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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... ness of it with his performance , either of these • are sufficient to effect a present liking . Dryden . To LAMENT . v . n . [ iamentor , Lat . lamenter , Fr. ] To mourn ; to wail ; to grieve , to express sorrow . The night has been ...
... ness of it with his performance , either of these • are sufficient to effect a present liking . Dryden . To LAMENT . v . n . [ iamentor , Lat . lamenter , Fr. ] To mourn ; to wail ; to grieve , to express sorrow . The night has been ...
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... ; inattention . Academical disputation gives vigour and brisk- ness to the mind thus exercised , and relieves the languor of private study and meditation . Wasts . 3. Softness ; laxity . To isles of fragrance ,. cases . answer . LAN LAN.
... ; inattention . Academical disputation gives vigour and brisk- ness to the mind thus exercised , and relieves the languor of private study and meditation . Wasts . 3. Softness ; laxity . To isles of fragrance ,. cases . answer . LAN LAN.
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... ness is agreeable to the sight . ] Plump ; in a state of plumpness . I fear my lord the king , who hath appointed your meat and your drink ; for why should he see your faces worse liking , than the children which are of your sort ...
... ness is agreeable to the sight . ] Plump ; in a state of plumpness . I fear my lord the king , who hath appointed your meat and your drink ; for why should he see your faces worse liking , than the children which are of your sort ...
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... ness ; purity . LIMPINGLY . adv . [ from limp . ] In a lame halting manner . LIMY . adj . 1. Viscous ; [ from lime . ] glutinous . Striving more , the more in laces strong Himself he tied , and wrapt his winges twain In limy snares the ...
... ness ; purity . LIMPINGLY . adv . [ from limp . ] In a lame halting manner . LIMY . adj . 1. Viscous ; [ from lime . ] glutinous . Striving more , the more in laces strong Himself he tied , and wrapt his winges twain In limy snares the ...
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... ness or extreme comminution of spirits ; the two first may be joined with a nature liquefiable , the last not . Bacon . A letter for me ! It gives me an estate of seven years health ; in which time I will make a lip at the physician ...
... ness or extreme comminution of spirits ; the two first may be joined with a nature liquefiable , the last not . Bacon . A letter for me ! It gives me an estate of seven years health ; in which time I will make a lip at the physician ...
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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