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, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... better Jove . Dryden and Lee . Me , only me , the hand of fortune bore , Unblest to tread the interdicted shore ; When Jove tremendous in the sable deeps , Launch'd his red lightning at our scatter'd ships . Pope . LANCINATION . n . s ...
... better Jove . Dryden and Lee . Me , only me , the hand of fortune bore , Unblest to tread the interdicted shore ; When Jove tremendous in the sable deeps , Launch'd his red lightning at our scatter'd ships . Pope . LANCINATION . n . s ...
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... better landlocked , and closed on all sides , than this seems to have been . Addison on Italy . LANDLOPER . n . s . [ land and lopen , Dut . ] A landman ; a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore ...
... better landlocked , and closed on all sides , than this seems to have been . Addison on Italy . LANDLOPER . n . s . [ land and lopen , Dut . ] A landman ; a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore ...
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... better satisfy your piety , than by lay- ing before you a prospect of your labours . Wake . That treaty hath been laid before the com- Swift . Their office it is to lay the business of the na- tion before him . Addison . 35. TO LAY by ...
... better satisfy your piety , than by lay- ing before you a prospect of your labours . Wake . That treaty hath been laid before the com- Swift . Their office it is to lay the business of the na- tion before him . Addison . 35. TO LAY by ...
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... better let alone : he is fain to resolve all into present pos- session . Locke . Nestor , do not let us alone till you have shortened our necks , and reduced them to their antient standard . Addison . This notion might be let alone and ...
... better let alone : he is fain to resolve all into present pos- session . Locke . Nestor , do not let us alone till you have shortened our necks , and reduced them to their antient standard . Addison . This notion might be let alone and ...
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... better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft . Shakspeare . 2. The body of lieutenants . The list of undisputed masters , is hardly so long as the list of the lieutenancy of our metro- polis . Felton on the Classics . LIEUTENANT ...
... better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft . Shakspeare . 2. The body of lieutenants . The list of undisputed masters , is hardly so long as the list of the lieutenancy of our metro- polis . Felton on the Classics . LIEUTENANT ...
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