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 3 |
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To pass ; to spend in any certain manThose escaped by flight , not without a sharp ner . jest against their leaders , affuming , that , as they The sweet woman leads an ill life with him . had followed them into the field , so it was ...
To pass ; to spend in any certain manThose escaped by flight , not without a sharp ner . jest against their leaders , affuming , that , as they The sweet woman leads an ill life with him . had followed them into the field , so it was ...
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TO LEND . v . a . preterit , and part . pass . kent . ( lanan , Saxon ; lanen , Dutch . ] 1. To afford or supply , on condition of repayment . In common worldly things ' tis callid ungrateful With dull unwillingness to pay a debt ...
TO LEND . v . a . preterit , and part . pass . kent . ( lanan , Saxon ; lanen , Dutch . ] 1. To afford or supply , on condition of repayment . In common worldly things ' tis callid ungrateful With dull unwillingness to pay a debt ...
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The part . pass . from lend . trious than the other ; for it riseth not in disBv Jove the stranger and the poor are sent , tillation . Brown . And what to those we give , to Jove is lent . Popes LE'od . n . s . Leod signifies the people ...
The part . pass . from lend . trious than the other ; for it riseth not in disBv Jove the stranger and the poor are sent , tillation . Brown . And what to those we give , to Jove is lent . Popes LE'od . n . s . Leod signifies the people ...
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To exhibit false representation . not be denied but princes may pass their time Inform us , will the emp'ror treat ? advantageously that way ; Temple . Or do the prints and papers lie ? Swift . I would recommend the studies of knowledge ...
To exhibit false representation . not be denied but princes may pass their time Inform us , will the emp'ror treat ? advantageously that way ; Temple . Or do the prints and papers lie ? Swift . I would recommend the studies of knowledge ...
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... no lock so firm and fast , stood expecting till he should pass through a kind But with that piercing noise flew open quit or of baby between that room and the next , where brast . Spenser . were divers artending him . Wotton .
... no lock so firm and fast , stood expecting till he should pass through a kind But with that piercing noise flew open quit or of baby between that room and the next , where brast . Spenser . were divers artending him . Wotton .
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| Title | 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 3 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
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