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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... fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution . Boyle on Colours . LACTE SCENT . adj . [ lactescens , Lat . ] Pro- ducing milk , or a white juice . Amongst the pot - herbs are some lactescent plants , as lettuce and endive , which ...
... fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution . Boyle on Colours . LACTE SCENT . adj . [ lactescens , Lat . ] Pro- ducing milk , or a white juice . Amongst the pot - herbs are some lactescent plants , as lettuce and endive , which ...
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... fair , open newel , and a fair landing - place at the top . Bacon . The landing - place is the uppermost step of a pair of stairs , viz . the floor of the room you ascend upon . Moxon . There is a stair - case that strangers are gene ...
... fair , open newel , and a fair landing - place at the top . Bacon . The landing - place is the uppermost step of a pair of stairs , viz . the floor of the room you ascend upon . Moxon . There is a stair - case that strangers are gene ...
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... fair influence Foster'd , illumin'd , cherish'd , kept alive . Sbaksp . And since this business so far fair is done , Let us not leave till all our own be won . Shaksp . He began at the eldest , and left at the youngest . Genesis . 2 ...
... fair influence Foster'd , illumin'd , cherish'd , kept alive . Sbaksp . And since this business so far fair is done , Let us not leave till all our own be won . Shaksp . He began at the eldest , and left at the youngest . Genesis . 2 ...
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... fair looks , and liberality ! Sbaksp . Such moderation with thy bounty join , That thou may'st nothing give that is not thine ; That liberality is but cast away , Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay . Denbam . LIBERALLY . adv ...
... fair looks , and liberality ! Sbaksp . Such moderation with thy bounty join , That thou may'st nothing give that is not thine ; That liberality is but cast away , Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay . Denbam . LIBERALLY . adv ...
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... fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser . Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . Sbakspeare . As in the tides of people once up , there want not stirring winds to make them more rough ; so this people ...
... fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser . Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . Sbakspeare . As in the tides of people once up , there want not stirring winds to make them more rough ; so this people ...
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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