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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... pains ; toil ; travail work . If I find her honest , I lose not try.labour ; if she be otherwise , it is labour well ... pain ! Mythrows come thicker , and my cries encreas'd , Which with her hand the conscious nurse sup- press'd ...
... pains ; toil ; travail work . If I find her honest , I lose not try.labour ; if she be otherwise , it is labour well ... pain ! Mythrows come thicker , and my cries encreas'd , Which with her hand the conscious nurse sup- press'd ...
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... pain , Not show'rs to larks , or sun - shine to the bee , Are half so charming , as thy sight to me . Pope . Yet ... pains in any employ . ment . Sir , I am a true labourer ; I earn that I eat ; get that I wear ; owe no man hate ...
... pain , Not show'rs to larks , or sun - shine to the bee , Are half so charming , as thy sight to me . Pope . Yet ... pains in any employ . ment . Sir , I am a true labourer ; I earn that I eat ; get that I wear ; owe no man hate ...
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... pain , Must own , that pain is largely paid By gen'rous wines beneath the shade . 4. Abundantly ; without sparing . Swift . They their fill of love , and love's disport , Took largely ; of their mutual guilt the seal . LA'RGENESS . N. s ...
... pain , Must own , that pain is largely paid By gen'rous wines beneath the shade . 4. Abundantly ; without sparing . Swift . They their fill of love , and love's disport , Took largely ; of their mutual guilt the seal . LA'RGENESS . N. s ...
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... pain arising from hard labour . Lassitude is remedied by bathing , or anointing with oil and warm water ; for all lassitude is a kind of contusion and compression of the parts ; and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emollition ...
... pain arising from hard labour . Lassitude is remedied by bathing , or anointing with oil and warm water ; for all lassitude is a kind of contusion and compression of the parts ; and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emollition ...
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... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Dryd . LE'NITIVE . adj . [ lenitif , Fr. lenio , Lat . ] Assuasive ; emollient . Some plants have a milk in them ; the cause may be an inception of putrefaction : for those milks have ...
... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Dryd . LE'NITIVE . adj . [ lenitif , Fr. lenio , Lat . ] Assuasive ; emollient . Some plants have a milk in them ; the cause may be an inception of putrefaction : for those milks have ...
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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