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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... fathers do languish of such dis- 2. Esdras . What can we expect , but that her languishings should end in death ... father . Spectator . Let Leonora consider , that , at the very time in which she languishes for the loss of her ...
... fathers do languish of such dis- 2. Esdras . What can we expect , but that her languishings should end in death ... father . Spectator . Let Leonora consider , that , at the very time in which she languishes for the loss of her ...
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... father's way ; or so plentifully provided for , that they are left at large . Spratt . LAR Your zeal becomes importunate ; I've hitherto permitted it to rave And talk at large ; but learn to keep it in , Lest it should take more freedom ...
... father's way ; or so plentifully provided for , that they are left at large . Spratt . LAR Your zeal becomes importunate ; I've hitherto permitted it to rave And talk at large ; but learn to keep it in , Lest it should take more freedom ...
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... father's house : the door was only latched ; and , when he had the latch in his hand , he turned about his head to see his pursuer . 2. [ lecher , French . ] To smear . Locke . But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love ...
... father's house : the door was only latched ; and , when he had the latch in his hand , he turned about his head to see his pursuer . 2. [ lecher , French . ] To smear . Locke . But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love ...
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... father's purposes have been mistook ; And some about him have too lavishly ; Wrested his meaning and authority . Shaksp . Henry IV . Then laughs the childish year with flowrets crown'd , And lavishly perfumes the fields around . Dryd ...
... father's purposes have been mistook ; And some about him have too lavishly ; Wrested his meaning and authority . Shaksp . Henry IV . Then laughs the childish year with flowrets crown'd , And lavishly perfumes the fields around . Dryd ...
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... father and his mother lay bold him , and bring him out . Deuteronomy . Favourable seasons of aptitude and inclination , be heedfully laid bold of . Locke . 45. To LAY in . To store ; to treasure . Let the main part of the ground ...
... father and his mother lay bold him , and bring him out . Deuteronomy . Favourable seasons of aptitude and inclination , be heedfully laid bold of . Locke . 45. To LAY in . To store ; to treasure . Let the main part of the ground ...
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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