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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... called to another , who in childbed la- boured of an ulcer in her left hip . Wiseman . To be in distress ; to be pressed . To this infernal lake the fury flies , Here hides her hated head , and frees the fab'ring Dryden . Trumpets and ...
... called to another , who in childbed la- boured of an ulcer in her left hip . Wiseman . To be in distress ; to be pressed . To this infernal lake the fury flies , Here hides her hated head , and frees the fab'ring Dryden . Trumpets and ...
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... called by Pope , laconicism . See LACONICK . As the language of the face is universal , so it is very comprehensive : no laconism can reach it . It is the short - hand of the mind , and crowds a great deal in a little room . Collier of ...
... called by Pope , laconicism . See LACONICK . As the language of the face is universal , so it is very comprehensive : no laconism can reach it . It is the short - hand of the mind , and crowds a great deal in a little room . Collier of ...
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... called a sea- cow or manatee , which is near twenty feet long , the head resembling that of a cow , and two short feet , with which it creeps on the shallows and rocks to get food ; but has no fins : the flesh is com- monly eaten ...
... called a sea- cow or manatee , which is near twenty feet long , the head resembling that of a cow , and two short feet , with which it creeps on the shallows and rocks to get food ; but has no fins : the flesh is com- monly eaten ...
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... called vestibulum was no part of the house , but the court and landing - place between it and the street . Arbuthnot on Coins . LA'NDLADY . n . s . [ land and lady . ] 1. A woman who has tenants holding from her . 2. The mistress of an ...
... called vestibulum was no part of the house , but the court and landing - place between it and the street . Arbuthnot on Coins . LA'NDLADY . n . s . [ land and lady . ] 1. A woman who has tenants holding from her . 2. The mistress of an ...
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... called a law - day . The word seemeth to have grown from the Saxon lede , which was a court of jurisdiction above the wapen - take or hundred , comprehend- ing three or four of them , otherwise called thirshing , and contained the third ...
... called a law - day . The word seemeth to have grown from the Saxon lede , which was a court of jurisdiction above the wapen - take or hundred , comprehend- ing three or four of them , otherwise called thirshing , and contained the third ...
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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