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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... less I now lament for one whole world Of wicked sons destroyed , than I rejoice For one man found so perfect and so just , That God vouchsafes to raise another world From him . Milton . To LAMENT . v . a . To bewail ; to mourn ; to ...
... less I now lament for one whole world Of wicked sons destroyed , than I rejoice For one man found so perfect and so just , That God vouchsafes to raise another world From him . Milton . To LAMENT . v . a . To bewail ; to mourn ; to ...
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... less content ; His larder and his kitchen too observes , And now , lest he should want hereafter , starves . LA'RDERER . n . s . [ from larder . ] One King . who has the charge of the larder . LARDON . n . s . [ Fr. ] A bit of bacon ...
... less content ; His larder and his kitchen too observes , And now , lest he should want hereafter , starves . LA'RDERER . n . s . [ from larder . ] One King . who has the charge of the larder . LARDON . n . s . [ Fr. ] A bit of bacon ...
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... less durable and lasting . Ray . 2. Of long continuance ; perpetual . White parents may have black children , as negroes sometimes have lasting white ones . Bovie on Colours . The grateful work is done , The seeds of discord sow'd , the ...
... less durable and lasting . Ray . 2. Of long continuance ; perpetual . White parents may have black children , as negroes sometimes have lasting white ones . Bovie on Colours . The grateful work is done , The seeds of discord sow'd , the ...
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... less and less as I remove ; so that if I would trust my sense , I should believe it as very a bedy upon the paper as in the candle , though infeebled by the laxity of the channel in which it flows . Dighy an Bodies . LAXNESS . n . s ...
... less and less as I remove ; so that if I would trust my sense , I should believe it as very a bedy upon the paper as in the candle , though infeebled by the laxity of the channel in which it flows . Dighy an Bodies . LAXNESS . n . s ...
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... less ; but surely the profit is not worth the change . ] Little beyond others ; smailest . I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies shewed to thy servant . Genesis . A man can no more have a positive idea of the greatest than he ...
... less ; but surely the profit is not worth the change . ] Little beyond others ; smailest . I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies shewed to thy servant . Genesis . A man can no more have a positive idea of the greatest than he ...
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