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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... mean , if dearth Or foizon follow . Shakspeare . The lowness of the bough where the fruit cometh , maketh the fruit greater , and to ripen better ; for you shall even see , in apricots upon a wall , the greatest fruits towards the ...
... mean , if dearth Or foizon follow . Shakspeare . The lowness of the bough where the fruit cometh , maketh the fruit greater , and to ripen better ; for you shall even see , in apricots upon a wall , the greatest fruits towards the ...
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... mean between too few and too many angles ; and through the equal inclination of the sides , they are stronger than the ... means introduces into them the matter it bears along Woodward . with it . 2. Uncertain . The judgment being the ...
... mean between too few and too many angles ; and through the equal inclination of the sides , they are stronger than the ... means introduces into them the matter it bears along Woodward . with it . 2. Uncertain . The judgment being the ...
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... means . LUXE . n . s . [ Fr. luxus , Lat . ] Luxury ; Floyer . voluptuousness Not used . The pow'r of wealth I try'd , And all the various luxe of costly pride . Prier . LUXURIANCE . n . s . [ from luxurians , LUXURIANCY . Lat ...
... means . LUXE . n . s . [ Fr. luxus , Lat . ] Luxury ; Floyer . voluptuousness Not used . The pow'r of wealth I try'd , And all the various luxe of costly pride . Prier . LUXURIANCE . n . s . [ from luxurians , LUXURIANCY . Lat ...
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... means , was clean made away . Spenser on Ireland . He may have a likely guess , How these were they that made away ... mean to pay , To some friend make all away . Waller . 33. TO MAKE account . To reckon ; to believe . They made no ...
... means , was clean made away . Spenser on Ireland . He may have a likely guess , How these were they that made away ... mean to pay , To some friend make all away . Waller . 33. TO MAKE account . To reckon ; to believe . They made no ...
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... means , as he became tenant to the king , so the inferiors became tenants to him : but those great men , or their posterity , have alienated these mansions and lands so given them by their prince , and many for capital offences have for ...
... means , as he became tenant to the king , so the inferiors became tenants to him : but those great men , or their posterity , have alienated these mansions and lands so given them by their prince , and many for capital offences have for ...
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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