An American Dictionary of the English Language: Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of WordsHarper, 1846 - 1079 ページ |
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A-BLE acid action adorn affection ancient animal applied authority avri Bacon Belonging Ben Jonson blood body botany called cause Chaucer church chyle cloth color consisting containing contract Cotgrave court cover Coze crystalography denotes deprive Dict draw dress Dryden earth fasten figure fish fluid force fowl genus of plants give heat hence heraldry horse Hudibras inclose instrument Johnson kind land language liquor Little manner means medicine ment metal Milton mind mineral motion move natural ness one's opposed opposition pain particular person Pertaining piece pret produce quadruped render resembling round Scots law sense separate Shak ship side sound species Spenser substance tending thing throw tion tree unite utter v. t. Fr v. t. L v. t. Sax vessel wind word
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ii ページ - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
26 ページ - a figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances.
177 ページ - The term is given also to a meeting of sovereign princes which is held for the like purpose. The delegates from the Assemblies of the British colonies who met at New York 7th October, 1765, to consider their grievances, called their assemblage a Congress.
166 ページ - The struggle between rivals for the same trade at the same time ; the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time.
27 ページ - Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the begin-ning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals...
197 ページ - To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged for that which is original or genuine.
254 ページ - Any deviation from health in function or structure ; the cause of pain or uneasiness ; distemper ; malady ; sickness ; disorder ; any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound.
142 ページ - ... of ascertaining the true periods or years when past events or transactions took place, and arranging them in their proper order according to their dates.
iii ページ - I am at a loss to determine ; and unless I can give a better plea than any other letter in the alphabet for being doubled in this situation, I must in the style of Lucían, in his trial of the letter t, declare for an expulsion.
286 ページ - An ambassador is a minister of the highest rank, employed by one prince or state at the court of another, to manage the concerns of his own prince or state, and representing the dignity and power of his sovereign.