author: george crabb

English Synonyms Explained: In Alphabetical Order, with Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers

... Impart , compounded of in and part , sig- nifies to give in part to another . Imparting is a species of ... translate , signifies a transferring . Both these terms imply a communication between minds ; but the former may take place ...

A Family Encyclopaedia: Or, An Explanation of Words and Things Connected with All the Arts and Sciences ...

... mania , the product will be Buliminating gold , PUUL . A genus of plants in ... mineral acids , called help . in a state of vapo , as dispersit through ... key to the song PUNDS , PUBLIC PONDS , or STOCKS . The national dela formed into ...

Routledge Revivals: Crabb's English Synonyms (1916): Arranged Alphabetically with Complete Cross References Throughout

... root found in scandal (originally a stumbling-block), and means to climb to something. Climb means to ascend by grasping, and is derived from a Germanic root signifying to grasp, found in clip, cleave, clamber etc. Scale is derived from ...

A Family Encyclopædia, Or, An Explanation of Words and Things Connected with All the Arts and Sciences: Illustrated with Numerous Wood Cuts... : to which is Added, Questions Adapted to the Text, by the Author of Popular Lessons

... REVIEW ( in Military Affairs . ) The dis- is equilateral but not rectangular . play of a body of men before the general , that he may judge of their condition . REVIEW ( in Literature . ) A periodical publication which professes to give ...

A Digest and Index with a Chronological Table of All the Statutes; from Magna Charta to the End of this Last Session

... arrest , therefore an arrest by an executor will not be reckoned but from ... Adam , 3 Y. & J. 1 ; and the act does not , as under the former statutes ... Rose v . Green , 1 Burr . 437 ; and the property of the bank- rupt vests in the ...

Universal Historical Dictionary: Or, Explanation of the Names of Persons and Places in the Departments of Biblical, Political, and Ecclesiastical History, Mythology, Heraldry, Biography, Bibliography, Geography, and Numismatics. Illustrated by Portraits and Medallic Cuts

... orgies . They afterwards settled in Sicily , where they are supposed to have built Syracuse . Herod . 1. 5 , c . 92 ; Thucyd . 1. 6 ; Strab . 1. 8 ; Ovid . Met . 1. 5 , v . 407 . BACCHIDES ( Hist . ) a general who betrayed the town of ...

A Digest and Index, with a Chronological Table of All the Statutes, from Magna Charta to the End of the Last Session

... ib . s . 10 . Prisoners , court of the Lord Mayor and Alder- men may ... Examinations , & c . , justices to certify . - See Central Criminal Court ... 18 , 8. 4 ; 18 G. 2 , c . 20 , s . 14 . Chelsea Hospital . Justice empowered to commit ...

Crabb's English Synonyms

... throng from Anglo-Saxon thringan. to press; and swarm, like the German schwanncn, to fly about, signifies running together in numbers. These terms vary, either in regard to the object or the circumstance: multitude is applicable to any ...

Universal Technological Dictionary

... CROCO'TA ( Ant . ) a woman's garment of saffron colour , of which ... tube simple ; border six - parted ; divisions ovate . - STAM . fila- ments ... tubes occasionally applied to trum- pets and horns , and made moveable , for the purpose ...

Universal Technological Dictionary Or Familiar Explanation of the Terms Used in All Arts and Sciences: Containing Definitions Drawn from the Original Writers : in Two Volumes

... Dollar .. Crusade , New , of 480 Rees car . gr . £ s . d . 21 2 0 16 0 2111 ... general view the first column containing the year of the reign , the king's ... 15 Milree Portugal Mohur , or gold Rupee of Shah Į India .... 23 24 1 15 0 ...

A History of English Law: Or an Attempt to Trace the Rise, Progress, and Successive Changes, of the Common Law; from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

... Law; from the Earliest Period to the Present Time George Crabb. CHAP . lands ... 11 Hen . 7 . c . 20 . Alienations of tenant in tails . Litt . s . 595 . Co ... forgotten laws . The new modelling of the judicature in council , and es ...

Universal Technological Dictionary Or Familiar Explanation of the Terms Used in All Arts and Sciences: Containing Definitions Drawn from the Original Writers : in Two Volumes

... battle . SKULL ( Anat . ) vide Cranium . SKULL - CAP ( Bot . ) the Scutellaria of Linnæus , a perennial . SKUNK ... pass- ing up behind a ship's main - sail or fore - sail . SLACK of a rope ( Mar. ) that part of a rope which hangs loose ...

Universal Technological Dictionary: Or Familiar Explanations of the Terms Used in All Arts and Sciences, Containing Definitions Drawn from the Original Writers, and Illustrated by Plates, Diagrams, Cuts &c

... Diagrams, Cuts &c George Crabb. MESOPY CNI ( Mus . ) σóvel , a name given by the an ... ME / SPILUS ( Bot . ) wiczinos , a thorny tree , the fruit of which is ... CAL . perianth one - leaved . - COR . petals five . - STAM . filaments ...

English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from the Best Writers

... ESTIMATE , ESTEEM . Appraise , appreciate , from apprecio and appre- ciatus , participle of apprecio , compounded of ap ... estimater ; but there are individuals of such an unquestionable worth that they need only be known in order to be ...

The Conveyancer's Assistant; Or, a Series of Proceedings in Conveyancing and Commercial Forms in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of Jones's Attorney's Pocket Book, Adapted to the Present State of the Law, Etc

... Declaration of Trust by Trustees , and Covenant to indem- nify them from having applied Trust Monies in a Pur- chase ... 702 360. Declaration that Money advanced is on Joint Account 704 DECLARATIONS OF TRUSTS . .... 361. Declaration by ...

English Synonyms Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers

... right . Fit , v . Fit . Proper , in Latin proprius , signifies be- longing to a given rule . Right is here the general term ; the others express modes of right . The right and wrong are defined by the written will of God , or are ...

The Most Familiar Synonymes of the English Language: Critically and Etymologically Illustrated: in a Dialogue Between a Preceptor and His Pupils

... wereg , most probably from wall Ger . and vallum Lat . a trench , or rampart ; that is an elevated body serving the purposes of defence . Hedge , in Sax . hegge , Dan . hekke , Low Ger . hagen , comes from an old Teutonic word hag , a ...

English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers

... throng that is per- petually passing in the streets of the city : the swarm is more active than either of the two others ; it is commonly applied to bees which fly together in numbers , but sometimes to human beings , to denote their ...

A Complete Series of Precedents in Conveyancing and of Common and Commercial Forms: In Alphabetical Order ... to which are Added the Latest Real Property Acts ...

... definition and effect of , Appointments , Obs . JUDGMENTS , registry of , how regulated , Memorials , Pref . s . 3 ... SEISIN , definition of , Livery of Seisin , Pref . s . 1 - how given and re- ceived , ib . s . 2 - when necessary or ...

The Conveyancer's Assistant; or, a Series of proceedings in conveyancing and commercial forms in alphabetical order, after the manner of Jones's Attorney's Pocket Book, adapted to the present state of the law, etc

... definition and effect of , Appointments , Obs . JUDGMENTS , registry of , how regulated , Memorials , Pref . s . 3 ... SEISIN , definition of , Livery of Seisin , Pref . s . 1 - how given and re- ceived , ib . s . 2 - when necessary or ...

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