had in the wilderness a lodging ...
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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 | 8 Sep 2006 |
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