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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... tion . The Helots bent thitherward with a new life of resolution , as if their captain had been a root out of which their courage had sprung . Sidney . They have no notion of life and fire in fancy and in words ; and any thing that is ...
... tion . The Helots bent thitherward with a new life of resolution , as if their captain had been a root out of which their courage had sprung . Sidney . They have no notion of life and fire in fancy and in words ; and any thing that is ...
Page 30
... tion for was . Report being carried secretly from one to another in my ship , bad like to have been my Raleigh . utter overthrow . LIKE . adv . 1. In the same manner ; in the same man- ner as : it is not always easy to deter- mine ...
... tion for was . Report being carried secretly from one to another in my ship , bad like to have been my Raleigh . utter overthrow . LIKE . adv . 1. In the same manner ; in the same man- ner as : it is not always easy to deter- mine ...
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... tion is unsettled . Skinner mentions lapp , German , foolish ; and Junius , llabe , a clown , Welsh , which seem to be the true original , unless it come from lob . ] A lubber ; a clumsy clown . The viees trace From the father's ...
... tion is unsettled . Skinner mentions lapp , German , foolish ; and Junius , llabe , a clown , Welsh , which seem to be the true original , unless it come from lob . ] A lubber ; a clumsy clown . The viees trace From the father's ...
Page 52
... tion and lubrification of the heads of the bones ; an oily one , furnished by the marrow ; a muci- laginous , supplied by certain glandules seated in the articulations . Ray on the Creation . LUBRIFA'CTION.n.s . [ lubricus and facio ...
... tion and lubrification of the heads of the bones ; an oily one , furnished by the marrow ; a muci- laginous , supplied by certain glandules seated in the articulations . Ray on the Creation . LUBRIFA'CTION.n.s . [ lubricus and facio ...
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... tion of the meat into a chyle . Ray on the Creat . MACE - REED . n.s. [ typha . ] An herb . MACHINAL . adj . [ from machina , Lat . ] Relating to machines . To MACHINATΕ . υ . α . [ machinor , Latin ; machiner , French . ] To plan ; to ...
... tion of the meat into a chyle . Ray on the Creat . MACE - REED . n.s. [ typha . ] An herb . MACHINAL . adj . [ from machina , Lat . ] Relating to machines . To MACHINATΕ . υ . α . [ machinor , Latin ; machiner , French . ] To plan ; to ...
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Addison Æneid 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 father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look loose lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick 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 Waller Watts word Wotton young