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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... leave . Shaks . Hamlet . LABRA . 2. 5. [ Spanish . ) A lip . Not Hanmer . used . Word of denial in thy labras here ; Word of denial , froth and scum thou liest . Shak . LABYRINTH . n.s. [ labyrinthus , Lat . ] A maze ; a place formed ...
... leave . Shaks . Hamlet . LABRA . 2. 5. [ Spanish . ) A lip . Not Hanmer . used . Word of denial in thy labras here ; Word of denial , froth and scum thou liest . Shak . LABYRINTH . n.s. [ labyrinthus , Lat . ] A maze ; a place formed ...
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... leave out the lacteous circle , yet are there more by four than Philo mentions . Brown . 2. Lacteal ; conveying chyle . The lungs are suitable for respiration , and the lacteous vessels for the reception of the chyle . Bentley . LACTE ...
... leave out the lacteous circle , yet are there more by four than Philo mentions . Brown . 2. Lacteal ; conveying chyle . The lungs are suitable for respiration , and the lacteous vessels for the reception of the chyle . Bentley . LACTE ...
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... leave in the lasb , With losses on every side . Tasser's Husbandry . 4. A stroke of satire ; a sarcasm . The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well . L'Estrange To LASH . v . a . [ from the ...
... leave in the lasb , With losses on every side . Tasser's Husbandry . 4. A stroke of satire ; a sarcasm . The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well . L'Estrange To LASH . v . a . [ from the ...
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... leave his people without a spiritual guide . Swift . LAWYER . n , s . [ from law . ) Professor of law ; advocate ; pleader . It is like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer , you gave me nothing for it . Shaksp . King Lear . Is the law evil ...
... leave his people without a spiritual guide . Swift . LAWYER . n , s . [ from law . ) Professor of law ; advocate ; pleader . It is like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer , you gave me nothing for it . Shaksp . King Lear . Is the law evil ...
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... leaves on the trees , and the billows in the sea . Dryden's Dufresnoy . 2. A part of a book , containing two pages . Happy ye leaves , when as those lily hands Shall handle you . D Spenser . Peruse my leaves through ev'ry part , And ...
... leaves on the trees , and the billows in the sea . Dryden's Dufresnoy . 2. A part of a book , containing two pages . Happy ye leaves , when as those lily hands Shall handle you . D Spenser . Peruse my leaves through ev'ry part , And ...
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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