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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... keep that place three days , for lack of victuals . The trenchant blade , toledo trusty , For want of fighting was grown rusty , And eat into itself , for lack Of somebody to hew and hack . Knolles Hudibras . LA CKBRAIN . n . s . [ lack ...
... keep that place three days , for lack of victuals . The trenchant blade , toledo trusty , For want of fighting was grown rusty , And eat into itself , for lack Of somebody to hew and hack . Knolles Hudibras . LA CKBRAIN . n . s . [ lack ...
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... keep figure . Bacon . Swift , who could neither fly nor hide , Came sneaking to the chariot side ; And offer'd many a lame excuse , He never meant the least abuse . Savift . To LAME . V. a . [ from the adjective . ] To make lame ; to ...
... keep figure . Bacon . Swift , who could neither fly nor hide , Came sneaking to the chariot side ; And offer'd many a lame excuse , He never meant the least abuse . Savift . To LAME . V. a . [ from the adjective . ] To make lame ; to ...
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... keep Bacon . Dorset . The more he still abouads , the less content ; His larder and his kitchen too observes , And now , lest he should want hereafter , starves . LA'RDERER . n . s . [ from larder . ] One King . who has the charge of ...
... keep Bacon . Dorset . The more he still abouads , the less content ; His larder and his kitchen too observes , And now , lest he should want hereafter , starves . LA'RDERER . n . s . [ from larder . ] One King . who has the charge of ...
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... keep off the venom . Harvey . LAUD . n . s . [ laus , Latin . ] 1. Praise ; honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine , Reply'd the swain , for spotless faith divine : If , after social rites ...
... keep off the venom . Harvey . LAUD . n . s . [ laus , Latin . ] 1. Praise ; honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine , Reply'd the swain , for spotless faith divine : If , after social rites ...
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... keep . Queen Esther laid aside her glorious apparel , and put on the garments of anguish . Esther . 34. TO LAY before . To expose to view ; to show ; to display . mons . I cannot better satisfy your piety , than by lay- ing before you a ...
... keep . Queen Esther laid aside her glorious apparel , and put on the garments of anguish . Esther . 34. TO LAY before . To expose to view ; to show ; to display . mons . I cannot better satisfy your piety , than by lay- ing before you a ...
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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 | 8 Sep 2006 |
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