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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... means could be procur'd , To lay to draw him in by any train . Daniel . 3. To LAY about . To strike on all sides ; to act with great diligence and vigour . At once he wards and strikes , he takes and pays , Now forc'd to yield , now ...
... means could be procur'd , To lay to draw him in by any train . Daniel . 3. To LAY about . To strike on all sides ; to act with great diligence and vigour . At once he wards and strikes , he takes and pays , Now forc'd to yield , now ...
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... means they were hurried out of the ocean . Wo.dw. LEGITIMATE . adj . [ from legitimus , Lat . legitime , French . ] Born in mar- riage ; lawfully begotten . Legitimate Edgar , I must have your land ; Our father's love is to the bastard ...
... means they were hurried out of the ocean . Wo.dw. LEGITIMATE . adj . [ from legitimus , Lat . legitime , French . ] Born in mar- riage ; lawfully begotten . Legitimate Edgar , I must have your land ; Our father's love is to the bastard ...
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... means lile , as long as whatsoever they knew besides God , they apprehended it not in itself without dependency upon God . Hooker . The young soldiers did with such cheerfulness like of this resolution , that they thought two days a ...
... means lile , as long as whatsoever they knew besides God , they apprehended it not in itself without dependency upon God . Hooker . The young soldiers did with such cheerfulness like of this resolution , that they thought two days a ...
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... means and causes of our happiness . 3. To make a LIP . To hang the lip. Tillotson . 6. To unite or concatenate in a ... mean ; parts . A lawless linseywoolsie brother , Half of one order , half another . Hudibras . Peel'd , patch'd ...
... means and causes of our happiness . 3. To make a LIP . To hang the lip. Tillotson . 6. To unite or concatenate in a ... mean ; parts . A lawless linseywoolsie brother , Half of one order , half another . Hudibras . Peel'd , patch'd ...
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... means of that metal . The litharge sold in the shops is produced in the copper works , where lead has been used to purify that metal , or to separate silver from it . Hill . I have seen some parcels of glass adhering to the test or ...
... means of that metal . The litharge sold in the shops is produced in the copper works , where lead has been used to purify that metal , or to separate silver from it . Hill . I have seen some parcels of glass adhering to the test or ...
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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