The Readable Dictionary: Or, Topical and Synonymic Lexicon: Containing Several Thousands of the More Useful Terms of the English Language, Classified by Subjects, and Arranged According to Their Affinities of Meaning; with Accompanying Etymologies, Definitions, and Illustrations. To which are Added I. Lists of Foreign Terms ... II. A Table of the Common Abbreviations. III. An Alphabetical List of Latin and Greek Roots, with DerivativesM.C. Lilley, 1860 - 360 sider |
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... existence of black bile in the system ( xon [ chole ] , bile . GRAY is a mixture of white and black , as when white and black hairs are mingled on the human head . GRIZZLY , Somewhat gray , as the grizzly bear . A SPOT is a portion of a ...
... existence of black bile in the system ( xon [ chole ] , bile . GRAY is a mixture of white and black , as when white and black hairs are mingled on the human head . GRIZZLY , Somewhat gray , as the grizzly bear . A SPOT is a portion of a ...
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... existence . The works of many Extant , lit. , standing forth . Hence , ancient authors are no longer extant . ( ex , forth . ) Substance , that which stands un- der properties and supports them . Gold is a substance , because it stands ...
... existence . The works of many Extant , lit. , standing forth . Hence , ancient authors are no longer extant . ( ex , forth . ) Substance , that which stands un- der properties and supports them . Gold is a substance , because it stands ...
Side 79
... existence of a person or thing in a specified place . sence . Ab- 2. To Put . To PUT is to move an object to a place where it is to remain . TO PLACE is to put in some particu- lar part of space . To SET is to place in a standing ...
... existence of a person or thing in a specified place . sence . Ab- 2. To Put . To PUT is to move an object to a place where it is to remain . TO PLACE is to put in some particu- lar part of space . To SET is to place in a standing ...
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... existence . The Lord shall vexpos [ necros ] , dead . ) See Art . Witch- endure forever . ( L. , durus , hard , craft . because things made of hard sub- Chiromancy , the pretended art of stances are the most lasting . ) telling fortunes ...
... existence . The Lord shall vexpos [ necros ] , dead . ) See Art . Witch- endure forever . ( L. , durus , hard , craft . because things made of hard sub- Chiromancy , the pretended art of stances are the most lasting . ) telling fortunes ...
Side 87
... existence . 2. Occupying but a short time in its delivery ; as , a brief discourse . • Brevity , 1. Shortness of duration . 2. Conciseness ; as , brevity is the soul of wit . 11. To End . AGED , that has lived long ; as , an aged man ...
... existence . 2. Occupying but a short time in its delivery ; as , a brief discourse . • Brevity , 1. Shortness of duration . 2. Conciseness ; as , brevity is the soul of wit . 11. To End . AGED , that has lived long ; as , an aged man ...
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The Readable Dictionary: Or, Topical and Synonymic Lexicon ... Classified by ... John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
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action affect ancient angle animals applied blood body bones called cause church chyle chyme color consists court danger Decemviri degree discourse disease Dry Measure ductile duty earth evil existence facio feeling feet figure fluid force George Stephenson gether Greek alphabet heat Hence horse human human voice idea inflammation kind Lacteal LEGO light ligo liquid manner marriage matter measure medicine membrane ment metals mind moon moral motion move nature ness NOTE 2.-The NOTE.-A NOTE.-The object one's one's-self oviparous oxygen pain particles pass PELLO Periosteum person pertaining piece plane plant portion præ prefix signifying principle privative pron purpose quadrupeds resembling sense skin solid sound speak spirit substance sudden surface tain taste term thing tion tween utter vapor weight wind word
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Side 52 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Side 71 - TABLE. 16 Drams (dr.) make 1 Ounce, oz. 16 Ounces " 1 Pound, Ib. 25 Pounds " 1 Quarter, qr. 4 Quarters " 1 Hundred Weight, cwt. 20 Hundred Weight
Side 226 - And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Side 286 - AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND. I- 1 HE MINSTRELS (A) were an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang to the harp verses composed by themselves, or others...
Side 238 - Stewart. Or, imagination may be defined as the will working on the materials of memory ; not satisfied with following the order prescribed by nature, or suggested by accident, it selects the parts of different conceptions, or objects of memory, to form a whole more pleasing, more terrible, or more awful, than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature.
Side 140 - But at the end of the third or the beginning of the fourth century the...
Side 71 - TABLE. 20 grains (gr.) make 1 scruple, sc. or 9. 3 scruples " 1 dram, dr. or 3. .8 drams " 1 ounce, oz. or §. 12 ounces
Side 313 - Highness. ib. or ibid, (ibidem) In the same place. id. (idem) The same.
Side 279 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.