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accent ance animal Belonging bird body bring called cause censure chyle cicatrix cloth colour Consisting consonants corrupt costiveness degree dignity diphthong disease dress enclose fall får Fate favour fire fish flower force fruit går gåte ground hand herb hinder horse instrument interj join kind lence letters liquor manner mark marriage mean measure medicine ment mind motion mouth môve musick når nature ness noise nỗr nôt Obsolete one's opticks pain pass passion perly person piece plant plural produce pron pronounce publick quantity quick racter Relating resembling sense sharp ship sion soft sorrow sound species stone syllable tåbe taining thing tion tree v. a. Pret v. a. To cover v. a. To give v. a. To put v. n. To grow vessel violence vowels woman word
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Page 336 - The prominence on the face, which is the organ of scent and the emunctory of the brain ; scent, sagacity.
Page 165 - 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 x - As emphasis evidently points out the most significant word in a sentence ; so, where other reasons do not forbid, the accent always dwells with greatest force on that part of the word which, from its importance, the hearer has always the greatest occasion to observe : and this is necessarily the root or body of the word.
Page 316 - a thousand years ;" generally employed to denote the thousand years, during which, according to an ancient tradition in the church, grounded on some doubtful texts in the Apocalypse and other scriptures, our blessed Saviour shall reign with the faithful upon earth after the first resurrection, before the final completion of beatitude. Though there...
Page 43 - . 182. That part of the human body which reaches from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels ; the womb...
Page v - A vowel is a simple sound formed by a continued effusion of the breath, and a certain conformation of the mouth, without any alteration...
Page 12 - -g4ze', va To strike with amazement. AGE, 4je, s. Any period of time attributed to something as the whole, or part of its duration...
Page 171 - A little circle whose centre is in the circumference of a greater, or a small orb dependant on a greater, as the moon on the earth.
Page 40 - ... the ends of which the scales are suspended ; a cylindrical piece of wood belonging to the loom, on which the web is gradually rolled as it is wove ; the ray of light emitted from some luminous body.
Page 128 - ... obliquity; variation from a fixed point; in navigation, the variation of the needle from the true meridian of any place to the East or West ; in astronomy, the declination of a star, we call its shortest distance from the equator.