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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... laid upon the men , that they may labour therein . Exodus . He is so touch'd with the memory of her bene- volence and protection , that his soul labours for an expression to represent it . Notes onthe Odyssey . Epaphras saluteth you ...
... laid upon the men , that they may labour therein . Exodus . He is so touch'd with the memory of her bene- volence and protection , that his soul labours for an expression to represent it . Notes onthe Odyssey . Epaphras saluteth you ...
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... laid . Shakspeare . LACKER . n . 5. A kind of varnish , which , spread upon a white substance , exhibits a gold colour . To LACKER . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To sinear over with lacker . What shook the stage , and made the people ...
... laid . Shakspeare . LACKER . n . 5. A kind of varnish , which , spread upon a white substance , exhibits a gold colour . To LACKER . v . a . [ from the noun . ] To sinear over with lacker . What shook the stage , and made the people ...
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... LAID . Preterit participle of lay . Camden . Money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children . 2 Maccabees . A scheme which was writ some years since , and laid by to be ready on a fit occasion . Swift . LAIN . Preterit ...
... LAID . Preterit participle of lay . Camden . Money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children . 2 Maccabees . A scheme which was writ some years since , and laid by to be ready on a fit occasion . Swift . LAIN . Preterit ...
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... monly eaten . Bailey . LAMINA . n . s . ( Lat . ) Thin plate ; one coat laid over another . LAMINATED . adj . [ from lamina . ] Plated ; used of such bodies whose contexture discovers such a disposition as that of plates lying over LAM LAM.
... monly eaten . Bailey . LAMINA . n . s . ( Lat . ) Thin plate ; one coat laid over another . LAMINATED . adj . [ from lamina . ] Plated ; used of such bodies whose contexture discovers such a disposition as that of plates lying over LAM LAM.
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... laid aside and forgotten , which meant the taking away a man's life . For land or lant is an old word for urine , and to stop the common pas- sages and functions of nature is to kill . Hanmer . You are abused , and by some putter on ...
... laid aside and forgotten , which meant the taking away a man's life . For land or lant is an old word for urine , and to stop the common pas- sages and functions of nature is to kill . Hanmer . You are abused , and by some putter on ...
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