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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Sidney . they thought they had not yet enough to make them hapes , they would have more , and laid 54. TO LAY 10. To apply with virour . Let children be hired to lay to their bones , iz to make their solitude luxurious . Dryden .
Sidney . they thought they had not yet enough to make them hapes , they would have more , and laid 54. TO LAY 10. To apply with virour . Let children be hired to lay to their bones , iz to make their solitude luxurious . Dryden .
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All fermented meats and drinks are easiest Let us return , lest my father leave caring for digested ; and those unfermented , by barm or the asses , and take thought for us . 1 Samuel . leaven , are hardly digested . Floyer . 14.
All fermented meats and drinks are easiest Let us return , lest my father leave caring for digested ; and those unfermented , by barm or the asses , and take thought for us . 1 Samuel . leaven , are hardly digested . Floyer . 14.
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Lenient of grief and anxious thought . Milton . He had marched to the length of Exeter , which 3. Laxative ; emollient . he had some thought of besieging . Clarendon , Oils relax the fibres , are lenient , balsamick , Arlutbrot . 9.
Lenient of grief and anxious thought . Milton . He had marched to the length of Exeter , which 3. Laxative ; emollient . he had some thought of besieging . Clarendon , Oils relax the fibres , are lenient , balsamick , Arlutbrot . 9.
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If wanton They say this town is full of couzenage , glances and lividinous thought's had been perDisguised cheaters , prating mountebanks , mitted by the gospel , they would have apostaAnd many such like libertines of sin .
If wanton They say this town is full of couzenage , glances and lividinous thought's had been perDisguised cheaters , prating mountebanks , mitted by the gospel , they would have apostaAnd many such like libertines of sin .
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If an immodest thought , or low desire , Spenser . Inflam'd my breast since first our loves were At an uncertain lot none can find themselves lighted . Dryden . grieved on whomsoever it ligbtetb . Hooker . Absence might cure it , or a ...
If an immodest thought , or low desire , Spenser . Inflam'd my breast since first our loves were At an uncertain lot none can find themselves lighted . Dryden . grieved on whomsoever it ligbtetb . Hooker . Absence might cure it , or a ...
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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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