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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... night they may be a guard to us , and labour on the day . Nebemiab . As a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon , so he had no temptation to la- bour for more than he could make use of . Locke . 3. To move with ...
... night they may be a guard to us , and labour on the day . Nebemiab . As a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon , so he had no temptation to la- bour for more than he could make use of . Locke . 3. To move with ...
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... night - gown in respect of yours ; cloth of gold and coats , and lac'd with silver . Shaksp . 3. To embellish with variegations . Look , love , what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East ; Night's candles are burnt ...
... night - gown in respect of yours ; cloth of gold and coats , and lac'd with silver . Shaksp . 3. To embellish with variegations . Look , love , what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East ; Night's candles are burnt ...
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... night ,. Why should'st thou , but for some feloniousend ; In thy dark lanthorn thus close up the stars , That mature hung in heav'n , and fill their lamps With everlasting oil , to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ...
... night ,. Why should'st thou , but for some feloniousend ; In thy dark lanthorn thus close up the stars , That mature hung in heav'n , and fill their lamps With everlasting oil , to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ...
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... night hath boarded a land - carrack ; If it prove lawful prize , he's made for ever . won one town . Shakspeare . With eleven thousand land soldiers , and twen- ty - six ships of war , we within two months have Bacon . • Necessity makes ...
... night hath boarded a land - carrack ; If it prove lawful prize , he's made for ever . won one town . Shakspeare . With eleven thousand land soldiers , and twen- ty - six ships of war , we within two months have Bacon . • Necessity makes ...
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... night .. LATE . adv . 1. After long delays ; after a long time . It is used often with too , when the pro- per time is past . O boy ! thy father gave thee life too soon , And hath bereft thee of thy life too late . Shaksp . A second ...
... night .. LATE . adv . 1. After long delays ; after a long time . It is used often with too , when the pro- per time is past . O boy ! thy father gave thee life too soon , And hath bereft thee of thy life too late . Shaksp . A second ...
Common terms and phrases
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