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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... eye doth his effigies witness , Most truly limn'd , and living in your face . Shakspeare . Emblems limned in lively ... eyes , They make the fishes and the men their prize . Waller . 5. Lineaments , or marks in the hand or face . Long ...
... eye doth his effigies witness , Most truly limn'd , and living in your face . Shakspeare . Emblems limned in lively ... eyes , They make the fishes and the men their prize . Waller . 5. Lineaments , or marks in the hand or face . Long ...
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... eyes . Philips . To LISTEN . v . a . To hear ; to attend . Obsolete . Lady , vouchsafe to listen what I say . Shaksp . One cried , God bless us ! and , amen ! the other : As they had seen me with these hangman's hands , Listening their ...
... eyes . Philips . To LISTEN . v . a . To hear ; to attend . Obsolete . Lady , vouchsafe to listen what I say . Shaksp . One cried , God bless us ! and , amen ! the other : As they had seen me with these hangman's hands , Listening their ...
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... eyes ; she the overthrow of my de- sires , and yet the recompence of my overthrow . Sidney . My Helice , the loadstar of my life . Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet air ! More tuneable than lark to ...
... eyes ; she the overthrow of my de- sires , and yet the recompence of my overthrow . Sidney . My Helice , the loadstar of my life . Spenser . O happy fair ! Your eyes are loadstars , and your tongue sweet air ! More tuneable than lark to ...
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... eyes ? Rowe . LOATHER . n . s . [ from loath . ] One that loathes . LO ATHFUL . adj . [ loath and full . ] 1. Abhorring ; hating . Which he did with loathful eyes behold , He would no more endure . 2. Abhorred ; hated . Hubberd . Above ...
... eyes ? Rowe . LOATHER . n . s . [ from loath . ] One that loathes . LO ATHFUL . adj . [ loath and full . ] 1. Abhorring ; hating . Which he did with loathful eyes behold , He would no more endure . 2. Abhorred ; hated . Hubberd . Above ...
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... eye , And where care lodgeth , sleep will never lie . Shakspeare . Something holy lodges in that breast , And with these ... eyes . To LOCK . v . n . 1. To become fast by a lock . Gay , For not of wood , nor of enduring brass , Doubly ...
... eye , And where care lodgeth , sleep will never lie . Shakspeare . Something holy lodges in that breast , And with these ... eyes . To LOCK . v . n . 1. To become fast by a lock . Gay , For not of wood , nor of enduring brass , Doubly ...
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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