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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... fall . Woodward . 3. To lessen ; to make less in price or value . The kingdom will loose by this lowering of in- terest , if it makes foreigners withdraw any of their money . Locke . Some people know it is for their advantage to lawer ...
... fall . Woodward . 3. To lessen ; to make less in price or value . The kingdom will loose by this lowering of in- terest , if it makes foreigners withdraw any of their money . Locke . Some people know it is for their advantage to lawer ...
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... Fall'n in just ranks or wedges , lunes , or squares . Firm as they stood . Watts . 2. Fits of lunacy or frenzy ; mad freaks . The French say of a man fantastical or whimsical , Il a des lunes . Hanmer . • Bestrew them These dangerous ...
... Fall'n in just ranks or wedges , lunes , or squares . Firm as they stood . Watts . 2. Fits of lunacy or frenzy ; mad freaks . The French say of a man fantastical or whimsical , Il a des lunes . Hanmer . • Bestrew them These dangerous ...
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... fall Lux'd his joint neck , and spinal marrow bruis'd . Philips . LUXATION . n . s . [ from luxo , Latin . ] 1. The act of disjointing . 2. Any thing disjointed . The undue situation or connexion of parts , in fractures and luxations ...
... fall Lux'd his joint neck , and spinal marrow bruis'd . Philips . LUXATION . n . s . [ from luxo , Latin . ] 1. The act of disjointing . 2. Any thing disjointed . The undue situation or connexion of parts , in fractures and luxations ...
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... fall his bock , And as he stoop'd again to take it up , This madbrain'd bridegroom took him such a cuft , That down ... falls Birds sing melodious madrigals . Shakspeare . His artful strains have oft delay'd The hudding brook to hear his ...
... fall his bock , And as he stoop'd again to take it up , This madbrain'd bridegroom took him such a cuft , That down ... falls Birds sing melodious madrigals . Shakspeare . His artful strains have oft delay'd The hudding brook to hear his ...
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... falling ; then is it a pleasure to be great , and to be able to dispose of men's fortunes . South . 2. To mischief ; to ... fall . Give that rev'rend nead a mall Or two or three , against a wall , Fairy Queen . Hudibras . 3. A walk where ...
... falling ; then is it a pleasure to be great , and to be able to dispose of men's fortunes . South . 2. To mischief ; to ... fall . Give that rev'rend nead a mall Or two or three , against a wall , Fairy Queen . Hudibras . 3. A walk where ...
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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