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 |
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For want of fighting was grown rusty , TO LACERATE . W. 13. [ lacero , Latin . ) And eat into itself , for lacke To tear ; to rend ; to separate by vic- Of somebody to hew and hack . Hudibras . lence . LACKBR . 11N . n . s .
For want of fighting was grown rusty , TO LACERATE . W. 13. [ lacero , Latin . ) And eat into itself , for lacke To tear ; to rend ; to separate by vic- Of somebody to hew and hack . Hudibras . lence . LACKBR . 11N . n . s .
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A Now streets grow throng'd , and busy as by day , dairy - house . Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire ; Some cut che pipes , and some the engines play , LACTA'TION , n . s . ( lacto , Lat . ] The act And some more bold mount ...
A Now streets grow throng'd , and busy as by day , dairy - house . Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire ; Some cut che pipes , and some the engines play , LACTA'TION , n . s . ( lacto , Lat . ] The act And some more bold mount ...
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The upper wings are opacous ; at their hinder Growing or turning to stone . ends , where they lep over , transparent , like the LAPIDIFICA'Tion . 1. s . [ lapidification , wing of a fly . Grow . French . ] The act of forming stones .
The upper wings are opacous ; at their hinder Growing or turning to stone . ends , where they lep over , transparent , like the LAPIDIFICA'Tion . 1. s . [ lapidification , wing of a fly . Grow . French . ] The act of forming stones .
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The winds grow high , i Lewd ; lustful . Impending tempests charge the sky ; The lightning flies , the thunder roars , In what habit will you go along ? And big waves lash the frighted shores . Prior .. -Not like a woman ; for I would ...
The winds grow high , i Lewd ; lustful . Impending tempests charge the sky ; The lightning flies , the thunder roars , In what habit will you go along ? And big waves lash the frighted shores . Prior .. -Not like a woman ; for I would ...
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To grow longer ; thing is to get some measure of this common due to increase in length . ration , whereby to judge of its diferent lengths . Locke . One may as well make a yard , whose parts lengtben and shrink , as a measure of trade ...
To grow longer ; thing is to get some measure of this common due to increase in length . ration , whereby to judge of its diferent lengths . Locke . One may as well make a yard , whose parts lengtben and shrink , as a measure of trade ...
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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 | 7 Sep 2006 |
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