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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... o'er their hands to pour . Pope's Odyssey . To LAUGH . v . n . [ hlanan , Sax . lachen , German and Dutch ; lach , Scottish . ] 1. To make that noise which sudden merriment excites . You saw my master wink and laugh upon you ...
... o'er their hands to pour . Pope's Odyssey . To LAUGH . v . n . [ hlanan , Sax . lachen , German and Dutch ; lach , Scottish . ] 1. To make that noise which sudden merriment excites . You saw my master wink and laugh upon you ...
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... o'er with trifles . 3. One side of a double door . Swift . The two leaves of the one door were folding . 1 Kings . 4. Any thing foliated , or thinly beaten . Eleven ounces two pence sterling ought to be of so pure silver , as is called ...
... o'er with trifles . 3. One side of a double door . Swift . The two leaves of the one door were folding . 1 Kings . 4. Any thing foliated , or thinly beaten . Eleven ounces two pence sterling ought to be of so pure silver , as is called ...
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... o'er the rails he musing stood . Gay . ' Mid the central depth of black'ning woods , High rais'd in solemn theatre around Leans the huge elephant . 2. To propend ; to tend toward . Thomson . They delight rather to lean to their old cus ...
... o'er the rails he musing stood . Gay . ' Mid the central depth of black'ning woods , High rais'd in solemn theatre around Leans the huge elephant . 2. To propend ; to tend toward . Thomson . They delight rather to lean to their old cus ...
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... o'er ; Leaping and bounding on the billows heads , Till safely we had reach'd the farther shore . Drydens 8. Gayly ; airily ; with levity ; without heed or care . LIGHTMINDED . adj . [ light and mind . ] Unsettled ; unsteady . He that ...
... o'er ; Leaping and bounding on the billows heads , Till safely we had reach'd the farther shore . Drydens 8. Gayly ; airily ; with levity ; without heed or care . LIGHTMINDED . adj . [ light and mind . ] Unsettled ; unsteady . He that ...
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... o'er the backside of the world far off , Into a limbo large , and broad , since call'd The paradise of fools . Milton's Par . Lost . 2. Any place of misery and restraint . For he no sooner was at large , But Trulla straight brought on ...
... o'er the backside of the world far off , Into a limbo large , and broad , since call'd The paradise of fools . Milton's Par . Lost . 2. Any place of misery and restraint . For he no sooner was at large , But Trulla straight brought on ...
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