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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... hath been used for money , as among the Lacedemonians , iron linguets quench- ed with vinegar , that they may serve to no other Camden . use . Bacon . LINGO . n . s . [ Portuguese . ] Language ; tongue ; speech . A low cant word . I ...
... hath been used for money , as among the Lacedemonians , iron linguets quench- ed with vinegar , that they may serve to no other Camden . use . Bacon . LINGO . n . s . [ Portuguese . ] Language ; tongue ; speech . A low cant word . I ...
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... hath God been to us , as to tipe together our duty and our interest , and to make. LINGUA CIOUS . adj . [ linguax , Latin . ] Full of tongue ; loquacious ; talkative . LINGUADE NTAL . adj . [ lingua and dens , Latin . ] Uttered by the ...
... hath God been to us , as to tipe together our duty and our interest , and to make. LINGUA CIOUS . adj . [ linguax , Latin . ] Full of tongue ; loquacious ; talkative . LINGUADE NTAL . adj . [ lingua and dens , Latin . ] Uttered by the ...
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... hath yet received adjections from the mul- tiplying conceits of men . Brown . MAGNIFICAL . MAGNIFICK . great ; noble . adj . [ magnificus , Lat . ] Illustrious ; grand ; Proper , but little used . The house that is to be builded for the ...
... hath yet received adjections from the mul- tiplying conceits of men . Brown . MAGNIFICAL . MAGNIFICK . great ; noble . adj . [ magnificus , Lat . ] Illustrious ; grand ; Proper , but little used . The house that is to be builded for the ...
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... hath made all things for himself . Proverbs . Remember'st thou Thy making , while the Maker gave thee being ? Milton . 2. To form of materials . He fashioned it with a graving tool , after he had made it a molton calf . Exodus . God hath ...
... hath made all things for himself . Proverbs . Remember'st thou Thy making , while the Maker gave thee being ? Milton . 2. To form of materials . He fashioned it with a graving tool , after he had made it a molton calf . Exodus . God hath ...
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... hath made me a by - word of the people . Job . Mate ye him drunken ; for he magnified himself against the Lord . Jeremiah . Joseph was not willing to make her a publick example . Mattber . By the assistance of this faculty we have all ...
... hath made me a by - word of the people . Job . Mate ye him drunken ; for he magnified himself against the Lord . Jeremiah . Joseph was not willing to make her a publick example . Mattber . By the assistance of this faculty we have all ...
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