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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... Saxon ; laetste , Dutch . ] 1. Latest ; that fellows all the rest in time . Why are ye the last to bring the king back ? Samuel . O , may some spark of your celestial fire , The last , the meanest , of your sons inspire ! Pope . 2 ...
... Saxon ; laetste , Dutch . ] 1. Latest ; that fellows all the rest in time . Why are ye the last to bring the king back ? Samuel . O , may some spark of your celestial fire , The last , the meanest , of your sons inspire ! Pope . 2 ...
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... Saxon . ] 1. Lead is the heaviest metal except gold and quicksilver . Lead is the softest of all the metals , and very ductile , though less so than gold : it is very little sub- ject to rust , and the least sonorous of all the metals ...
... Saxon . ] 1. Lead is the heaviest metal except gold and quicksilver . Lead is the softest of all the metals , and very ductile , though less so than gold : it is very little sub- ject to rust , and the least sonorous of all the metals ...
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... Saxon . ] 1. Made of lead . when it shall find Tristiger - footed rage , The nam of unskann'd switness , will too ... Ċ axon ; leef , Dutch . ] 1. The green deciduous parts of plants and flowers . This is the state of man ; to - day he ...
... Saxon . ] 1. Made of lead . when it shall find Tristiger - footed rage , The nam of unskann'd switness , will too ... Ċ axon ; leef , Dutch . ] 1. The green deciduous parts of plants and flowers . This is the state of man ; to - day he ...
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... could keep a secret . L'Estrange . To LEAN . v . n . preter . leanid or leant . [ blinan , Saxon ; lenen , Duten . ] 1. To incline against ; to rest against . 33 7 Thou chusest not to conquer men but hearts . Granville LEA LEA.
... could keep a secret . L'Estrange . To LEAN . v . n . preter . leanid or leant . [ blinan , Saxon ; lenen , Duten . ] 1. To incline against ; to rest against . 33 7 Thou chusest not to conquer men but hearts . Granville LEA LEA.
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... Saxon . ] 1. Not fat ; meagre ; wanting flesh ; bare- boned . You tempt the fury of my three attendants , Lean famine , quartering steel , and climbing fire . Shakspeare . Lian raw - bon'd rascals ! who would e'er sup- pose , They had ...
... Saxon . ] 1. Not fat ; meagre ; wanting flesh ; bare- boned . You tempt the fury of my three attendants , Lean famine , quartering steel , and climbing fire . Shakspeare . Lian raw - bon'd rascals ! who would e'er sup- pose , They had ...
Common terms and phrases
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