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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... common body , Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream , Goes to , and back , lacqueying the varying tide , To rot itself with motion . Shakspeare , So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity , That when a soul is found sincerely so , A ...
... common body , Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream , Goes to , and back , lacqueying the varying tide , To rot itself with motion . Shakspeare , So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity , That when a soul is found sincerely so , A ...
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... common lag of peo- ple , what is amiss in them , make suitable for de- Shakspeare . 2. He that comes last , or hangs behind . The last , the lag of all the race . Dryden's Virgil . What makes my ram the lag of all the flock ? To LAG . v ...
... common lag of peo- ple , what is amiss in them , make suitable for de- Shakspeare . 2. He that comes last , or hangs behind . The last , the lag of all the race . Dryden's Virgil . What makes my ram the lag of all the flock ? To LAG . v ...
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... common use , but since laid aside and forgotten , which meant the taking away a man's life . For land or lant is an old word for urine , and to stop the common pas- sages and functions of nature is to kill . Hanmer . You are abused ...
... common use , but since laid aside and forgotten , which meant the taking away a man's life . For land or lant is an old word for urine , and to stop the common pas- sages and functions of nature is to kill . Hanmer . You are abused ...
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... common discharges . Quincy . LA NGUOROUS ! adj . [ languoreux , French . ] Tedious ; melancholy . Not in use . Dear lady , how shall I declare thy case , Whom late I left in langučrous constraint ? Spenser . To LA NIATE . v . a ...
... common discharges . Quincy . LA NGUOROUS ! adj . [ languoreux , French . ] Tedious ; melancholy . Not in use . Dear lady , how shall I declare thy case , Whom late I left in langučrous constraint ? Spenser . To LA NIATE . v . a ...
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... common lead ore , that the work- men call it steel ore . Boyle . Lead is employed for the refining of gold and silver by the cupel ; hereof is made common coruss with vinegar ; of ceruss , red lead ; of plum- bum ustum , the best yellow ...
... common lead ore , that the work- men call it steel ore . Boyle . Lead is employed for the refining of gold and silver by the cupel ; hereof is made common coruss with vinegar ; of ceruss , red lead ; of plum- bum ustum , the best yellow ...
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| Title | 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 3 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
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