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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... sense , Laughs at his thrift ; and lavish of expence , Quaffs , crams , and guttles , in his own defence . Dryden . The dame has been too lavish of her feast , And fed him till he loaths . Rowe's Jane Shore . 2. Scattered in waste ...
... sense , Laughs at his thrift ; and lavish of expence , Quaffs , crams , and guttles , in his own defence . Dryden . The dame has been too lavish of her feast , And fed him till he loaths . Rowe's Jane Shore . 2. Scattered in waste ...
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... sense . Prior . As Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , so it is manifest from this chap- ter , that St. Paul was a great master in all the 2. Skill in any thing good or bad . learning of the Greeks . Bentley The ...
... sense . Prior . As Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , so it is manifest from this chap- ter , that St. Paul was a great master in all the 2. Skill in any thing good or bad . learning of the Greeks . Bentley The ...
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... sense implying doubt ; to say no more ; to say the least ; not to say all that might be said . Whether such virtue spent now fail'd New angels to create , if they at least Are his created . Milton . Let use i observations be at least ...
... sense implying doubt ; to say no more ; to say the least ; not to say all that might be said . Whether such virtue spent now fail'd New angels to create , if they at least Are his created . Milton . Let use i observations be at least ...
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... sense . ] A whoremaster . I will now take the leacher ; he's at my house ; he cannot ' scape me . You , like a ... sense of the text . Bicken . LED 3. A magisterial reprimand ; a pedantick discourse . Addison . Numidia will be blest by ...
... sense . ] A whoremaster . I will now take the leacher ; he's at my house ; he cannot ' scape me . You , like a ... sense of the text . Bicken . LED 3. A magisterial reprimand ; a pedantick discourse . Addison . Numidia will be blest by ...
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... sense it is commonly joined with a particle . Joshua . She let them down by a cord through the window . Launch out into the deep , and let down your nets for a draught . Luke . Let down thy pitcher , that I may drink . Gen. The ...
... sense it is commonly joined with a particle . Joshua . She let them down by a cord through the window . Launch out into the deep , and let down your nets for a draught . Luke . Let down thy pitcher , that I may drink . Gen. The ...
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