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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... land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness ; thou shalt not lack any thing in it . Deuteronomy . One day we hope thou shalt bring back , Dear Bolingbroke , the justice that we lack . Dan . Intreat they may ; authority they ...
... land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness ; thou shalt not lack any thing in it . Deuteronomy . One day we hope thou shalt bring back , Dear Bolingbroke , the justice that we lack . Dan . Intreat they may ; authority they ...
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... [ land , Gothick , Saxon , and so all the Teutonick dialects . ] 1. A country ; a region distinct from other countries ... land- bred people . Spenser's State of Ireland . Thy ambition , Thou scarlet sin , robb'd this bewailing land Of ...
... [ land , Gothick , Saxon , and so all the Teutonick dialects . ] 1. A country ; a region distinct from other countries ... land- bred people . Spenser's State of Ireland . Thy ambition , Thou scarlet sin , robb'd this bewailing land Of ...
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... LAND - FORCES . n . s . [ land and force . ] Warlike powers not naval ; soldiers that serve on land . We behold in France the greatest land - forces that have ever been known under any christian prince . Temple . LANDHOLDER . n . s ...
... LAND - FORCES . n . s . [ land and force . ] Warlike powers not naval ; soldiers that serve on land . We behold in France the greatest land - forces that have ever been known under any christian prince . Temple . LANDHOLDER . n . s ...
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... land , and trade there- in ; for it is large enough for them . Genesis . There he conquered a thousand miles wide and large . Abbot's Description of the World . 3. Liberal ; abundant ; plentiful . Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup ...
... land , and trade there- in ; for it is large enough for them . Genesis . There he conquered a thousand miles wide and large . Abbot's Description of the World . 3. Liberal ; abundant ; plentiful . Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup ...
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... land seems hard to the land- holder , because it is so much money going out of his pocket . Locke . 25. To impute ; to charge . Preoccupied with what You rather must do , than what you should do , Made you against the grain to voice him ...
... land seems hard to the land- holder , because it is so much money going out of his pocket . Locke . 25. To impute ; to charge . Preoccupied with what You rather must do , than what you should do , Made you against the grain to voice him ...
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