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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... mouths of the lacteals may permit ali- ment , acrimonious or not sufficiently attenuated , to enter in people of lax ... mouth of a river , and is derived from the Saxon lade , which signifies a purging or discharging ; there being a ...
... mouths of the lacteals may permit ali- ment , acrimonious or not sufficiently attenuated , to enter in people of lax ... mouth of a river , and is derived from the Saxon lade , which signifies a purging or discharging ; there being a ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 . LANU GINOUS . adj . [ lanuginosus , Latin . ] Downy ; covered with soft hair . Now , now my ...
... mouth might transmit the light . Being very lucky in a pair of long lantborn- jaws , he wrung his face into a hideous grimace . Spectator . LANU GINOUS . adj . [ lanuginosus , Latin . ] Downy ; covered with soft hair . Now , now my ...
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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 . 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 . To keep from ...
... mouth of the den . Dan . 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 . To keep from ...
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