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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... colour we most fix on , and are most led by . Locke . LEDGE . . . leggen , Dutch , to lie . ] 1. A row ; laver , stratum . The lowest ledge or row should be merely of stone , closely lid , without mortar : a general caution for all ...
... colour we most fix on , and are most led by . Locke . LEDGE . . . leggen , Dutch , to lie . ] 1. A row ; laver , stratum . The lowest ledge or row should be merely of stone , closely lid , without mortar : a general caution for all ...
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... colour of a lewd custom , they did afterwards use the same oppressions by warrant . Davies . Lustful ; libidinous . He is not lolling on a lerud love - bed ; But on his knees at meditation . Shakspeare . Then lead Anchemolus he laid in ...
... colour of a lewd custom , they did afterwards use the same oppressions by warrant . Davies . Lustful ; libidinous . He is not lolling on a lerud love - bed ; But on his knees at meditation . Shakspeare . Then lead Anchemolus he laid in ...
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... colour are but one and the same thing : no colour more re- sembles the air than white , and by consequence no colour which is lighter . Dryden . Two cylindrick bodies with annular sulci , found with sharks teeth , and other shells , in ...
... colour are but one and the same thing : no colour more re- sembles the air than white , and by consequence no colour which is lighter . Dryden . Two cylindrick bodies with annular sulci , found with sharks teeth , and other shells , in ...
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... colours again emerged out of the whiteness , the violet and the blue at its inward limb , and at its outward limb the red ... colour , shape , and size Assume , as likes them best , condense , or rare . Milton . 2. To tear asunder ; to ...
... colours again emerged out of the whiteness , the violet and the blue at its inward limb , and at its outward limb the red ... colour , shape , and size Assume , as likes them best , condense , or rare . Milton . 2. To tear asunder ; to ...
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... colour Peter's hat . Shakspeare , To LINK . v . a . [ from the noun . ] 1. To complicate ; as , the links of a chain . Descending tread us down , Thus drooping ; or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph ...
... colour Peter's hat . Shakspeare , To LINK . v . a . [ from the noun . ] 1. To complicate ; as , the links of a chain . Descending tread us down , Thus drooping ; or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph ...
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