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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... Latin . ) Hidden ; concealed ; secret . If we look into its retired movements , and more secret latent springs , we ... low Latin . ) A Latin idiom ; a mode of speech peculiar to the Latin . Milton has made use of frequent ...
... Latin . ) Hidden ; concealed ; secret . If we look into its retired movements , and more secret latent springs , we ... low Latin . ) A Latin idiom ; a mode of speech peculiar to the Latin . Milton has made use of frequent ...
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... Latin . ] Deli- tescent ; concealed ; lying hid . Snakes and lizzards , latitant many months in the year ... low Latin . ] Not restrained ; not confined ; thinking or acting at large . Latitudinarian love will be expensive , and ...
... Latin . ] Deli- tescent ; concealed ; lying hid . Snakes and lizzards , latitant many months in the year ... low Latin . ] Not restrained ; not confined ; thinking or acting at large . Latitudinarian love will be expensive , and ...
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... Latin . ] Harvey . I. Praise ; honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine ... low - laid mouths each mounting billow laves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length , She seems a sea ...
... Latin . ] Harvey . I. Praise ; honour paid ; celebration . Doubtless , O guest , great laud and praise were mine ... low - laid mouths each mounting billow laves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length , She seems a sea ...
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... low , as close to the belly as the lute , and then the strings of guts mounted upon a bridge as in ordinary viols ... Latin , a fune- ral song ; but it is found likewise in the Teutonick dialect : ley , leođ , Sax . leey , Danish ...
... low , as close to the belly as the lute , and then the strings of guts mounted upon a bridge as in ordinary viols ... Latin , a fune- ral song ; but it is found likewise in the Teutonick dialect : ley , leođ , Sax . leey , Danish ...
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... low Latin . ] 1. The fruit of the lemon - tree . The juice of lemons is more cooling and astrin- gent than that of oranges . Arbuthnot . The dyers use it for dying of bright yellows and lemon colours . Mortimer . Bear me , Pomona ! To ...
... low Latin . ] 1. The fruit of the lemon - tree . The juice of lemons is more cooling and astrin- gent than that of oranges . Arbuthnot . The dyers use it for dying of bright yellows and lemon colours . Mortimer . Bear me , Pomona ! To ...
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Addison Ćneid 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