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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... blood be fir'd with wine , He's cautious to avoid the coach and six , And on the lackeys will no quarrel fix . Dryden . Lacqueys were never so saucy and pragmatical as they are now - a - days . Addison's Spectator . TO LACKEY . v . a ...
... blood be fir'd with wine , He's cautious to avoid the coach and six , And on the lackeys will no quarrel fix . Dryden . Lacqueys were never so saucy and pragmatical as they are now - a - days . Addison's Spectator . TO LACKEY . v . a ...
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... blood . LACTEAL . n . 5. The vessel that conveys chyle . Locke . The mouths of the lacteals may permit ali- ment ... blood ; but say , if the pot boils too fast , there is no need of lading out any of the water , but only of taking ...
... blood . LACTEAL . n . 5. The vessel that conveys chyle . Locke . The mouths of the lacteals may permit ali- ment ... blood ; but say , if the pot boils too fast , there is no need of lading out any of the water , but only of taking ...
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... blood languid , disposeth to an acid acrimony ; what accelerates the motion of the blood , disposeth to an alkaline acrimony . Arbuthnot . No space can be assigned so vast , but still a larger may be imagined ; no motion so swift or ...
... blood languid , disposeth to an acid acrimony ; what accelerates the motion of the blood , disposeth to an alkaline acrimony . Arbuthnot . No space can be assigned so vast , but still a larger may be imagined ; no motion so swift or ...
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... blood by lateral branches , separate the next thinner fluid or serum , the diameters of which lateral branches are less than the diameters of the blood - vessels . Arbuthnob . 2. Placed , or acting on the side . Forth rush the Levant ...
... blood by lateral branches , separate the next thinner fluid or serum , the diameters of which lateral branches are less than the diameters of the blood - vessels . Arbuthnob . 2. Placed , or acting on the side . Forth rush the Levant ...
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... blood . Pope . 2. That part of divine worship which con- sists in praise . We have certain hymns and services , which we say daily of laud and thanks to God for his marvellous works . Bacon . In the book of Psalms , the lauds make up a ...
... blood . Pope . 2. That part of divine worship which con- sists in praise . We have certain hymns and services , which we say daily of laud and thanks to God for his marvellous works . Bacon . In the book of Psalms , the lauds make up a ...
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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