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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... Shaks The lecher soon transforms his mistress ; now In lö's place appears a lovely cow . The sleepy acher shuts his little eves , Dryden . About his churning chaps the frothy bubbles rise . Dryden . 2 . 3. Any prominence , or rising ...
... Shaks The lecher soon transforms his mistress ; now In lö's place appears a lovely cow . The sleepy acher shuts his little eves , Dryden . About his churning chaps the frothy bubbles rise . Dryden . 2 . 3. Any prominence , or rising ...
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... Shaks . Merry Wives of Windsor . Aside the devil turn'd For envy , yet with jealous leer malign Ey'd them askance . Milton . 2. A laboured cast of countenance . Damn with faint praise , concede with civil leer . Pope . I place a ...
... Shaks . Merry Wives of Windsor . Aside the devil turn'd For envy , yet with jealous leer malign Ey'd them askance . Milton . 2. A laboured cast of countenance . Damn with faint praise , concede with civil leer . Pope . I place a ...
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... Shaks . The leper in whom the plague is , his cloaths shall be rent . Leviticus . LE PEROUS . adj . [ formed from leprous , to make out a verse . ] Causing leprosy ; infected with leprosy ; leprous . Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole ...
... Shaks . The leper in whom the plague is , his cloaths shall be rent . Leviticus . LE PEROUS . adj . [ formed from leprous , to make out a verse . ] Causing leprosy ; infected with leprosy ; leprous . Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole ...
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... Shaks . The public outrages of a destroying tyranny are but childish appetites , let alone till they are grown ungovernable . L'Estrange's Fables . Let me alone to accuse him afterwards . Dryd . This is of no use , and had been better ...
... Shaks . The public outrages of a destroying tyranny are but childish appetites , let alone till they are grown ungovernable . L'Estrange's Fables . Let me alone to accuse him afterwards . Dryd . This is of no use , and had been better ...
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... Shaks . Olight , which mak'st the light which makes the day , Which sett'st the eye without , and mind within ; Lighten my spirit with one clear heav'nly ray , Which now to view itself doth first begin . Dav . A key of fire ran all ...
... Shaks . Olight , which mak'st the light which makes the day , Which sett'st the eye without , and mind within ; Lighten my spirit with one clear heav'nly ray , Which now to view itself doth first begin . Dav . A key of fire ran all ...
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