A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language: With Pronouncing Vocabularies of Classical and Scripture Proper NamesChauncey Goodrich, 1831 - 400 sider |
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A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English ... Joseph Emerson Worcester Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1831 |
Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language ... Joseph Emerson Worcester Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1844 |
A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English ... Joseph Emerson Worcester Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1831 |
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a-ble animal Ba'al belonging bird body bûll bür capable chyle cloth color Dictionary disease fish fruit ful-ly ful-ness heraldry horse i-cal i-cal-ly i-ty instrument kind Kirjath liquor manner medicine ment môve ness noise nör person pertaining piece plant quick relating resembling S. W. J. E. F. Ja ship şi-a sïr soft sort sound species stone substance syllable teş thing ti-a tion tree v. a. imp v. a. to beat v. a. to bring v. a. to cover v. a. to form v. a. to give v. a. to place v. a. to put v. a. to take v. n. to fall v. n. to grow v. n. to move v. n. to play versed vessel W. J. F. Ja W. P. J. F. Ja wind woman wood words
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Side xx - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Side xviii - Verbs of one syllable, ending with a single consonant, preceded by a single, vowel (as plan), and verbs of two or more syllables, ending in the same manner and having the accent on the last syllable...
Side 25 - The azimuth of the sun, or of a star, is an arch between the meridian of the place and...
Side xiv - ... (which he has not heard generally used?) " authority," (which some previous orthoepist has not recommended?) "or analogy," (as derived from orthography?) He most sensibly concludes that "it would be unreasonable for him to make a conformity to his own taste, or to the result of his own limited observation, a law to those who may differ from him, and yet agree with perhaps the more common usage.
Side 168 - Inserted out of the common order, to preserve the equation of time, as the twenty-ninth of February in a leap year is an Intercalary day.
Side 54 - A curve line continued till it ends where it began, having all pans equally distant from a common centre ; the space included in a circular line ; a round body, an orb ; compass...
Side xiv - Smart, but frequently gives several different pronunciations and says that "the reader will feel perfectly authorized" by Mr. Worcester? " to adopt such a form as he may choose." "The compiler" he adds, "has not intended in any case, to give his own sanction" to which, however, he seems to attribute considerable weight, " to a form which is not supported by usage...
Side 170 - Interregnum, *. the time in which a throne is vacant between the death of one prince and the accession of another; vacancy of the throne ItitcnviiMi', i.
Side 13 - The article .'/ must be used before all words beginning with a consonant, and before the vowel u when long : and the article An must be used before all words beginning with a vowel, except long u ; before words beginning with h mute, as, an hour, an heir, &c.
Side 9 - Parts of a number, which will never make up the number exactly ; as 3 is an aliquant of 10, thrice 3 being 9, four times 3 making 12.