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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... tree , he laps round about the boughs , to keep himself from falling . Grew's Museum . About the paper , whose two halves were painted with red and blue , and which was stiff like thin pasteboard , I lapped several times a slender ...
... tree , he laps round about the boughs , to keep himself from falling . Grew's Museum . About the paper , whose two halves were painted with red and blue , and which was stiff like thin pasteboard , I lapped several times a slender ...
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... tree . Some botanical criticks tell us , the poets have not rightly followed the traditions of antiquity , in metamorphosing the sisters of Phaeton into poplars , who ought to have been turned into Zarch trees ; for that it is this kind of ...
... tree . Some botanical criticks tell us , the poets have not rightly followed the traditions of antiquity , in metamorphosing the sisters of Phaeton into poplars , who ought to have been turned into Zarch trees ; for that it is this kind of ...
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... tree , called also the cherry bay . The laurus or laurel of the ancients is affirmed by naturalists to be what we call the bay tree . Ainsworth . The laurel , meed of mighty conquerors , And poets sage . The laurel or cherry - bay , by ...
... tree , called also the cherry bay . The laurus or laurel of the ancients is affirmed by naturalists to be what we call the bay tree . Ainsworth . The laurel , meed of mighty conquerors , And poets sage . The laurel or cherry - bay , by ...
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... trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leef about the solstice . Brown . LEAFLESS . adj . [ from leaf . ] Naked of leaves . Bare honesty , without some other adornment , being looked on as a leafless tree ...
... trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leef about the solstice . Brown . LEAFLESS . adj . [ from leaf . ] Naked of leaves . Bare honesty , without some other adornment , being looked on as a leafless tree ...
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... tree that bears lemons . Thomson . The lemon tree hath large stiff leaves ; the flower consists of many leaves , which expand in form of a rose : the fruit is almost of an oval fi- gure , and divided into several cells , in which are ...
... tree that bears lemons . Thomson . The lemon tree hath large stiff leaves ; the flower consists of many leaves , which expand in form of a rose : the fruit is almost of an oval fi- gure , and divided into several cells , in which are ...
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