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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Σελίδα 9
... Plants may be blanched by excluding the light from them while growing . The cheeks may be blanched by a sudden emotion of terror . OF of Heat . tion which we call warmth . than do any of the undulations on which the colored rays depend ...
... Plants may be blanched by excluding the light from them while growing . The cheeks may be blanched by a sudden emotion of terror . OF of Heat . tion which we call warmth . than do any of the undulations on which the colored rays depend ...
Σελίδα 12
... to 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 ...
... to 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 13
... plants , signifies to perish through BLEAK , exposed by situation to intense cold . cold winds . FRIGEO , to freeze . ( L. ) Hence , Frigid , very cold ; as , the frigid zone . GELU , frost . ( L. ) Hence , 6. The Attributes of Cold ...
... plants , signifies to perish through BLEAK , exposed by situation to intense cold . cold winds . FRIGEO , to freeze . ( L. ) Hence , Frigid , very cold ; as , the frigid zone . GELU , frost . ( L. ) Hence , 6. The Attributes of Cold ...
Σελίδα 20
... plants and animals . Garlic and goats emit a rank odor . A FETOR , STENCH , or STINK is a The. A Tart is a pie made of sour fruit . BRISK OF LIVELY , having the sharp and pleasant taste of an effervescing liquor . VAPID or FLAT , having ...
... plants and animals . Garlic and goats emit a rank odor . A FETOR , STENCH , or STINK is a The. A Tart is a pie made of sour fruit . BRISK OF LIVELY , having the sharp and pleasant taste of an effervescing liquor . VAPID or FLAT , having ...
Σελίδα 28
... plant covered with prickles . A GOAD is a pointed instrument ness either of a point or of an edge . used in driving oxen . NOTE . The term dull is metaphorically ap- To Goad is , 1. To drive with a plied to light , sound , the senses ...
... plant covered with prickles . A GOAD is a pointed instrument ness either of a point or of an edge . used in driving oxen . NOTE . The term dull is metaphorically ap- To Goad is , 1. To drive with a plied to light , sound , the senses ...
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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.