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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... originally blank , in which friends insert pieces as me- morials . Albumen . - 1 . The white of an egg . 2. A substance resembling the white of an egg , and forming a con- stituent part both of the animal fluids and solids . Albino , a ...
... originally blank , in which friends insert pieces as me- morials . Albumen . - 1 . The white of an egg . 2. A substance resembling the white of an egg , and forming a con- stituent part both of the animal fluids and solids . Albino , a ...
Σελίδα 36
... originally con of moistened thread , one placed in the liquid which was en cleansed from impurities ) , wh hung over the edge of the ve passed along the threads , and f their extremities . But the te used to signify any porous bod fying ...
... originally con of moistened thread , one placed in the liquid which was en cleansed from impurities ) , wh hung over the edge of the ve passed along the threads , and f their extremities . But the te used to signify any porous bod fying ...
Σελίδα 66
... originally the space of forty days , during which a vessel coming from a place where an infectious disease prevailed , was pre- hundred . ) 17. Indefinite Numbers . PLURAL , pertaining to any number greater than one . ( L. , plus ...
... originally the space of forty days , during which a vessel coming from a place where an infectious disease prevailed , was pre- hundred . ) 17. Indefinite Numbers . PLURAL , pertaining to any number greater than one . ( L. , plus ...
Σελίδα 67
... originally ten thousand . Numerical , 1. Relating to num- Now used indefinitely to signify a bers ; as , numerical calculations . large number . ( Gr . , μupies [ myrias ] , 2. Denoting numbers ; as , numerical ten thousand ...
... originally ten thousand . Numerical , 1. Relating to num- Now used indefinitely to signify a bers ; as , numerical calculations . large number . ( Gr . , μupies [ myrias ] , 2. Denoting numbers ; as , numerical ten thousand ...
Σελίδα 68
... originally performed by means of pebbles . ) An INTEGER is a whole number . A FRACTION consists of one or more portions of a unit broken into equal ( L. , frango [ fractum ] , to TO COMPUTE is to combine numbers parts . in one's mind in ...
... originally performed by means of pebbles . ) An INTEGER is a whole number . A FRACTION consists of one or more portions of a unit broken into equal ( L. , frango [ fractum ] , to TO COMPUTE is to combine numbers parts . in one's mind in ...
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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.