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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... mouth of a river , and is derived from the Saxon lade , which signifies a purging or discharging ; there being a discharge of the waters into the sea , or into some greater river . Gibson's Camden . To LADE . v . a . preter . laded ...
... mouth of a river , and is derived from the Saxon lade , which signifies a purging or discharging ; there being a discharge of the waters into the sea , or into some greater river . Gibson's Camden . To LADE . v . a . preter . laded ...
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... mouth , which rises above the teeth . Farrier's Dict . His horse possest with the glanders , troubled with the lampass , infected with the fashions . Shak . LAMPBLACK . N. s . [ lamp and black . ] It is made by holding a torch under the ...
... mouth , which rises above the teeth . Farrier's Dict . His horse possest with the glanders , troubled with the lampass , infected with the fashions . Shak . LAMPBLACK . N. s . [ lamp and black . ] It is made by holding a torch under the ...
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... mouth might transmit the light . Being very lucky in a pair of long lantborn jaws , he wrung his face into a hideous grimace . Spectator . LANUGINOUS . adj . [ lanuginosus , Latin . ] Downy ; covered with soft hair . LAP.n.s. [ læppe ...
... mouth might transmit the light . Being very lucky in a pair of long lantborn jaws , he wrung his face into a hideous grimace . Spectator . LANUGINOUS . adj . [ lanuginosus , Latin . ] Downy ; covered with soft hair . LAP.n.s. [ læppe ...
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... mouth and nose the briny torrent ran , And lost in lassitude lay all the man . Pope's Odys . 2. [ In physick . ] Lassitude generally expresses that weariness which proceeds from a distempered state , and not from exercise , which wants ...
... mouth and nose the briny torrent ran , And lost in lassitude lay all the man . Pope's Odys . 2. [ In physick . ] Lassitude generally expresses that weariness which proceeds from a distempered state , and not from exercise , which wants ...
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... mouth of the den . Dan . 3. To beat down corn or grass . Another ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest . Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids the flowery meadows lay . May . 4. To keep ...
... mouth of the den . Dan . 3. To beat down corn or grass . Another ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest . Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids the flowery meadows lay . May . 4. To keep ...
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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