A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language, Том 2 |
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acid ancient animals Antiquity aperture applied Architecture belonging body Botany called calyx Coleopterous insects colour common name Conchology consisting corolla Cruciferous plants Crustaceans Decapod denote disease dorsal fin Family fins flowers Foraminifera French fruit genera genus of birds genus of Coleopterous genus of fishes genus of fossil genus of Leguminous genus of Mollusca genus of plants Germ Greek Heraldry herbaceous herbs honour instrument iron Ital kind Lamiacea land last sense last two senses Latin leaf Leguminous plants Linnæus lithos logos manner membrane ment metal mineral Mollusca monos mouth Music Mythology name given natives Obsolete oxide Percida person Pertaining petals phyllon piece polys præ quadrupeds Relating resembling Roman seed sepals shell ship shrubs side species stamens stoma stone subfamily Suborder subshrubs substance taining teeth term thing tion trees tribe Umbelliferous verb vessel word
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Страница 58 - The court-leet, or view offrankpledge, . which is a court of record, held once in the year and not oftener, within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet ; being the king's court granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Страница 432 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Страница 51 - LAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.
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Страница 69 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Страница 372 - That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity...
Страница 51 - The lex non scripta, or unwritten law, includes not only general customs, or the common law, properly so called ; but also the particular customs of certain parts of the kingdom ; and likewise those particular laws that are, by custom, observed only in certain courts and jurisdictions.