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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... stone that labours up the hill , Mocking Is love . the lab'rer's toil , returning still , Glanville . 4 .. To be diseased with . [ morbo laborare , Latin Not in use . They abound with horse , Of which one want our camp doth only labour ...
... stone that labours up the hill , Mocking Is love . the lab'rer's toil , returning still , Glanville . 4 .. To be diseased with . [ morbo laborare , Latin Not in use . They abound with horse , Of which one want our camp doth only labour ...
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... stone- cutter . Dict . LA PIDARY . N. s . [ lapidaire , Fr. ) One who deals in stones or gems . As a cock was turning up a dunghill , he espied a diamond : Well ( says he ) , this sparkling foollery now to a lapidary would have been of ...
... stone- cutter . Dict . LA PIDARY . N. s . [ lapidaire , Fr. ) One who deals in stones or gems . As a cock was turning up a dunghill , he espied a diamond : Well ( says he ) , this sparkling foollery now to a lapidary would have been of ...
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... stone would wrench th ' unwary step aside . Gay . 2. [ last , German . ) A load ; a certain weight or measure . LA'STERY . n . 5. A red colour . The bashful blood her snowy cheeks did spread , That her became as polish'd ivory , Which ...
... stone would wrench th ' unwary step aside . Gay . 2. [ last , German . ) A load ; a certain weight or measure . LA'STERY . n . 5. A red colour . The bashful blood her snowy cheeks did spread , That her became as polish'd ivory , Which ...
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... stone , suffer much more than those which consist of gravel , and the like laxer matter , which more easily give way . 3. Vague ; not rigidly exact . Woodward . Dialogues were only lax and moral discourses . Baker . We cite our faults ...
... stone , suffer much more than those which consist of gravel , and the like laxer matter , which more easily give way . 3. Vague ; not rigidly exact . Woodward . Dialogues were only lax and moral discourses . Baker . We cite our faults ...
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... stone was laid on the mouth of the den . Dan . 3. To beat down corn or grass . Another ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest . Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids the flowery meadows ...
... stone was laid on the mouth of the den . Dan . 3. To beat down corn or grass . Another ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest . Bacon's Nat . History . Let no sheep there play , Nor frisking kids the flowery meadows ...
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