A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and Meaning, Volume 1C. Dilly, 1790 - English language |
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accent animal antepenult Belonging body cafe caufe cauſe cenfure clofe cloſe colour Confifting confonant defign defire digraph diphthong drefs Engliſh fame fecond fenfe fentence feparate fettled fhall fhip fhort fhould fhún fide filk fimple fingle fion firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpecies fpeech fpirit ftand ftate ftone ftop ftrike fubftance fuch fudden fupply fupport fwelling fyllable gåte give ground herb himſelf horfe houfe houſe inclofe inftrument interfect kål kind laft lefs mafs manner mark meaſure ment mind neceffary nefs noife obfcure obferved oppofed oppofition paff paffage paffion pafs paufe perfon plant pleafing pleaſure poffeffion pofition prefent pret preter preterite pronounced pronunciation publick purpoſe raiſe reafon refembling reft reprefent rife ſmall ſtate theſe thing thofe thoſe tion tongue ufed uſed v. a. To put veffel verfe vowel whofe words Το
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Page 15 - Is said to be hide-bound when his skin sticks so hard to his ribs and back, that you cannot with your hand pull up or loosen the one from the other ; in trees, being in the state in which the bark Kill not give way to the growth ; harsh, unti actable.
Page xciii - Englishmen as happened to be there, and reading regularly with some of the principal actors, arrived even at an accuracy of pronunciation, and had not the least tincture of the Scottish intonation.
Page 90 - To insert a scion or branch of one tree into the stock of another ; to propagate by insertion or inoculation ; to insert into a place or body to which it did not originally belong; to join to jo nothe one thing so as to receive support from another. [Hf Nothing can be clearer than that Graff...
Page 64 - Any lands, or other profits, that fall to a lord within his manor by forfeiture, or the death of his tenant, dying without heir general or especial. C3...
Page vi - The mutes are those consonants, whose sounds cannot be protracted. The semi-vowels, such whose sounds can be continued at pleasure, partaking of the nature of vowels, from which they derive their name. The mutes may be subdivided into pure and impure, The pure are those whose sounds cannot be at all prolonged : they are k, p, t.
Page 7 - An animal having the body of a mouse, and the wings of a bird, not with feathers, but with a sort of skin which is extended. It brings forth its young as mice do, and suckles them.