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 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... grow less as , his passion abates ; the storm abates . It is used sometimes with the particle of before the thing lessened . Our physicians have observed , that in process of time , some diseases have abated of their viru lence , and ...
... grow less as , his passion abates ; the storm abates . It is used sometimes with the particle of before the thing lessened . Our physicians have observed , that in process of time , some diseases have abated of their viru lence , and ...
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... grow pale , And miss the pleasures of a glorious meal ? For this , in rags accoutred are they seen , And made the May - game of the public spleen ? Dryden . ACCOUTREMENT , n . s . [ accoûtrement , Fr. ] Dress ; equipage ; furniture re ...
... grow pale , And miss the pleasures of a glorious meal ? For this , in rags accoutred are they seen , And made the May - game of the public spleen ? Dryden . ACCOUTREMENT , n . s . [ accoûtrement , Fr. ] Dress ; equipage ; furniture re ...
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... grow oaks in our older heads , and become inflexible . Brown . Content with food which nature freely bred , On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble - berries gave the rest , And falling acorns furnish'd out a ...
... grow oaks in our older heads , and become inflexible . Brown . Content with food which nature freely bred , On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble - berries gave the rest , And falling acorns furnish'd out a ...
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... grow addle ; • Burton . And all the rest is purely from this noddle . Dryden . To A'DDLE . v . a . [ from addle , adj . ] To make addle ; to corrupt ; to make bar- ren . This is also evidenced in eggs , whereof the sound ones sink , and ...
... grow addle ; • Burton . And all the rest is purely from this noddle . Dryden . To A'DDLE . v . a . [ from addle , adj . ] To make addle ; to corrupt ; to make bar- ren . This is also evidenced in eggs , whereof the sound ones sink , and ...
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... grown adult ( so chance , it seems , enjoin'd ) Did , male and female , propagate their kind . Blackmore . ADULT . n . s . A person above the age of infancy , or grown to some degree of strength ; sometimes full grown : a word used ...
... grown adult ( so chance , it seems , enjoin'd ) Did , male and female , propagate their kind . Blackmore . ADULT . n . s . A person above the age of infancy , or grown to some degree of strength ; sometimes full grown : a word used ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
Popular passages
Page 12 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 124 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 15 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Page 10 - The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure"d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 32 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Page 7 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.