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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... kind by lapping . Ray on Creation . To LAP . v . a . To lick up . For all the rest They'll take suggestion , as a cat laps milk . Upon a bull Shakspeare . Two horrid lyons rampt , and seiz'd , and tugg'd off , bellowing still , Both men ...
... kind by lapping . Ray on Creation . To LAP . v . a . To lick up . For all the rest They'll take suggestion , as a cat laps milk . Upon a bull Shakspeare . Two horrid lyons rampt , and seiz'd , and tugg'd off , bellowing still , Both men ...
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... kind of lap- work , the quills of porcupines , not split , but of the young onesintire ; mixed with white and black in even and indented waves . Grew's Musæum . LA'RBOARD . # . s . The left - hand side of a ship , when you stand with ...
... kind of lap- work , the quills of porcupines , not split , but of the young onesintire ; mixed with white and black in even and indented waves . Grew's Musæum . LA'RBOARD . # . s . The left - hand side of a ship , when you stand with ...
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... kind of centusion and compression of the parts ; and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emollition . Bacon . Assiduity in cogitation is more than our em- bodied souls can bear without Jassitude or distem- per . ' Glanville . She ...
... kind of centusion and compression of the parts ; and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emollition . Bacon . Assiduity in cogitation is more than our em- bodied souls can bear without Jassitude or distem- per . ' Glanville . She ...
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... kind of small water serpent , which fastens on animals , and sucks the blood : it is used to draw blood where the lancet is less safe , whence perhaps the name . I drew blood by leeches behind his ear . Wisem . Sucking like leeches ...
... kind of small water serpent , which fastens on animals , and sucks the blood : it is used to draw blood where the lancet is less safe , whence perhaps the name . I drew blood by leeches behind his ear . Wisem . Sucking like leeches ...
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... kind of hawk . I should enlarge my discourse to the observa- tion of the haggard , and the two sorts of lentners . Walton's Angler . LENTOR . n . s . [ lentor , Lat . lenteur , tr . ] 1. Tenacity ; viscosity . Some bodies have a kind of ...
... kind of hawk . I should enlarge my discourse to the observa- tion of the haggard , and the two sorts of lentners . Walton's Angler . LENTOR . n . s . [ lentor , Lat . lenteur , tr . ] 1. Tenacity ; viscosity . Some bodies have a kind of ...
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