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... kind of bay or hollow in the apartment . Hence , BIGHT , * an old word for bay ; as the Bight of Benin , the Bight ... kind of battle- axe with a hooked point ; a kind of cleaver . BILL , a written paper of any kind , as an account of ...
... kind of bay or hollow in the apartment . Hence , BIGHT , * an old word for bay ; as the Bight of Benin , the Bight ... kind of battle- axe with a hooked point ; a kind of cleaver . BILL , a written paper of any kind , as an account of ...
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... KIND ( fond of one's kind or kin ) , congenial , benevolent . Com- pare HUMANE , that is , becoming a human being . KINE , for cowen , the old plural of cows ; as SWINE for sowen . KIRK is the Scottish form of the word CHURCH . LAGGARD ...
... KIND ( fond of one's kind or kin ) , congenial , benevolent . Com- pare HUMANE , that is , becoming a human being . KINE , for cowen , the old plural of cows ; as SWINE for sowen . KIRK is the Scottish form of the word CHURCH . LAGGARD ...
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... kind of sea - weed . Otherwise . Alias . Alibi . Elsewhere . Alma Mater . A benign mother ; a term applied to the university where one was educated . Ana , Gr . A word used in the prescriptions of physicians , denoting in like quantity ...
... kind of sea - weed . Otherwise . Alias . Alibi . Elsewhere . Alma Mater . A benign mother ; a term applied to the university where one was educated . Ana , Gr . A word used in the prescriptions of physicians , denoting in like quantity ...
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... kind of gum , very useful in medicine , but of an offensive smell . Asbes'tine , a . of an incombustible quality . Asbestos , s . a kind of fossil which may be split into threads and filaments , and which cannot be consumed by fire ...
... kind of gum , very useful in medicine , but of an offensive smell . Asbes'tine , a . of an incombustible quality . Asbestos , s . a kind of fossil which may be split into threads and filaments , and which cannot be consumed by fire ...
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... kind of fish with barbs . Barber , s . one whose trade is to shave . Bar berry , s . the name of a prickly shrub . Bard , s . a minstrel ; a poet . Bard'ic , a . relating to the bards or poets . Bare , a . naked , unadorned : . to strip ...
... kind of fish with barbs . Barber , s . one whose trade is to shave . Bar berry , s . the name of a prickly shrub . Bard , s . a minstrel ; a poet . Bard'ic , a . relating to the bards or poets . Bare , a . naked , unadorned : . to strip ...
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Página xxxviii - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
Página xxxviii - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página xvi - Most of the writers of English grammar have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than they are written; and seem not sufficiently to have considered, that, of English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation; one cursory and colloquial; the other, regular and solemn.
Página xxxvii - Of these reformers some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model or standard which is changing while they apply it.
Página xvi - ... when I published the Plan for my Dictionary, Lord Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state ; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one, the best speaker in the House of Lords, the other, the best speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely.
Página 66 - Di"git, a, three quarters of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon ; any number under ten.
Página 355 - CHIMERA ; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bcllerophon.
Página 351 - Artemis in the grotto when she and her nymphs were cooling themselves with water and bathing, was changed by her into a stag, and torn to pieces by his own hounds. 1 Anabasis, v., 3, 6-13. " Chaste and holy " calls Homer the form of Artemis, and just as she herself was so had her priestesses to be.
Página xvi - The solemn pronunciation, though by no means immutable and permanent, is yet always less remote from the orthography, and less liable to capricious innovation. They have, however, generally formed their tables according to the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse ; and, concluding that the whole nation combines to vitiate language in one manner, have often established the jargon of the lowest of the people as the model of speech. For pronunciation the best general rule is,...
Página xvi - English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation, one cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn. The cursory pronunciation is always vague and uncertain, being made different in different mouths by negligence, unskilfulness, or affectation.