An American Dictionary of the English Language: Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of WordsN. and J. White, 1834 - 1011 страници |
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A-BLE acid action affection ancient animal applied arms authority avri Bacon Belonging Ben Jonson bird blood body botany called cause Chaucer church chyle cloth color consisting containing contract Cotgrave court cover crystalography denotes deprive Dict draw dress Dryden earth England fasten figure fish fluid force fowl genus of plants give heat hence heraldry horse Hudibras inclose instrument Johnson kind land language liquor Little manner mark means medicine ment metal Milton mind mineral motion move natural ness one's opposed opposition pain particular person Pertaining piece pret produce quadruped render resembling round Scots law sense separate Shak ship side sound species Spenser substance thing throw tion tree unite utter v. t. Fr v. t. L v. t. Sax vessel wind word
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Страница ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Страница 7 - an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency.
Страница ii - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Страница 26 - The principal subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary object.
Страница 233 - DEMOCRACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation.
Страница 168 - The struggle between rivals for the same trade at the same time ; the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time.
Страница 256 - Any deviation from health in function or structure ; the cause of pain or uneasiness ; distemper ; malady ; sickness ; disorder ; any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound.
Страница 231 - deliberate' (as an adjective) means 'formed, arrived at, or determined upon as a result of careful thought and weighing of considerations; as, a deliberate judgment or plan; carried on coolly and steadily, esp.
Страница 211 - A crystal is now defined to be an inorganic body, which, by the operation of affinity, has assumed the form of a regular solid terminated by a certain number of planes or smooth surfaces.
Страница 97 - An obligation or deed by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a certain day.