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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... receive the degree of attention which its importance demands : nor is there more than here and there a person who , at any period of his life , has endeavored to improve his acquaintance with the signification of words by the use of a ...
... receive the degree of attention which its importance demands : nor is there more than here and there a person who , at any period of his life , has endeavored to improve his acquaintance with the signification of words by the use of a ...
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... received by scientific men of the present day . NOTE 2. - Light is propagated through space in right lines , at the rate of 192,000 miles per second . To SHINE is either to emit inherent light , as the sun ; or to reflect bor- rowed ...
... received by scientific men of the present day . NOTE 2. - Light is propagated through space in right lines , at the rate of 192,000 miles per second . To SHINE is either to emit inherent light , as the sun ; or to reflect bor- rowed ...
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... receives . WARM , moderately heated . Warmth , the sensation caused by heat . Hor , highly heated . TEPID , moderately warm ; as , a tepid bath . TEMPERATE , free from the extremes of heat and cold ; as a temperate cli- mate . FERVEO ...
... receives . WARM , moderately heated . Warmth , the sensation caused by heat . Hor , highly heated . TEPID , moderately warm ; as , a tepid bath . TEMPERATE , free from the extremes of heat and cold ; as a temperate cli- mate . FERVEO ...
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... received their execra- tions the next . - Mansfield . One self - approving hour whole years outweighs , Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas . - Pope . HURRA ! or HURRAH ! is a shout of exultation or encouragement . A YELL is a loud and ...
... received their execra- tions the next . - Mansfield . One self - approving hour whole years outweighs , Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas . - Pope . HURRA ! or HURRAH ! is a shout of exultation or encouragement . A YELL is a loud and ...
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... received . ( re , back . ) Confound , lit. , to pour together . Hence , to mix together in the mind , so as to be unable to separate ideas that are in themselves distinct . Profuse , lit. , poured forth . Hence , too free in spending or ...
... received . ( re , back . ) Confound , lit. , to pour together . Hence , to mix together in the mind , so as to be unable to separate ideas that are in themselves distinct . Profuse , lit. , poured forth . Hence , too free in spending or ...
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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.