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 , We ...
... 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 , We ...
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... Hath in the skirts of Norway , here and there , Shark'd up a list of landless resolutes . Shakspeare'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 . Shakspeare'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 been laid before the com- Swift . Their office it is to lay the business of the na- tion before him . Addison . 35. TO LAY by . To reserve for some future time . Let every one lay by him in store , as God hath prospered him . 1 ...
... hath been laid before the com- Swift . Their office it is to lay the business of the na- tion before him . Addison . 35. TO LAY by . To reserve for some future time . Let every one lay by him in store , as God hath prospered him . 1 ...
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... hath bereft you thus ? -Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . Milt . O'er barren mountains , o'er the flow'ry plain , The leafy forest , and the liquid main , Extends thy uncentroul'd and boundless reign . Dryden . Her leafy arms ...
... hath bereft you thus ? -Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . Milt . O'er barren mountains , o'er the flow'ry plain , The leafy forest , and the liquid main , Extends thy uncentroul'd and boundless reign . Dryden . Her leafy arms ...
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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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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