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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... laid up dankish and wet . Bacon . LA NIGEROUS . adj . [ laniger , Lat . ] Bear- ing wool . LANK . adj . [ lancke ... lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m'ring , Spenser . About him ...
... laid up dankish and wet . Bacon . LA NIGEROUS . adj . [ laniger , Lat . ] Bear- ing wool . LANK . adj . [ lancke ... lay sweetly slumb'ring All in his mother's lap , A gentle bee , with his loud trumpet mur- m'ring , Spenser . About him ...
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... laid . He creeps , he walks , and issuing into man , Grudges their life from whence his own began : Retthless of ... lay in the field , Frozen almost to death , how he did lap me , Ev'n in his garments , and did give himself , All thin ...
... laid . He creeps , he walks , and issuing into man , Grudges their life from whence his own began : Retthless of ... lay in the field , Frozen almost to death , how he did lap me , Ev'n in his garments , and did give himself , All thin ...
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... laid . Dryd . No man lards salt pork with orange peel , Or garnishes his lamb with spitch - cockt eel . 2. To fatten . Now Falstaff sweats to death , And lards the lean earth as he walks along . King . Shakspeare . Brave soldier , doth ...
... laid . Dryd . No man lards salt pork with orange peel , Or garnishes his lamb with spitch - cockt eel . 2. To fatten . Now Falstaff sweats to death , And lards the lean earth as he walks along . King . Shakspeare . Brave soldier , doth ...
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... laid mouths each mounting billow laves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length , She seems a sea - wasp flying on the waves . Dryd lever , Fr. ] To throw up ; to lade ; to draw out . Though hills were set on hills , And seas ...
... laid mouths each mounting billow laves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length , She seems a sea - wasp flying on the waves . Dryd lever , Fr. ] To throw up ; to lade ; to draw out . Though hills were set on hills , And seas ...
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... laid of the lawfulness of the action . Bacon . 4 . 5 . Loose in body , so as to go frequently to stool ; laxative medicines are such as promote that disposition . Quincy . Slack ; not tense . By a branch of the auditory nerve that goes ...
... laid of the lawfulness of the action . Bacon . 4 . 5 . Loose in body , so as to go frequently to stool ; laxative medicines are such as promote that disposition . Quincy . Slack ; not tense . By a branch of the auditory nerve that goes ...
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