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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... tion with each other , than when they are considered separately . 4. The topical classification of words brings together the different terms derived from the same root . Now , the definition of a Latin or Greek root will frequently shed ...
... tion with each other , than when they are considered separately . 4. The topical classification of words brings together the different terms derived from the same root . Now , the definition of a Latin or Greek root will frequently shed ...
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... tion to the all - important but much - neglected study of words , the object which prompted the preparation of the volume will have been attained . LANCASTER , O. , JAN . 2 , 1860 . JOHN WILLIAMS . EXPLANATION . THE character indicates ...
... tion to the all - important but much - neglected study of words , the object which prompted the preparation of the volume will have been attained . LANCASTER , O. , JAN . 2 , 1860 . JOHN WILLIAMS . EXPLANATION . THE character indicates ...
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... tion of the east which p shoot through the heavens with im- rising of the sun . ( L. , mense velocity . ( Bol ' - i - des , pl . of dawn ) Boxs [ bolis ] , a dart . ) NOTE . - Shooting Stars sometimes consist of small bodies of solid ...
... tion of the east which p shoot through the heavens with im- rising of the sun . ( L. , mense velocity . ( Bol ' - i - des , pl . of dawn ) Boxs [ bolis ] , a dart . ) NOTE . - Shooting Stars sometimes consist of small bodies of solid ...
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... tion which we call warmth . than do any of the undulations on which the colored rays depend . Those who hold the former theory , call the ele- ment of heat caloric . They say that caloric exists in two states ; first , that of latent ...
... tion which we call warmth . than do any of the undulations on which the colored rays depend . Those who hold the former theory , call the ele- ment of heat caloric . They say that caloric exists in two states ; first , that of latent ...
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... tion of fire . NOTE . - Lavas are called igneous rocks from the circumstance of their having been once liquid from heat . Ignite , to set on fire . A lucifer match may be ignited by friction . пrР [ PYR ] , fire . ( Gr . ) Hence ...
... tion of fire . NOTE . - Lavas are called igneous rocks from the circumstance of their having been once liquid from heat . Ignite , to set on fire . A lucifer match may be ignited by friction . пrР [ PYR ] , fire . ( Gr . ) Hence ...
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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.