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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... noun . ] To smear over with lacker . What shook the stage , and made the people " stare ? Cato's long wig , flower'd gown , and lacker'd chair . Pepe . LACKEY . n . s . [ laquais , Fr. ] An attend- ing servant ; a footboy . They would ...
... noun . ] To smear over with lacker . What shook the stage , and made the people " stare ? Cato's long wig , flower'd gown , and lacker'd chair . Pepe . LACKEY . n . s . [ laquais , Fr. ] An attend- ing servant ; a footboy . They would ...
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... noun . ] To abuse with personal satire . LAMPOONER . 7. s . [ from lampoon . ] A scribbler of personal satire . We are naturally displeased with an unknown critick , as the ladies are with a lampooner , be cause we are bitten in the ...
... noun . ] To abuse with personal satire . LAMPOONER . 7. s . [ from lampoon . ] A scribbler of personal satire . We are naturally displeased with an unknown critick , as the ladies are with a lampooner , be cause we are bitten in the ...
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... noun . ] 1. To glide slowly ; to fall by degrees . This disposition to shorten our words , by re- trenching the vowels , is nothing else but a ten- dency to lapse into the barbarity of those north- ern nations from whom we are descended ...
... noun . ] 1. To glide slowly ; to fall by degrees . This disposition to shorten our words , by re- trenching the vowels , is nothing else but a ten- dency to lapse into the barbarity of those north- ern nations from whom we are descended ...
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... noun . ] To bring leaves ; to bear leaves . Most trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leef about the solstice . Brown . LEAFLESS . adj . [ from leaf . ] Naked of leaves . Bare honesty , without some ...
... noun . ] To bring leaves ; to bear leaves . Most trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leef about the solstice . Brown . LEAFLESS . adj . [ from leaf . ] Naked of leaves . Bare honesty , without some ...
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... noun . ] To let by lease . Where the vicar leases his glebe , the tenant must pay the great tithes to the rector or impro- priator , and the small tithes to the vicar . Ayliffe's Parergon . T LEASE . V. n . [ lesen , Dutch . ] To glean ...
... noun . ] To let by lease . Where the vicar leases his glebe , the tenant must pay the great tithes to the rector or impro- priator , and the small tithes to the vicar . Ayliffe's Parergon . T LEASE . V. n . [ lesen , Dutch . ] To glean ...
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