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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... spirits of wine instead of oil , and the same flame has melted foliated gold . Boyle . 1. Any kind of light , in poetical language , real or metaphorical . Thy gentle eyes send forth a quick'ning spirit , And feed the dying lamp of life ...
... spirits of wine instead of oil , and the same flame has melted foliated gold . Boyle . 1. Any kind of light , in poetical language , real or metaphorical . Thy gentle eyes send forth a quick'ning spirit , And feed the dying lamp of life ...
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... spirit to walk . The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a petticoat , but the rattling of a bladder with beans in it . 14. To set on the table . I laid meat unto them . L'Estrange . Hosea . 15. To propagate plants by fixing ...
... spirit to walk . The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a petticoat , but the rattling of a bladder with beans in it . 14. To set on the table . I laid meat unto them . L'Estrange . Hosea . 15. To propagate plants by fixing ...
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... spirit . Boyle . In the spring fell great rains , upon which en- sued a most destructive mildew upon the corn and legumes . Arbuthnet . LEGUMINOUS . adj . [ legumineux , Fr. from legumen . ] Belonging to pulse ; consisting of pulse ...
... spirit . Boyle . In the spring fell great rains , upon which en- sued a most destructive mildew upon the corn and legumes . Arbuthnet . LEGUMINOUS . adj . [ legumineux , Fr. from legumen . ] Belonging to pulse ; consisting of pulse ...
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... spirit of religion and seriousness vanish- ed , and a spirit of levity and libertinism , infidelity , and profaneness , started up in the room of it . Atterbury . To LE'VY . v . a . [ lever , French . ] 1. To raise ; to bring together ...
... spirit of religion and seriousness vanish- ed , and a spirit of levity and libertinism , infidelity , and profaneness , started up in the room of it . Atterbury . To LE'VY . v . a . [ lever , French . ] 1. To raise ; to bring together ...
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... spirit of religion and seriousness vanish- ed all at once , and a spirit of liberty and liber- tinism , of infidelity and profaneness , started up in the room of it . Atterbury's Sermons . LIBERTY . n.s. [ liberté , French ; libertas ...
... spirit of religion and seriousness vanish- ed all at once , and a spirit of liberty and liber- tinism , of infidelity and profaneness , started up in the room of it . Atterbury's Sermons . LIBERTY . n.s. [ liberté , French ; libertas ...
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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