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 in fading colours ; and , if not sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To put into any state of quiet . They bragged , that they doubted not but to abuse , and lay asleep , the queen and council of England . Bacon ...
... laid in fading colours ; and , if not sometimes refreshed , vanish and disappear . Locke . 1. To put into any state of quiet . They bragged , that they doubted not but to abuse , and lay asleep , the queen and council of England . Bacon ...
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... laid the winds . Milton . After a tempest , when the winds are laid , The calm sea wonders at the wrecks it made . Waller . I fear'd I should have found A tempest in your soul , and came to lay it . Denham . At once the wind was laid ...
... laid the winds . Milton . After a tempest , when the winds are laid , The calm sea wonders at the wrecks it made . Waller . I fear'd I should have found A tempest in your soul , and came to lay it . Denham . At once the wind was laid ...
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... laid Ortygius on the plain , The victor Caneus was by Turnus slain . Dryden . He took the quiver and the trusty bow ... lay me forth ; although unqueen'd LAY LAY.
... laid Ortygius on the plain , The victor Caneus was by Turnus slain . Dryden . He took the quiver and the trusty bow ... lay me forth ; although unqueen'd LAY LAY.
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... LAY bold of . To seize ; to catch . Then shall his father and his mother lay bold him , and bring him out . Deuteronomy . Favourable seasons of aptitude and inclination , be heedfully laid bold of . " Locke . 45. TO LAY in . To store ...
... LAY bold of . To seize ; to catch . Then shall his father and his mother lay bold him , and bring him out . Deuteronomy . Favourable seasons of aptitude and inclination , be heedfully laid bold of . " Locke . 45. TO LAY in . To store ...
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... lay , The passing winds through their torn canvass play . Dryden . LEECH . . . [ læc , Saxon . ] J. A physician ; a professor of the art of healing : whence we still use convleech . A leib , the which had great insight , In that disease ...
... lay , The passing winds through their torn canvass play . Dryden . LEECH . . . [ læc , Saxon . ] J. A physician ; a professor of the art of healing : whence we still use convleech . A leib , the which had great insight , In that disease ...
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