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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... pass their lives on shore . LANDLORD . n . s . [ land and lord . ] 1. One who owns lands or houses , and has tenants ... passes over one pleasing prospect for another . Addison . 2. A picture , representing an extent of space ...
... pass their lives on shore . LANDLORD . n . s . [ land and lord . ] 1. One who owns lands or houses , and has tenants ... passes over one pleasing prospect for another . Addison . 2. A picture , representing an extent of space ...
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... pass . lent . [ lænan , Saxon ; lernen , Dutch . ] 1. To afford or supply , on condition of repayment . In common worldly things ' tis call'd ungrateful With dull unwillingness to pay a debr , Which , with a bounteous hand , was kindly ...
... pass . lent . [ lænan , Saxon ; lernen , Dutch . ] 1. To afford or supply , on condition of repayment . In common worldly things ' tis call'd ungrateful With dull unwillingness to pay a debr , Which , with a bounteous hand , was kindly ...
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... pass the time of sleep . The watchful traveller , Mark . That by the moon's mistaken light did rise , Lay down again , and clos'd his weary eyes . Dryden . Forlorn he must , and persecuted flie ; Climb the steep mountain , in the cavern ...
... pass the time of sleep . The watchful traveller , Mark . That by the moon's mistaken light did rise , Lay down again , and clos'd his weary eyes . Dryden . Forlorn he must , and persecuted flie ; Climb the steep mountain , in the cavern ...
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... pass through a kind of lobby between that room and the next , where were divers attending him . Wotton . Try your backstairs , and let the lobby wait , A stratagem in war is no deceit . King . LOBE . n . s . [ lobe , Fr. λοβος . ] A ...
... pass through a kind of lobby between that room and the next , where were divers attending him . Wotton . Try your backstairs , and let the lobby wait , A stratagem in war is no deceit . King . LOBE . n . s . [ lobe , Fr. λοβος . ] A ...
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... pass Rhene , or the Danaw , when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south . Το LOTTER . v . n . [ loteren , Dutch . ] To linger ; to spend time carelessly ; to idle . Sir John , you leiter here too long , being you are to take ...
... pass Rhene , or the Danaw , when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south . Το LOTTER . v . n . [ loteren , Dutch . ] To linger ; to spend time carelessly ; to idle . Sir John , you leiter here too long , being you are to take ...
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