Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language

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J.D. Bemis, 1824 - English language - 416 pages
 

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Page 2 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Page 137 - 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 62 - A figure in poetry, by which a short syllable after a complete foot is made long ; a pause in verse.
Page 19 - ALLAY, 11-1V. s. 329. The metal of a baser kind mixed in coins, to harden them, that they may wearies?; any thing which, being added, abates the predominant qualities of that with which it is mingled. ALLAYER, il-laur.
Page 54 - A loud noise; a hollow iron ball, or shell, filled with gunpowder, and furnished with a vent for a fusee, or wooden tube, filled with combustible matter , to be thrown out from a mortar.
Page 276 - A sentence so included in another sentence, as that it may be taken out, without injuring the sense of that which encloses it...
Page 67 - A blank paper, a paper to be filled up with such conditions as the person to whom it is sent thinks proper.
Page 164 - 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 256 - MOVE, raoov. va 164. To put out of one place into another, to 'put in motion ; to...
Page 40 - The line, real or imaginary, that passes through any thing, on which it may revolve. AXLE, dk'sl.

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