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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... motion spirit and nature both impart . Daniel . LIFETIME . n . s . [ life and time . ] Con- tinuance or duration of ... motion of the joint their chief use is to fasten the bones , which are articulated together for motion , lest they ...
... motion spirit and nature both impart . Daniel . LIFETIME . n . s . [ life and time . ] Con- tinuance or duration of ... motion of the joint their chief use is to fasten the bones , which are articulated together for motion , lest they ...
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... motion or vegeta- Timple . tion . In a spacious cave of living stone , The tyrant olus , from his airy throne , With pow'r imperial curbs the struggling winds . Cool groves and living lakes Dryden . Give after toilsome days a soft ...
... motion or vegeta- Timple . tion . In a spacious cave of living stone , The tyrant olus , from his airy throne , With pow'r imperial curbs the struggling winds . Cool groves and living lakes Dryden . Give after toilsome days a soft ...
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... motion ; having some natural energy , or principle of action : as , the living green , the living springs . LIVING . n . s . [ from live . ] 1. Support ; maintenance ; fortune on which one lives . The Arcadians fought as in unknown ...
... motion ; having some natural energy , or principle of action : as , the living green , the living springs . LIVING . n . s . [ from live . ] 1. Support ; maintenance ; fortune on which one lives . The Arcadians fought as in unknown ...
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... motion , or a propensity to it , be an inherent quality belonging to atoms in general , and not loseable by them . Boyle . Lo'SEL . n . s . [ from lorian , to perish . ] A scoundrel ; a sorry worthless fellow . Obsolete . Such losels ...
... motion , or a propensity to it , be an inherent quality belonging to atoms in general , and not loseable by them . Boyle . Lo'SEL . n . s . [ from lorian , to perish . ] A scoundrel ; a sorry worthless fellow . Obsolete . Such losels ...
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... motion be continued , yet by interfering , that equal motion , which is the colorifick , is interrupted . LUCK . n . s . [ geluck , Dutch . ] Grizu . 1. Chance ; accident ; fortune ; hap ; ca- sual event . He forc'd his neck into a ...
... motion be continued , yet by interfering , that equal motion , which is the colorifick , is interrupted . LUCK . n . s . [ geluck , Dutch . ] Grizu . 1. Chance ; accident ; fortune ; hap ; ca- sual event . He forc'd his neck into a ...
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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