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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... pass so freely , that objects beyond may be plainly seen . ( L. , trans , through ; and pareo , to appear . ) OPAKE bodies are such as do not permit light to pass . A pane of win- dow glass is transparent , but a board is opake ...
... pass so freely , that objects beyond may be plainly seen . ( L. , trans , through ; and pareo , to appear . ) OPAKE bodies are such as do not permit light to pass . A pane of win- dow glass is transparent , but a board is opake ...
Σελίδα 10
... passes from the substance to my body , than what passes from my body to the substance . On the con- trary , when the ... pass through places of equal mean temperature . FIRE is the element of heat . A Bonfire is a fire made as an ex ...
... passes from the substance to my body , than what passes from my body to the substance . On the con- trary , when the ... pass through places of equal mean temperature . FIRE is the element of heat . A Bonfire is a fire made as an ex ...
Σελίδα 11
... pass off from burning To KINDLE is to cause combustion to begin and get under way by matter in a visible form . nursing the incipient flame . NOTE . When the combustion of wood , o11 , FUEL is any substance that serves etc. , is perfect ...
... pass off from burning To KINDLE is to cause combustion to begin and get under way by matter in a visible form . nursing the incipient flame . NOTE . When the combustion of wood , o11 , FUEL is any substance that serves etc. , is perfect ...
Σελίδα 12
... pass from a liqu ture or chemical composition of a solid state , in consequence substance . escape of calorio . To SINGE is to burn slightly and To Freeze , when spoken of SOUND . 13 or plants , signifies to perish through. 12 ...
... pass from a liqu ture or chemical composition of a solid state , in consequence substance . escape of calorio . To SINGE is to burn slightly and To Freeze , when spoken of SOUND . 13 or plants , signifies to perish through. 12 ...
Σελίδα 14
... passing of tinks or small ringing sounds . the slender end of a switch rapidly ( Freq . of tink . ) through the air . A bullet , in passing And drowsy tinklings lull the distant fold . — Gray . TO CLINK is to make a single small , TO 14 ...
... passing of tinks or small ringing sounds . the slender end of a switch rapidly ( Freq . of tink . ) through the air . A bullet , in passing And drowsy tinklings lull the distant fold . — Gray . TO CLINK is to make a single small , TO 14 ...
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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.