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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... hath its excretory vessel , or lactiferous duct . Ray on the Creation . LAD . n . s . [ leode , Saxon , which com- monly signifies people , but sometimes , says Mr. Lye , a boy . ] 1. A boy ; a stripling , in familiar lan- guage . 1 ...
... hath its excretory vessel , or lactiferous duct . Ray on the Creation . LAD . n . s . [ leode , Saxon , which com- monly signifies people , but sometimes , says Mr. Lye , a boy . ] 1. A boy ; a stripling , in familiar lan- guage . 1 ...
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... Hath in the skirts of Norway , here and there , Shark'd up a list of landless resolutes . Sbakspeare's Hamlet . A landless knight hath made a landed squire . Shakspeare . LANDLOCKED . adj . [ land and lock . ] Shut in , or enclosed with ...
... Hath in the skirts of Norway , here and there , Shark'd up a list of landless resolutes . Sbakspeare's Hamlet . A landless knight hath made a landed squire . Shakspeare . LANDLOCKED . adj . [ land and lock . ] Shut in , or enclosed with ...
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... hath 29 days , which in com- mon years hath but 28. To find the leap - year you have this rule : Divide by 4 ; what's left shall be For leap - year 0 : for past 1 , 2 , 3 . Harris . The reason of the name of leap - year is , that a day ...
... hath 29 days , which in com- mon years hath but 28. To find the leap - year you have this rule : Divide by 4 ; what's left shall be For leap - year 0 : for past 1 , 2 , 3 . Harris . The reason of the name of leap - year is , that a day ...
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... hath any perfection . Bacon's Essays . Several clergymen , otherwise little fond of obscure terms , are , in their sermons , very liberal of all those which they find in ecclesiasti- cal writers , as if it were our duty to understand ...
... hath any perfection . Bacon's Essays . Several clergymen , otherwise little fond of obscure terms , are , in their sermons , very liberal of all those which they find in ecclesiasti- cal writers , as if it were our duty to understand ...
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... hath spent all her life in the practice of both . Swift . The utmost force of boiling water is not able to destroy the structure of the tenderest plant : the lineaments of a white lily will remain after the strongest decoction ...
... hath spent all her life in the practice of both . Swift . The utmost force of boiling water is not able to destroy the structure of the tenderest plant : the lineaments of a white lily will remain after the strongest decoction ...
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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