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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... hand , Th ' artificer and art you might command , Το labour arms for Troy . Dryden's Eneid . An eager desire to know something concerning him , has occasioned mankind to labour the point , under these disadvantages , and turn on all hands ...
... hand , Th ' artificer and art you might command , Το labour arms for Troy . Dryden's Eneid . An eager desire to know something concerning him , has occasioned mankind to labour the point , under these disadvantages , and turn on all hands ...
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... hands to each other's lappets , and ruffles , and mantuas ? Swift . LAPSE . n . s . [ lapsus , Lat . ] 1. Flow ; fall ... hand side of a ship , when you stand with your face to the head : opposed to the starboard . Harris , Or when ...
... hands to each other's lappets , and ruffles , and mantuas ? Swift . LAPSE . n . s . [ lapsus , Lat . ] 1. Flow ; fall ... hand side of a ship , when you stand with your face to the head : opposed to the starboard . Harris , Or when ...
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... hand of the chair , with a privy door , and a carved window of glass leaded with gold and blue , where the mother sitteth . Bacon . To LEAD . v . a . preter . I led ; part . led . [ lędan , Saxon ; leiden , Dutch . ] 1. To guide by the hand ...
... hand of the chair , with a privy door , and a carved window of glass leaded with gold and blue , where the mother sitteth . Bacon . To LEAD . v . a . preter . I led ; part . led . [ lędan , Saxon ; leiden , Dutch . ] 1. To guide by the hand ...
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... hand , before an altar . Peacham on Drawing . The columns may be allowed somewhat above their ordinary length ... hands than without ; for that the weight , if it be pro- portionable , strengtheneth the sinews by con- tracting them . In ...
... hand , before an altar . Peacham on Drawing . The columns may be allowed somewhat above their ordinary length ... hands than without ; for that the weight , if it be pro- portionable , strengtheneth the sinews by con- tracting them . In ...
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... hand ; she has a leathern hand , A free - stone colour'd hand : I verily did think That her old gloves were on . Shakspeare . The wretched animal heav'd forth such greans , That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to ...
... hand ; she has a leathern hand , A free - stone colour'd hand : I verily did think That her old gloves were on . Shakspeare . The wretched animal heav'd forth such greans , That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to ...
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