A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volum 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... tongue to . Shaksp . 2. A writer on any subject ; a dissertator . Philologers and critical discoursers , who look beyond the obvious exteriors of things , will not be angry at our narrower explorations . Brown . But it seems to me ...
... tongue to . Shaksp . 2. A writer on any subject ; a dissertator . Philologers and critical discoursers , who look beyond the obvious exteriors of things , will not be angry at our narrower explorations . Brown . But it seems to me ...
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... tongue Splits what it speaks : the wild disguise hath almost Antickt us . DISGUISEMENT . n . s . [ from disguise . ] Shaksp . Dress of concealment . Under that disguisement I should find oppor- tunity to reveal myself to the owner of my ...
... tongue Splits what it speaks : the wild disguise hath almost Antickt us . DISGUISEMENT . n . s . [ from disguise . ] Shaksp . Dress of concealment . Under that disguisement I should find oppor- tunity to reveal myself to the owner of my ...
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... tongue , act not upon the taste . DISSOLUBLE . adj . [ dissolubilis , Latin . ] Capable of separation ; having one part separable from another by heat or moisture . Nodules , reposed in cliffs amongst the earth , being hard and not so ...
... tongue , act not upon the taste . DISSOLUBLE . adj . [ dissolubilis , Latin . ] Capable of separation ; having one part separable from another by heat or moisture . Nodules , reposed in cliffs amongst the earth , being hard and not so ...
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... tongue is a dead language , and none can decide with confidence on the harmony or tenance of the numbers of those times . Garth . DISSONANT . adj . [ dissonans , Latin . ] 1. Harsh ; unharmonious . 2 . Dire were the strain , and ...
... tongue is a dead language , and none can decide with confidence on the harmony or tenance of the numbers of those times . Garth . DISSONANT . adj . [ dissonans , Latin . ] 1. Harsh ; unharmonious . 2 . Dire were the strain , and ...
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... Tongue . 6. Not obvious ; not plain . It was one of the first distinctions of a well- bred man to express every thing obscene in mo- dest terms and distant phrases ; while the clown clothed those ideas in plain homely terms that Addison ...
... Tongue . 6. Not obvious ; not plain . It was one of the first distinctions of a well- bred man to express every thing obscene in mo- dest terms and distant phrases ; while the clown clothed those ideas in plain homely terms that Addison ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language, Volum 2,Del 1 Samuel Johnson,Robert Gordon Latham Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
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