The student's English dictionary, the pronunciation adapted to the best modern usage by R. Cull1865 |
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... render it too costly to admit of its being adopted generally in English seminaries . The leading object of this Dictionary is to place the English language as far as possible upon a sound etymological basis , with the view of fixing the ...
... render it too costly to admit of its being adopted generally in English seminaries . The leading object of this Dictionary is to place the English language as far as possible upon a sound etymological basis , with the view of fixing the ...
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... render an ac count to ; to give or render reasons to or for ; to explain , when followed by the prep . for . Accountability , ak - kount'a - bil'li - ti , n . State of being accountable ; liability ; responsibility . Accountable , ak ...
... render an ac count to ; to give or render reasons to or for ; to explain , when followed by the prep . for . Accountability , ak - kount'a - bil'li - ti , n . State of being accountable ; liability ; responsibility . Accountable , ak ...
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... render it valuable as a scavenger , by its clearing the streets of all kinds of offal , a fine is imposed upon any one killing an adjutant . Adjutor , ad - jat'or , n . [ L. ] A helper . Adm . Abbreviation of admiral . Admeasurement ...
... render it valuable as a scavenger , by its clearing the streets of all kinds of offal , a fine is imposed upon any one killing an adjutant . Adjutor , ad - jat'or , n . [ L. ] A helper . Adm . Abbreviation of admiral . Admeasurement ...
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... render conformable to the Eng- lish idiom . Angling , ang'gl - ing , ppr . Fishing with an angle . n . A fishing with a rod and line . Anglo - Saxon , ang - glo - saks'on , n . An English Saxon ; the language of the English Saxons . a ...
... render conformable to the Eng- lish idiom . Angling , ang'gl - ing , ppr . Fishing with an angle . n . A fishing with a rod and line . Anglo - Saxon , ang - glo - saks'on , n . An English Saxon ; the language of the English Saxons . a ...
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... rendered incapable of inheriting . Attainting , at - tänt'ing , ppr . Staining ; corrupting ; disgracing ; depriving of in ... render less viscid ; to lessen ; to diminish ; to make small or slender . Attenuate , at - ten'a - at , a ...
... rendered incapable of inheriting . Attainting , at - tänt'ing , ppr . Staining ; corrupting ; disgracing ; depriving of in ... render less viscid ; to lessen ; to diminish ; to make small or slender . Attenuate , at - ten'a - at , a ...
Common terms and phrases
adorn allied to Gr animal bear beat bend bind body bring burn cause Celt close cloth coagulated colour containing corrupt costive cover deceive deprive dimin DISCOMMENDATION draw dress earth equal Etymol excite facio fall fasten favour figure fixed flow flowers fluid force Fris furnish Gael give Goth grow heat hold hollow honour horse Icel inclose instrument kind lego lence light liquor low L manner mark marriage ment metal mind motion move ness noise old Fr old G one's ornament pain pass person Pertaining piece plant pret probably allied produce pron quadruped Quality reciprocal pronoun Relating render resembling root round separate shine ship sion sound spirit strike substance swell syllable taining thing throw tion tree turn unite utter vessel violent words
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Page 240 - An exchange is a mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. The word "exchange...
Page iii - It is well known in what relation these two stand to one another in the English tongue; the former supplying in far larger proportion the material groundwork, the latter the spiritual conceptions. In truth the English language, which by no mere accident has produced and...
Page 91 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Page 253 - As he had no home and no family in the strict sense of a 'collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager...
Page iii - Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages in modern Europe, the Teutonic and the...
Page 295 - History of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors; pedigree.
Page 67 - The outer side of a ship above the water;— a discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship at the same time ; — a paper printed on one side only.
Page 200 - The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife; the reward paid for a wife; a gift; a fortune given.
Page 154 - debt' Is used with a very wide Import. When so used In a general or popular sense, It may be said to be that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay or perform to another.
Page 94 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.