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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... motion with some degree of violence . Moderate labour of the body conduces to the preservation of health , and curing many initial diseases ; but the toil of the mind destroys health , and generates maladies . 5. Childbirth ; travail ...
... motion with some degree of violence . Moderate labour of the body conduces to the preservation of health , and curing many initial diseases ; but the toil of the mind destroys health , and generates maladies . 5. Childbirth ; travail ...
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... motion . Shakspeare , So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity , That when a soul is found sincerely so , A thousand liveried angels lackey her , Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt . Mils . To LA CKEY . v . n . To act as a footboy ...
... motion . Shakspeare , So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity , That when a soul is found sincerely so , A thousand liveried angels lackey her , Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt . Mils . To LA CKEY . v . n . To act as a footboy ...
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... motion of the blood languid , disposeth to an acid acrimony ; what accelerates the motion of the blood , disposeth to an alkaline acrimony . Arbuthnot . No space can be assigned so vast , but still a larger may be imagined ; no motion ...
... motion of the blood languid , disposeth to an acid acrimony ; what accelerates the motion of the blood , disposeth to an alkaline acrimony . Arbuthnot . No space can be assigned so vast , but still a larger may be imagined ; no motion ...
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... motion of the five cartilages of the larynx . Derbam . LASCIVIENT . adj . [ lasciviens , Latin . ] Frolicksome ; wantoning . LASCIVIOUS . adj . [ lascivus , Latin . ] 1 Lewd ; lustful . In what habit will you go along ? -Not like a ...
... motion of the five cartilages of the larynx . Derbam . LASCIVIENT . adj . [ lasciviens , Latin . ] Frolicksome ; wantoning . LASCIVIOUS . adj . [ lascivus , Latin . ] 1 Lewd ; lustful . In what habit will you go along ? -Not like a ...
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... motion . LEGERDEMΑΙΝ . [ contracted perhaps from legereté de main , Fr. ] Slight of hand ; juggle ; power of deceiving the eye by nimble motion ; trick ; decep- tion ; knack . He so light was at legerdemain , That what he touch'd came ...
... motion . LEGERDEMΑΙΝ . [ contracted perhaps from legereté de main , Fr. ] Slight of hand ; juggle ; power of deceiving the eye by nimble motion ; trick ; decep- tion ; knack . He so light was at legerdemain , That what he touch'd came ...
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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