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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... optick nerves of such animals as look the 8. LONGLY . adv . [ from long . ] Longingly ; with great liking . Master , you look'd so longly on the maid , Perhaps , you mark not what's the pith of all . Shakspeare . LO'NGSOME . adj ...
... optick nerves of such animals as look the 8. LONGLY . adv . [ from long . ] Longingly ; with great liking . Master , you look'd so longly on the maid , Perhaps , you mark not what's the pith of all . Shakspeare . LO'NGSOME . adj ...
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... optick nerves of such animals as look the 8. To have any air , mien , or manner . . same way with both eyes , as of men , meet be- fore they come into the brain : but the optick nerves of such animals as do not look the same way with ...
... optick nerves of such animals as look the 8. To have any air , mien , or manner . . same way with both eyes , as of men , meet be- fore they come into the brain : but the optick nerves of such animals as do not look the same way with ...
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... optick tube yet never saw . Milton . LUCERN . M. s . [ medica . ] An herb re- markable for quick growth . LUCID . adj . [ lucidus , Lat . lucide , Fr. ] 1. Shining ; brigh bright ; glittering . Over his lucid arms A military vest of ...
... optick tube yet never saw . Milton . LUCERN . M. s . [ medica . ] An herb re- markable for quick growth . LUCID . adj . [ lucidus , Lat . lucide , Fr. ] 1. Shining ; brigh bright ; glittering . Over his lucid arms A military vest of ...
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... optick instru- ment , contrived various ways to give to the eye a large appearance of many objects which could not ... opticks given , T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Pope . MID . adj . [ contracted from middle ...
... optick instru- ment , contrived various ways to give to the eye a large appearance of many objects which could not ... opticks given , T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Pope . MID . adj . [ contracted from middle ...
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... opticks . It seems not agreeable to what anatomists and optical writers deliver , touching the relation of the two eyes to each other . Boyle . OPTICIAN . n . 5. [ from optick . ] One skilled in opticks . adj . O'PTICK . [ οπτικο ...
... opticks . It seems not agreeable to what anatomists and optical writers deliver , touching the relation of the two eyes to each other . Boyle . OPTICIAN . n . 5. [ from optick . ] One skilled in opticks . adj . O'PTICK . [ οπτικο ...
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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