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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... honour of the dead . LACINIATED . adj . [ from lacinia , Lat . ] Adorned with fringes and borders . To LACK . a . [ laecken , to lessen , Dut . ] To want ; to need ; to be without . Every good and holy desire , though it lack the form ...
... honour of the dead . LACINIATED . adj . [ from lacinia , Lat . ] Adorned with fringes and borders . To LACK . a . [ laecken , to lessen , Dut . ] To want ; to need ; to be without . Every good and holy desire , though it lack the form ...
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... honour could invite them to ; A goodly theatre , where rocks are round With reverend age , and lovely lasses crown'd . Waller . A girl was worth forty of our widows ; and an honest , downright , plain - dealing lass it was . L'Estrange ...
... honour could invite them to ; A goodly theatre , where rocks are round With reverend age , and lovely lasses crown'd . Waller . A girl was worth forty of our widows ; and an honest , downright , plain - dealing lass it was . L'Estrange ...
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... honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine , Reply'd the swain , for spotless ... honours In these so flatt'ring streams . Shaksp . Macbeth . But as I rose out of the laving stream , Heav'n open'd ...
... honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine , Reply'd the swain , for spotless ... honours In these so flatt'ring streams . Shaksp . Macbeth . But as I rose out of the laving stream , Heav'n open'd ...
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... . Which may go out before them , and which may go in before them , and which may lead them out , and which may bring them in . Numbers . What I did , I did in honour , Led 7 LEA LEA Or lazy lakes unconscious of a flood, ...
... . Which may go out before them , and which may go in before them , and which may lead them out , and which may bring them in . Numbers . What I did , I did in honour , Led 7 LEA LEA Or lazy lakes unconscious of a flood, ...
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... honour , Led by th ' impartial conduct of my soul . Shakspeare . He was driven by the necessities of the times , more than led by his own disposition , to any ri gour of actions . King Charles . What I say will have little influence on ...
... honour , Led by th ' impartial conduct of my soul . Shakspeare . He was driven by the necessities of the times , more than led by his own disposition , to any ri gour of actions . King Charles . What I say will have little influence on ...
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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