Barat's Pronouncing, Etymological, and Pictorial Dictionary of the English and of the Bengali Language: English to English and Bengali, Bengali to Bengali and English, Volum 1T. N. Barat, 1882 |
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Side 96 - A nt onoma'sia, in rhetoric, the use of the name of some office, dignity, profession, science, or trade instead of the true name of the person, as when...
Side 355 - COLURES, in astronomy and geography, two great circles, supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pass through the solstitial and equinoctial points ofthe ecliptic.
Side 296 - The lines do not run in a uniform direction from the left to the right, or from the right to the left...
Side 1 - A, a, or aa, in medical prescriptions, denote ana, or equal parts of each . A, in music, is the nominal of the sixth note in the diatonic scale; in algebra it denotes a known quantity ; in logic, an universal affirmative proposition ; in heraldry, the dexter chief, or chief point in an escutcheon ; and it IB the first of the dominical letters in the calendar.
Side 103 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Side 68 - A term used in devotions, by which, at the end of a prayer, we mean, so be it; at the end of a creed, so it is.
Side 73 - To entertain with tranquillity; to fill with thoughts that engage the mind, without distracting it. To divert implies something more lively, and to please, something more important. It is therefore frequently taken in a sense bordering on contempt.
Side 312 - Next, as to the courts military. The only court of this kind known to, and established by, the permanent laws of the land, is the court of chivalry, formerly held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England jointly, but since the attainder of Stafford, duke of Buckingham, under Henry VIII., and the consequent extinguishment of the office of lord high constable, it hath usually, with respect to civil matters, been held before the earl marshal only.(s) This court, by statute 13 Ric.
Side 239 - Bur, bur, n, the prickly seed-case or head of certain plants, which sticks to clothes like a. flock of wool. [Fr. bourre, flocks of wool ; It. borra, any kind of stuffing ; low L. burra, a flock of \vool.J ImrflfKilc, bur'dok, n.
Side 529 - Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.