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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... king must preserve the revenues of his crown without diminution , and lay up treasures in store against a time of extremity . Bacon . The whole was tilled , and the harvest laid up în several granaries . Temple . I will lay up your ...
... king must preserve the revenues of his crown without diminution , and lay up treasures in store against a time of extremity . Bacon . The whole was tilled , and the harvest laid up în several granaries . Temple . I will lay up your ...
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... king Ferdinando had taken upon him the person of a fraternal ally to the king , he would not let to counsel the king . LET . n.s. [ from the verb . ] Hinderance ; obstacle ; obstruction ; impediment . The secret lets and difficulties in ...
... king Ferdinando had taken upon him the person of a fraternal ally to the king , he would not let to counsel the king . LET . n.s. [ from the verb . ] Hinderance ; obstacle ; obstruction ; impediment . The secret lets and difficulties in ...
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... king come in by conquest , he is no longer a limited monarch ; if he afterwards consent to limitations , he becomes immediately king de jure . Swift . 2. Confinement from a lax or undetermi- nate import . The cause of error is ignorance ...
... king come in by conquest , he is no longer a limited monarch ; if he afterwards consent to limitations , he becomes immediately king de jure . Swift . 2. Confinement from a lax or undetermi- nate import . The cause of error is ignorance ...
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... king advance , In measur'd ' d lists to toss the weighty lance ; And who his rival shall in arms subdue , His be the dame , and his the treasure too . 3. Bound ; limit . Pope . The ocean , overpeering of his list , Eats not the flats ...
... king advance , In measur'd ' d lists to toss the weighty lance ; And who his rival shall in arms subdue , His be the dame , and his the treasure too . 3. Bound ; limit . Pope . The ocean , overpeering of his list , Eats not the flats ...
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... King Stephen was a worthy peer , His breeches cost him but a crown , He thought them sixpence all too dear , And therefore call'd the taylor lorun . LO'WNESS . N. s . [ from low . ] Shaksp . 1. Contrariety to height ; small distance ...
... King Stephen was a worthy peer , His breeches cost him but a crown , He thought them sixpence all too dear , And therefore call'd the taylor lorun . LO'WNESS . N. s . [ from low . ] Shaksp . 1. Contrariety to height ; small distance ...
Common terms and phrases
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