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animal belonging bird body British capt censure cloth coarse colour fåll får fåt-mé fåt—mè Fåte fire fish frigate går gåte ground guns horse instrument killed kind lence liquor loose manner måve mean ment mêt-pine motion môve musick når ness noise nôr nôt-tåbe pain pår pass person piece pin-nò plant prep pron publick quick relating resembling ship sloop of war soft sorrow sound stone tåb 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 give v. a. to lay v. a. to mark v. a. to put v. a. to strike v. a. to take v. a. to throw v. a. to turn v. n. to fall v. n. to grow vessel violence wind woman word wounded
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Page 3 - expectation of future improvement. It must, indeed, be confessed, that Mr. Sheridan's Dictionary is greatly superior to every other that preceded it ; and his method of conveying the sound of words, by spelling them as they are pronounced, is highly rational and useful.—But here sincerity obliges me to stop.
Page 3 - The last writer on this subject is Mr. Nares, who, in his Elements of Orthoepy, has shown a clearness of method and an extent of observation which deserve the highest encomiums. His Preface alone proves him an elegant writer, as well as a philosophical observer of Language ; and his Alphabetical Index, referring near
Page 268 - s. a sentence so included in another sentence, as that it may be taken out, without injuring the sense of that which encloses it
Page 277 - s. the art of discovering the temper and foreknowing the fortune by the features of the face ; the cast of the look
Page 179 - gun nil. s. that piece of timber which reaches on either side of the ship from the half-deck to the forecastle Gurge,
Page 21 - s. a man who has equally the use of both his hands; a man who is equally ready to act on either side in party disputes Ambidexterity,
Page 3 - To him succeeded Mr. Sheridan, who not only divided the words into syllables, and placed figures over the vowels, as Dr. Kenrick had done, but, by spelling
Page 28 - in which the sun or a planet, is at the greatest distance possible from the earth in its whole revolution
Page 75 - a certain number of years, at the end of which some great change is supposed to befall the body Climate,
Page 92 - s. a messenger sent in haste Course, kôrse. s. race, career ; ground on which a race is run ; track or line in which a ship sails