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 σελίδες |
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... earth , and 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 ...
... earth , and 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 ...
Σελίδα 5
... earth's surface in the case of a or total ; as , the gloom of a dense total eclipse of the sun . forest ; the gloom of midnight . NOTE . The diameter of the umbra can not exceed 200 miles , and may vary from that dia- DARKNESS . 5.
... earth's surface in the case of a or total ; as , the gloom of a dense total eclipse of the sun . forest ; the gloom of midnight . NOTE . The diameter of the umbra can not exceed 200 miles , and may vary from that dia- DARKNESS . 5.
Σελίδα 6
... earth's surface that is partially shaded in the case of a total eclipse of the sun . ( L. pene , almost . ) NOTE . - The diameter of the penumbra may vary slightly , but is usually about 4000 miles . The Attributes of Darkness ...
... earth's surface that is partially shaded in the case of a total eclipse of the sun . ( L. pene , almost . ) NOTE . - The diameter of the penumbra may vary slightly , but is usually about 4000 miles . The Attributes of Darkness ...
Σελίδα 8
... earth , has been converted into coal . Jet is exceedingly black , and breaks with a glossy fracture . Hence , JET - BLACK , denoting the highest possible degree of blackness . VERMILION is a brigh Hence the term vermilion to signify any ...
... earth , has been converted into coal . Jet is exceedingly black , and breaks with a glossy fracture . Hence , JET - BLACK , denoting the highest possible degree of blackness . VERMILION is a brigh Hence the term vermilion to signify any ...
Σελίδα 10
... earth's surface pass through places of equal mean temperature . FIRE is the element of heat . A Bonfire is a fire made as an ex- pression of public joy . ( Fr. , bon , good . ) A Balefire is a signal fire . Sweet Teviot , on thy silver ...
... earth's surface pass through places of equal mean temperature . FIRE is the element of heat . A Bonfire is a fire made as an ex- pression of public joy . ( Fr. , bon , good . ) A Balefire is a signal fire . Sweet Teviot , on thy silver ...
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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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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 140 - But at the end of the third or the beginning of the fourth century the...
Σελίδα 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
Σελίδα 313 - Highness. ib. or ibid, (ibidem) In the same place. id. (idem) The same.
Σελίδα 279 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.