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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... Watts . Aboy ; language . a young man , in pastoral For grief whereof the lad nould after joy , But pin'd in'd away in anguish , and self - will'd d annoy . Spenser . The shepherd lad , Whose offspring on the throne of Judah sat So many ...
... Watts . Aboy ; language . a young man , in pastoral For grief whereof the lad nould after joy , But pin'd in'd away in anguish , and self - will'd d annoy . Spenser . The shepherd lad , Whose offspring on the throne of Judah sat So many ...
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... Watts . I shall pay dear . Shakespeare's Twelfth Night . As an appeal may be deserted by the appel- lant's lapsing the term of law , so it may also be deserted by a lapse of the term of a judge . Ayliffe's Parergon . 5. To fall by the ...
... Watts . I shall pay dear . Shakespeare's Twelfth Night . As an appeal may be deserted by the appel- lant's lapsing the term of law , so it may also be deserted by a lapse of the term of a judge . Ayliffe's Parergon . 5. To fall by the ...
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... Watts . LARGELY . adv . [ from large . ] 1. Widely ; extensively . 2. Copiously ; diffusely ; amply . Where the author treats more largely , it will explain the shorter hints and brief intimations . 3. Liberally ; bounteously . How he ...
... Watts . LARGELY . adv . [ from large . ] 1. Widely ; extensively . 2. Copiously ; diffusely ; amply . Where the author treats more largely , it will explain the shorter hints and brief intimations . 3. Liberally ; bounteously . How he ...
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... Watts . LA'TISH . adj . [ from late . ] Somewhat late . LATIRO'STROus . adj . [ latus and rostrum , Latin . ] Broad - beaked . In quadrupeds , in regard of the figure of their heads the eyes are placed at some distance ; in latirestrous ...
... Watts . LA'TISH . adj . [ from late . ] Somewhat late . LATIRO'STROus . adj . [ latus and rostrum , Latin . ] Broad - beaked . In quadrupeds , in regard of the figure of their heads the eyes are placed at some distance ; in latirestrous ...
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... Watts . The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and , if not sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To place ; to put ; to reposite . This word being correlative to lie , involves . To put into any ...
... Watts . The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and , if not sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To place ; to put ; to reposite . This word being correlative to lie , involves . To put into any ...
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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