Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary: And Expositor of the English Language. Abridged for the Use of Schools. To which is Annexed, an Abridgment of Walker's Key to the Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names |
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a.not animal beat belonging bird body censure cloth coarse colour errour fåll får fât-mè fåt—mè Fåte fire fish går gåte ground horse i'ah instrument kind liquor loose manner mean ment mêt-pine motion môve musick når ness noise nôr nôt-tube opticks pain pår pass person piece pin-nò plant prep pron publick quick relating s.an s.one s.the act ship soft sorrow sound stone syllable tåb tår thin thing tion tree v. a. pret v. a. to bring v. a. to cover v. a. to draw v. a. to dress v. a. to form v. a. to give v. a. to lay v. a. to put v. a. to strike v. a. to take v. a. to throw v. a.to v. n. to fall v. n. to grow våle vessel violence wind woman wood word
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Page 2 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Page 139 - The Ember days at the four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13.
Page 350 - Span, the space from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger extended.
Page 412 - I see no hope for uniformity on any other basis than this : 1. Every vowel with the accent on it at the end of a syllable is pronounced, as in English, with its first long open sound : thus, Philomela, Orion, Pho'cion, Lucifer have the accented vowels sounded exactly as in the words metre, spider, noble, tutor.
Page 177 - A kind of walk along the floor of a house, into which the doors of the apartments open ; the upper seats in a church ; the scats in a playhouse above the pit, in which the meaner people sit.
Page 280 - A sentence so included in another sentence, as that it may be taken out, without injuring the sense of that which encloses it...
Page 28 - That part of the orbit of a planet in which it is at the point remotest from the sun.
Page 166 - A fugitive, a runaway; that part of a machine which, by being put into a more rapid motion than the other parts, equalizes and regulates the motion of the rest.
Page 222 - Inserted out of the common order, to preserve the equation of time, as the twenty-ninth of February in a leap year is an Intercalary day.
Page 301 - Prime, prime. t>. a. to put in the first powder, to put powder in the pan of a gun ; to lay the first colours on in painting.