The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English dictionary, Volumen31883 |
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... less as required , or be folded up to occupy less space , used in a room for excluding cold , or intercepting the heat of a fire . Your leafy screens . ' Shak . Our fathers knew the value of a screen From sultry suns . Cowper . 2. That ...
... less as required , or be folded up to occupy less space , used in a room for excluding cold , or intercepting the heat of a fire . Your leafy screens . ' Shak . Our fathers knew the value of a screen From sultry suns . Cowper . 2. That ...
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... less or careless writing ; scribble [ Rare . ] Scribbler ( skribler ) , n . 1. One who scribbles or writes carelessly , loosely , or badly ; hence , a petty author ; a writer of no reputation . Venal and licentious scribblers , with ...
... less or careless writing ; scribble [ Rare . ] Scribbler ( skribler ) , n . 1. One who scribbles or writes carelessly , loosely , or badly ; hence , a petty author ; a writer of no reputation . Venal and licentious scribblers , with ...
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... less ; contemptible ; as , a scurvy fellow . ' A very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral . ' Shak . That scurvy custom of taking tobacco . ' Swift . - 3 . Offensive ; mis- chievous ; malicious ; as , a scurvy trick . Nay , but he ...
... less ; contemptible ; as , a scurvy fellow . ' A very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral . ' Shak . That scurvy custom of taking tobacco . ' Swift . - 3 . Offensive ; mis- chievous ; malicious ; as , a scurvy trick . Nay , but he ...
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... less correctly Seltzer- water . Seltzogene ( selt ́zō - jēn ) , n . Same as Gazo- gene . Selvage ( sel'vāj ) , n . See SELVEDGE . Naut . a skein or Selvagee ( sel - va - jē ' ) , n . hank of rope - yarn wound round with yarns or marline ...
... less correctly Seltzer- water . Seltzogene ( selt ́zō - jēn ) , n . Same as Gazo- gene . Selvage ( sel'vāj ) , n . See SELVEDGE . Naut . a skein or Selvagee ( sel - va - jē ' ) , n . hank of rope - yarn wound round with yarns or marline ...
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... less than five years ' stand- ing , and doctors of less than two , and is called the upper house or white - hood house , from its members wearing hoods lined with white silk . All other masters and doctors who keep their names on the ...
... less than five years ' stand- ing , and doctors of less than two , and is called the upper house or white - hood house , from its members wearing hoods lined with white silk . All other masters and doctors who keep their names on the ...
Términos y frases comunes
acid Addison allied animal applied Bacon body called cause Chaucer Colloq colour common comp consisting cover Dickens divine Dryden English eyes fish flowers genus Goth ground hence horse Hudibras Icel iron John kind L'Estrange light LL.D Lord manner means ment metal Milton molluscs motion name given Naut ness one's person Pertaining piece plant poet Pope Prov Provincial Rare resembling root Scotch Scotland Scots law Scott screw seed sense separate Shak sharp shell ship shoot shrubs side Slang sleep slip smooth socage soft solid soul sound South spal spathe species Spenser spirit spleen spring stamens stand stars steam stem stoma stone substance surface Swift Tennyson term thing Thos thou tion tree v.t. pret verb vessel wood word
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Página 170 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Página 40 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Página 200 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Página 169 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Página 152 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight. Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, Which thou dost glare with.
Página 86 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Página 70 - And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams...
Página 53 - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 116 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Página 40 - But Martha was cumbered about much serving ; and came to him, and said ; Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone ? bid her therefore that she help me.