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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... blood , is elliptical for to let out blood . To free it from confinement ; to suffer it to stream out of the vein . Be rul'd by me ; Let's purge this choler without letting blood . Shakspeare . His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries ...
... blood , is elliptical for to let out blood . To free it from confinement ; to suffer it to stream out of the vein . Be rul'd by me ; Let's purge this choler without letting blood . Shakspeare . His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries ...
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... blood . ] The blood necessary to life ; the vital blood . Shaksb . This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprize . How couldst thou drain the lifeblood of the Shakspeare . child ? His forehead struck the ground ...
... blood . ] The blood necessary to life ; the vital blood . Shaksb . This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprize . How couldst thou drain the lifeblood of the Shakspeare . child ? His forehead struck the ground ...
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... blood hath free pas- sage through the pipe , yet will not the artery beat below the ligature ; but do but take off the liga- ture , it will beat immediately . Ray on the Creation . The many ligatures of our English dress check the ...
... blood hath free pas- sage through the pipe , yet will not the artery beat below the ligature ; but do but take off the liga- ture , it will beat immediately . Ray on the Creation . The many ligatures of our English dress check the ...
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... blood to lime the stones together , And set up Lancaster . 4. To manure ground with lime . Sbaksp . Encouragement that abatement of interest gave to landlords and tenants , to improve by draining , marling , and liming . Child . All ...
... blood to lime the stones together , And set up Lancaster . 4. To manure ground with lime . Sbaksp . Encouragement that abatement of interest gave to landlords and tenants , to improve by draining , marling , and liming . Child . All ...
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... Blood in princes link'd not in such sort , As that it is of any power to tye . 5. To connect as concomitant . New hope to spring , Out of despair ; joy , but with fear yet link'd . Milton . God has linkt our hopes and our duty toge ...
... Blood in princes link'd not in such sort , As that it is of any power to tye . 5. To connect as concomitant . New hope to spring , Out of despair ; joy , but with fear yet link'd . Milton . God has linkt our hopes and our duty toge ...
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Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word