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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... Spenser . TO LA'NIATE . v . a . [ lanio , Latin . ] To tear in pieces ; to lacerate . LANIFICE . n . s ... Spenser . Upon a day , as love lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m ...
... Spenser . TO LA'NIATE . v . a . [ lanio , Latin . ] To tear in pieces ; to lacerate . LANIFICE . n . s ... Spenser . Upon a day , as love lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m ...
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... Spenser , in the following exam- ple . ] A part of a county . If all that tything failed , then all that lath was charged for that tything ; and if the lath failed , than all that hundred was demanded for them ; and if the hundred ...
... Spenser , in the following exam- ple . ] A part of a county . If all that tything failed , then all that lath was charged for that tything ; and if the lath failed , than all that hundred was demanded for them ; and if the hundred ...
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... Spenser . And laid about in fight more busily , Than th ' Amazonian dame Penthesile . Hudib . In the late successful rebellion , how studiously did they lay about them , to cast a slur upon the king ? South . He provides elbow - room ...
... Spenser . And laid about in fight more busily , Than th ' Amazonian dame Penthesile . Hudib . In the late successful rebellion , how studiously did they lay about them , to cast a slur upon the king ? South . He provides elbow - room ...
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... Spenser . ! 1 Leave to thy children tumult , strife ,. The remedies , if any , are to be proposed from a constant course of the milken diet , continued at least a year . Temple . A fiend may deceive a creature of more ex- cellency than ...
... Spenser . ! 1 Leave to thy children tumult , strife ,. The remedies , if any , are to be proposed from a constant course of the milken diet , continued at least a year . Temple . A fiend may deceive a creature of more ex- cellency than ...
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... Spenser's Fairy Queen . Herwords prevail'd , and then the learned leech His canaing hand ' gan to his wounds to lay , And all things else the which his art did teach . Fairy Queen . Patience . Physick is their bane . The learned leeches ...
... Spenser's Fairy Queen . Herwords prevail'd , and then the learned leech His canaing hand ' gan to his wounds to lay , And all things else the which his art did teach . Fairy Queen . Patience . Physick is their bane . The learned leeches ...
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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