A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words ... by the Rev. H.J. Todd
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... my black and deep desires ! Shakspeare Macbeth . Did Shadrach's real my glowing breast inspire , Stars , hide your fires ! 5. Torture by burning . • To weary tortures , and rejoice in fire ? 6. The punishment of the damned . Granville ...
A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words ... by the Rev. H.J. Todd
... your lady's pillow , fasten it well with pins . Swift . PILO'SITY . n . s ... PIMP . n . s . pinge , Fr. Skinner . ] One who pro- vides gratifications for ... language . A fir tree , in a vain spiteful humour , was mightily upon the pin ...
A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words ... by the Rev. H.J. Todd
... my black and deep desires ! Shakspeare Macbeth . Did Shadrach's real my glowing breast inspire , Stars , hide your fires ! 5. Torture by burning . • To weary tortures , and rejoice in fire ? 6. The punishment of the damned . Granville ...
A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words ... by the Rev. H.J. Todd
... bring aff a crow at the bar . L'Estrange . The best way to avoid this imputation , and to bring off the credit of ... men , especially young gentlemen , should have something more in him than Latin . Locke . They frequently conversed with ...
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: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... cheat others . Dryden . There are people who find that the most effectual ... left out , and so turned cheater , " as Lord Coke in his Charge at Norwich ... dead . Bacon . I hate when vice can bolt her arguments , And virtue has no tongue ...
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: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... not her quickening power with surfeitings ; Mar not her sense with sensuality . SU ́RFEITWATER . n . s . [ surfeit and water . ] Water that cures surfeits . Davies . A little cold distilled poppywater , which is the true surfeit- water ...
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: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... A fire may come , and it may be Bury'd , my friend , as far from thee . 4. Flame ; light ; lustre . Let not night see my black and deep desires ! Shakspeare Macbeth . 5. Torture by burning . Stars , hide your fires ! Did Shadrach's zeal my ...
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
... Sax . ] To force up something from the stomach . It is commonly written reach . RETCHLESS , adj . [ sometimes written wretchless , properly reckless . ] See RECK- LESS . ] Careless ... notes She varies , and of past imprisonment Sweetly ...
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
... smite every house of the people with blindness . Zechariah . Shakesp . 2 ... void ; and , in their fall , Were blindly gather d in this goodly ball . Dryden . BLINDMAN'S BUFF ... buff to grope his way , In equal fear of night and day . Hudibras ...
A Dictionary of the English Language: in Wich the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers ... By Samuel Johnson. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.]
... words , in fome men's opinion , vitiates baptifin . Ayliffe's Parergon ... example of their leaders . Swift . ( 2. ) When vitious language contends to be high ... VIVACIOUS . adj . [ vivax , Latin . ] Spritely gay ; active ; lively . ( 1 ...
A Dictionary of the English Language: in Wich the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers ... By Samuel Johnson. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.]
... better , Sax . Having good qualities in a greater degree than fomething else . See GOOD . He has a horfe better than the Neapolitan's ; a better bad ha- bit of frowning than the count Palatine . Shakefp . Merc . of Ven . I have feen ...
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. By Samuel Johnson. In Two Volumes. ...
... monster . ] Milt . Pope's Odyssey . fide . Strange animal of the fea . Lam ... rove . ] A pirate . SE'ARUFF . n . f . [ Jea and ruff ; orphus , Lat . ] A ... ( 2. ) ' Till thou can't rail the feal from off my bond , Thou but offend'ft thy ...
Johnson's dictionary of the English language, in miniature. Johnson's English dictionary in miniature; with the addition of several thousand words, and the pronunciation, on the basis of Walker. To which is subjoined, a concise heathen mythology, and numerous other useful tables ... Adapted for the use of schools. Eighth edition. A
... jokes Drom'edary , s . a swift kind of camel Dro'mo , s . a swift sailing vessel ; a fish Drone , s . the bee which ... Drow'sily , ad . sleepily , heavily , lazily , idly Drow'siness , s . sleepiness , idleness Drow'sy , a . sleepy ...
A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals: Newly Revised and Corrected, to which is Prefixed Johnson's Grammar of the English Language and Added a Glossary of Scottish Words and Phrases, which Occur in the Romances and Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
... Walter Scott Johnson. * To REBU / RY . v . a . To inter again . Ashm . RE / BUS . s . [ rébus , Fr. ] A word ... RECA'LL . s . [ from the verb . ] act or power of calling back . Hooker . Revocation ; Dry den . To RECA'NT . v . a ...
A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals Explained in Their Different Meanings: Abstracted from the Folio Edition, by the Author ... to which is Prefixed a Grammar of the English Language
... Language Johnson. Milton . between hills . DINING - ROOM . s . [ dine and room . ] The principal apartment of the houfe . Taylor . DINNER . . [ diner . Fr. ] The chief meal the meal caten about the middle of the day . Taylor DINNER TIME ...
A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals: Explained in Their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in Whose Works They are Found ... Abridged from the Rev. H.J. Todd's Corrected and Enlarged Quarto Edition
... Shaksp . To infatuate ; to make foolish . Calamy . To cheat : as , to fool ... Shaksp . FOO / LERY . n . s . Habitual folly . Shakspeare . An act of folly ... sheet of paper ; as pot , foolscap , & c . pot being the smallest , and ...
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, Explained in Their Different Meanings, ... Abstracted from the Folio Edition, by the Author, Samuel Johnson, A.M. To which is Prefixed, A Grammar of the English Language. In Two Volumes. ...
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: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... CHEAT . v . a . [ of uncertain derivation ; pro- bably from acheter , Fr. to ... left out , and so turned cheater , " as Lord Coke in his Charge at Norwich ... dead . I hate when vice can bolt her arguments , And virtue has no tongue to ...
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: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... bring in . To reduce . Send over into that realm such a strong power of men , as should perforce bring in all that rebel- lious rout , and loose people . Spenser on Ireland . 17. To bring in . To afford gain . The sole measure of all ...
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: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... meaning the last touch or polish of the composition . See FINISHING . ] FINISHER . n ... beds the finny fish repair . Dryden , Ovid . While black with storms the ... burning . Dryden . A little fire is quickly trodden out , Which , FIN FIN.
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: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... Language, and an English Grammar Samuel Johnson Henry John Todd. All the churches of ... GOBLIN . † n . s . [ French , gobelin , which Spenser has once retained ... 5. p . 556. Du Cange represents the goblin as delight- ing more in mockery ...
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: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
... power is called solution . Barrow on the Power of the Keys . SOLUTIVE . adj ... me ; for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me . SOME . adj . [ rom , rum ... 5. It is added to a number , to show that the number is uncertain and ...
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
... Best Writers. To which are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an ... hell . 2. Three verses rhyming together : as , Dryden . Swift . Waller was ... Drider's En . In polishing glafs with putty , or tripoly , it is not to be ima ...
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
... up of a fortuneteller . L'Eftrange , Long ago a fortuneteller Exactly faid what now befell her . FORTY . adj . [ Feopenzig , Saxon . ] times ten . Swift . Four On fair ground I could beat forty of them . Shakef . He that upon levity ...
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
... adjective ] 1. Utmost point ; highest degree of any thing . Thither by harpy - footed furies hal'd , Hooker , b . v . f . 9 . At certain revolutions , all the damn'd Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes ...
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
... lulily for her , and deferves her . 11 . Southerne . LU'STINESS . . f . [ from lufty . ] Stoutnefs ; fturdinefs ; ftrength ; vigour of body . Fresh Clarion being ready dight , He with good fpeed began to take his flight Over the fields ...
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