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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... unto them . L'Estrange . Hosea . 15. To propagate plants by fixing their twigs in the ground . The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July , when the flowers are gone . 16. To wager ; to stake . Mortimer . But since you will be mad ...
... unto them . L'Estrange . Hosea . 15. To propagate plants by fixing their twigs in the ground . The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July , when the flowers are gone . 16. To wager ; to stake . Mortimer . But since you will be mad ...
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... unto him , he , seeing himself confronted by so many , like a resolute orator , went not to denial , but to justify his cruel false- hood . Sidney . them happy , they would have more , and laid 54. To LAY to . To apply with vigour . in ...
... unto him , he , seeing himself confronted by so many , like a resolute orator , went not to denial , but to justify his cruel false- hood . Sidney . them happy , they would have more , and laid 54. To LAY to . To apply with vigour . in ...
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... unto him , how to feed his beasts before noon , and where to shade them in the extreme Sidney . heat . Wrangling pedant , When in musick we have spent an hour , Your lecture shall have leisure for as much , Shakspeare . When letters ...
... unto him , how to feed his beasts before noon , and where to shade them in the extreme Sidney . heat . Wrangling pedant , When in musick we have spent an hour , Your lecture shall have leisure for as much , Shakspeare . When letters ...
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... unto the left , and are not with- out great difficulty restr . ined from it . Brown's Vulg . Errours . The right to Pluto's golden palace guides , The left to that unhappy region tends , Which to the depth of Tartarus descends . Dryd ...
... unto the left , and are not with- out great difficulty restr . ined from it . Brown's Vulg . Errours . The right to Pluto's golden palace guides , The left to that unhappy region tends , Which to the depth of Tartarus descends . Dryd ...
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... unto thy leman take . A cup of wine , That's brisk and fine , And drink unto the leman mine . Spenser . Shaksp . LE'MMA . n . 5. [ λήμμα ; lemme , French . ] A proposition previously assumed . LE'MON . n . 5. [ limon , Fr. limonium ...
... unto thy leman take . A cup of wine , That's brisk and fine , And drink unto the leman mine . Spenser . Shaksp . LE'MMA . n . 5. [ λήμμα ; lemme , French . ] A proposition previously assumed . LE'MON . n . 5. [ limon , Fr. limonium ...
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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