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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... . Pleasant the sun , When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb , tree , fruit , and flower , Glistering with dew . - Milton . GLOSS is the reflection of light understood ; as a THE TOPICAL LEXICON. ...
... . Pleasant the sun , When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb , tree , fruit , and flower , Glistering with dew . - Milton . GLOSS is the reflection of light understood ; as a THE TOPICAL LEXICON. ...
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... land of Egypt for the space of three days . Cimmerian darkness is such as was represented by the ancients as perpetually involving the region of Cimmeria , ( now Crimea . ) Sink and disperse , ye specter doubts that roll Cimmerian ...
... land of Egypt for the space of three days . Cimmerian darkness is such as was represented by the ancients as perpetually involving the region of Cimmeria , ( now Crimea . ) Sink and disperse , ye specter doubts that roll Cimmerian ...
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... land or of the sea . 2. Progressive waves in the substance of an elastic medium , as the undulations of the air which pro- duce sound . Undulatory , 1. Moving in the man- ner of waves ; as , an undulatory mo tion . 2. That refers a ...
... land or of the sea . 2. Progressive waves in the substance of an elastic medium , as the undulations of the air which pro- duce sound . Undulatory , 1. Moving in the man- ner of waves ; as , an undulatory mo tion . 2. That refers a ...
Side 40
... Land . MUD is very soft wet earth . MIRE is deep mud . A SWAMP is a piece of wet , spungy land . ( Ger . schwamm , a sponge . ) covered with water , and overgrown A MARSH is a tract of land partially with coarse grass or sedge . ered ...
... Land . MUD is very soft wet earth . MIRE is deep mud . A SWAMP is a piece of wet , spungy land . ( Ger . schwamm , a sponge . ) covered with water , and overgrown A MARSH is a tract of land partially with coarse grass or sedge . ered ...
Side 41
... lands bordering on the lower Mis- sippi are protected by levees against the inunda- tions of the river . TO IRRIGATE is to water land by causing a stream to flow upon it and NOTE 1. - The bore in the river Tsien Tang , spread over it ...
... lands bordering on the lower Mis- sippi are protected by levees against the inunda- tions of the river . TO IRRIGATE is to water land by causing a stream to flow upon it and NOTE 1. - The bore in the river Tsien Tang , spread over it ...
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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.