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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... ground . 13. To prohibit a spirit to walk . Dryden . The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a petticoat , but the rattling of a bladder with beans in it . 14. To set on the table . I laid meat unto them . L'Estrange , Hosea . 15 ...
... ground . 13. To prohibit a spirit to walk . Dryden . The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a petticoat , but the rattling of a bladder with beans in it . 14. To set on the table . I laid meat unto them . L'Estrange , Hosea . 15 ...
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... ground . Dryden . 3. Comparative extent ; a certain portion of space or time : in this sense it has a plural . Large lengths of seas and shores Between my father and my mother lay . Shaksp . To get from th ' enemy , and Ralph , free ...
... ground . Dryden . 3. Comparative extent ; a certain portion of space or time : in this sense it has a plural . Large lengths of seas and shores Between my father and my mother lay . Shaksp . To get from th ' enemy , and Ralph , free ...
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... ground in honour of some deity . In digging new earth pour in some wine , toat the vapour of the earth and wine may comfort the spirits , provided it be not taken for a heathen sacrifice , or libation to the earth . 2. The wine so ...
... ground in honour of some deity . In digging new earth pour in some wine , toat the vapour of the earth and wine may comfort the spirits , provided it be not taken for a heathen sacrifice , or libation to the earth . 2. The wine so ...
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... ground , And the warm life came issuing through the wound . Pope . 5. Conduct ; manner of living with re- spect to virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley ...
... ground , And the warm life came issuing through the wound . Pope . 5. Conduct ; manner of living with re- spect to virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley ...
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... ground ; to heave ; to elevate ; to hold on high . Filial ingratitude ; is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't ? Shakspeare . Your guests are coming ; Lift up your countenance , as ' twere the day Of ...
... ground ; to heave ; to elevate ; to hold on high . Filial ingratitude ; is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to't ? Shakspeare . Your guests are coming ; Lift up your countenance , as ' twere the day Of ...
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Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word