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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... which might have the least appearance of information . Pope . 2. To beat ; to belabour . Take , shepherd , take a plant of stubborn oak , And labour him with many a sturdy stroke . Dryden . LA'BOURER . n . s . [ laboureur , French LAB LAB.
... which might have the least appearance of information . Pope . 2. To beat ; to belabour . Take , shepherd , take a plant of stubborn oak , And labour him with many a sturdy stroke . Dryden . LA'BOURER . n . s . [ laboureur , French LAB LAB.
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... plant of the stellate kind . LADY - BIRD . LA'DY - COw . LADY - FLY . } Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . This lady - Ay I take from off the grass , Whose spotted ...
... plant of the stellate kind . LADY - BIRD . LA'DY - COw . LADY - FLY . } Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . This lady - Ay I take from off the grass , Whose spotted ...
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... plant with liquid sap , And fills with flow'rs fair Flora's painted lap . Spenser . Upon a day , as love lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m'ring , Spenser . About him flew by hap ...
... plant with liquid sap , And fills with flow'rs fair Flora's painted lap . Spenser . Upon a day , as love lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m'ring , Spenser . About him flew by hap ...
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... plant . LA'RVATED . adj . [ larvatus , Lat . ] Mask- ed . Dict . LA'RUM . n . 5. [ from alarum or alarm . ] 1. Alarm ; noise noting danger . His larum bell might loud and wide be heard , When cause requir'd , but never out of time ...
... plant . LA'RVATED . adj . [ larvatus , Lat . ] Mask- ed . Dict . LA'RUM . n . 5. [ from alarum or alarm . ] 1. Alarm ; noise noting danger . His larum bell might loud and wide be heard , When cause requir'd , but never out of time ...
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... plant . for It is one of the verticillate plants , whose flower consists of one leaf , divided into two lips ; the upper lip , standing upright , is roundish , and , the most part , bifid ; but the under lip is cut into three segments ...
... plant . for It is one of the verticillate plants , whose flower consists of one leaf , divided into two lips ; the upper lip , standing upright , is roundish , and , the most part , bifid ; but the under lip is cut into three segments ...
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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