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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... land , not be laid by as persons unnecessary for the time . Bacon . She went away and laid by her veil . Genesis . Did they not swear to live and die With Essex , and straight laid him by ? Hudib . For that look , which does your people ...
... land , not be laid by as persons unnecessary for the time . Bacon . She went away and laid by her veil . Genesis . Did they not swear to live and die With Essex , and straight laid him by ? Hudib . For that look , which does your people ...
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... lands . Way , cousin , wer't thou regent of the world , It were a shame to let this land by lease . Shaksp . Lords of the world have but for life their lease , And that too , if the lessor please , must cease . Denbam . I have heard a ...
... lands . Way , cousin , wer't thou regent of the world , It were a shame to let this land by lease . Shaksp . Lords of the world have but for life their lease , And that too , if the lessor please , must cease . Denbam . I have heard a ...
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... land ; Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund . 2. Genuinely . By degrees he rose to Jove's imperial seat ; Thus difficulties prove a soul legitimately great . Dryden . LEGITIMATION . n . s . [ legitimation , Fr. from legitimate ...
... land ; Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund . 2. Genuinely . By degrees he rose to Jove's imperial seat ; Thus difficulties prove a soul legitimately great . Dryden . LEGITIMATION . n . s . [ legitimation , Fr. from legitimate ...
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... land , and therefore cures the green sickness and lyings in . Spectator . When Florimel design'd to lie privately in ; She chose with such prudence her pangs to con- ceal , That her nurse , nay her midwife , scarce heard her once squeal ...
... land , and therefore cures the green sickness and lyings in . Spectator . When Florimel design'd to lie privately in ; She chose with such prudence her pangs to con- ceal , That her nurse , nay her midwife , scarce heard her once squeal ...
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... Land some of our passengers , And light this weary vessel of her load . Fairy Q. To LIGHT . V. n . [ lickt , chance , Dutch ; preter . lighted , or light , or lit. ] 1. To happen to find ; to fall upon by chance it has on before the ...
... Land some of our passengers , And light this weary vessel of her load . Fairy Q. To LIGHT . V. n . [ lickt , chance , Dutch ; preter . lighted , or light , or lit. ] 1. To happen to find ; to fall upon by chance it has on before the ...
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