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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... labour ; if she be otherwise , it is labour well bestowed . struction . The rest of your foes , O gods. LABO'RIOUS . adj . [ laborieux , French ; laboriosus , Lat . ] 1. Diligent in work ; assiduous . That which makes the clergy glorious ...
... labour ; if she be otherwise , it is labour well bestowed . struction . The rest of your foes , O gods. LABO'RIOUS . adj . [ laborieux , French ; laboriosus , Lat . ] 1. Diligent in work ; assiduous . That which makes the clergy glorious ...
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... labour . ] Made with great labour and diligence . Not in use . Forget Your laboursome and dainty trims , wherein You made great Jove angry . Shaksp . Cymbeline . He hath , my lord , by laboursome petition , Wrung from me my slow leave ...
... labour . ] Made with great labour and diligence . Not in use . Forget Your laboursome and dainty trims , wherein You made great Jove angry . Shaksp . Cymbeline . He hath , my lord , by laboursome petition , Wrung from me my slow leave ...
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... labour under the same de- fect . 2. To fail in any thing ; to slip ; to com- Swift . mit a fault . I have ever verified my friends , Of whom he's chief , with all the size that verity Would without lapsing suffer . To lapse in fulness ...
... labour under the same de- fect . 2. To fail in any thing ; to slip ; to com- Swift . mit a fault . I have ever verified my friends , Of whom he's chief , with all the size that verity Would without lapsing suffer . To lapse in fulness ...
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... labour . Lassitude is remedied by bathing , or anointing with oil and warm water ; for all lassitude is a kind of centusion and compression of the parts ; and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emollition . Bacon . Assiduity in ...
... labour . Lassitude is remedied by bathing , or anointing with oil and warm water ; for all lassitude is a kind of centusion and compression of the parts ; and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emollition . Bacon . Assiduity in ...
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... labour laves Th ' intruding seas , and waves eject on waves . Dryden . To LAVE . V. n . To wash himself ; to bathe . ! In her chaste current oft the goddess laves , And with celestial tears augments the waves . Pope . To LAVE ER . v . n ...
... labour laves Th ' intruding seas , and waves eject on waves . Dryden . To LAVE . V. n . To wash himself ; to bathe . ! In her chaste current oft the goddess laves , And with celestial tears augments the waves . Pope . To LAVE ER . v . n ...
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