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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... colour . To LACKER . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To sinear over with lacker . What shook the stage , and made the people stare ? Cato's long wig , flower'd gown , and lacker'dchair . Pope . L'A'CKEY.n.s . [ laquais , Fr. ) An attend ...
... colour . To LACKER . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To sinear over with lacker . What shook the stage , and made the people stare ? Cato's long wig , flower'd gown , and lacker'dchair . Pope . L'A'CKEY.n.s . [ laquais , Fr. ) An attend ...
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... colour . This lactescence does commonly ensue , when wine , being impregnated with gums , or other vegetable concretions , that abound with sulphu- reous corpuscles , fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution . Boyle on Colours ...
... colour . This lactescence does commonly ensue , when wine , being impregnated with gums , or other vegetable concretions , that abound with sulphu- reous corpuscles , fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution . Boyle on Colours ...
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... colour , between ultramarine and vermilion , yet it is rather sweet than harsh . It is made of cochineal . Dryden . LAMB . n . s . [ lamb , Gothick and Saxon . ] 1. The young of a sheep . I'm young ; but something You may deserve of him ...
... colour , between ultramarine and vermilion , yet it is rather sweet than harsh . It is made of cochineal . Dryden . LAMB . n . s . [ lamb , Gothick and Saxon . ] 1. The young of a sheep . I'm young ; but something You may deserve of him ...
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... colour , variegated with clouds of white , and veins of a shining gold colour : to it the painters are indebted for their beautiful ultra - marine co- lour , which is only a calcination of lapis lazuli . LAPPER . N. s . [ from lap . ] 1 ...
... colour , variegated with clouds of white , and veins of a shining gold colour : to it the painters are indebted for their beautiful ultra - marine co- lour , which is only a calcination of lapis lazuli . LAPPER . N. s . [ from lap . ] 1 ...
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... colour . The bashful blood her snowy cheeks did spread , That her became as polish'd ivory , Which cupring craftsman's hand hath overlaid , With fair vermilion , or pure lastery . Spenser . LA'STAGE.n.s . [ lestage , Fr. lastagie , Dut ...
... colour . The bashful blood her snowy cheeks did spread , That her became as polish'd ivory , Which cupring craftsman's hand hath overlaid , With fair vermilion , or pure lastery . Spenser . LA'STAGE.n.s . [ lestage , Fr. lastagie , Dut ...
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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