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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... body , are to be discerned many specks which become black , a substance more compacted and terres- trious than the other ; for it riseth not in dis- tillation . Brown . LE'OD . n.s. Leod signifies the people ; or , rather , a nation ...
... body , are to be discerned many specks which become black , a substance more compacted and terres- trious than the other ; for it riseth not in dis- tillation . Brown . LE'OD . n.s. Leod signifies the people ; or , rather , a nation ...
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... body . Dryden's Dufresnoy . Their pinions still In loose librations stretch'd , to trust the void Trembling refuse . Thomson's Spring . s . [ In astronomy . ] Libration is the balancing motion or trepida- tion in the firmament , whereby ...
... body . Dryden's Dufresnoy . Their pinions still In loose librations stretch'd , to trust the void Trembling refuse . Thomson's Spring . s . [ In astronomy . ] Libration is the balancing motion or trepida- tion in the firmament , whereby ...
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... body , destin'd to that living grave ; The liquorish hag rejects the pelf with scorn , And nothing but the man would serve her turn . Dryden . In some provinces they were so liquerish after man's flesh , that they would suck the blood ...
... body , destin'd to that living grave ; The liquorish hag rejects the pelf with scorn , And nothing but the man would serve her turn . Dryden . In some provinces they were so liquerish after man's flesh , that they would suck the blood ...
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... body ; vitality ; animation , opposed to an inanimate state . On thy life no more . -My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy foes . Shakspeare's K. Lear . She shews a body rather than a life , A statue than a breather ...
... body ; vitality ; animation , opposed to an inanimate state . On thy life no more . -My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy foes . Shakspeare's K. Lear . She shews a body rather than a life , A statue than a breather ...
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... body strained by lifting at a weight too heavy , has often its force broken . LIFT . n . s . [ from the verb . ] 1. The manner of lifting . Locke . In the lift of the feet , when a man goeth up the hill , the weight of the body beareth ...
... body strained by lifting at a weight too heavy , has often its force broken . LIFT . n . s . [ from the verb . ] 1. The manner of lifting . Locke . In the lift of the feet , when a man goeth up the hill , the weight of the body beareth ...
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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