The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, Parte13William Dwight Whitney Century Company, 1890 |
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... Chaucer . Latin and Greek alphabets , and maalin ( mäʼlin ) , n . in their source , the Phenician . The conspectus of forms in these [ Shetland . ] three alphabets , with the Egyptian characters from which many be- lieve the M to be ...
... Chaucer . Latin and Greek alphabets , and maalin ( mäʼlin ) , n . in their source , the Phenician . The conspectus of forms in these [ Shetland . ] three alphabets , with the Egyptian characters from which many be- lieve the M to be ...
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... Chaucer , Complaint of Mars , 1. 253 . " Alas ! " quath the freir , " almost y madde in mynde , To sen houz this Minoures many men begyleth . " Piers Plowman's Crede ( E. E. T. S. ) , 1. 280 . 2. To rage ; fight madly . But for none ...
... Chaucer , Complaint of Mars , 1. 253 . " Alas ! " quath the freir , " almost y madde in mynde , To sen houz this Minoures many men begyleth . " Piers Plowman's Crede ( E. E. T. S. ) , 1. 280 . 2. To rage ; fight madly . But for none ...
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... Chaucer , Boëthius , iii . prose 4 . 2. An administrator of the law ; one who pos- sesses jurisdiction or executive authority in matters of civil government ; an executive or judicial officer holding the power of decision and disposal ...
... Chaucer , Boëthius , iii . prose 4 . 2. An administrator of the law ; one who pos- sesses jurisdiction or executive authority in matters of civil government ; an executive or judicial officer holding the power of decision and disposal ...
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... Chaucer . mahlstick ( mäl'stik ) , n . [ Also maulstick , mal- stick ; G. mahlstock , malstock , malen , paint , + stock , stick , staff . ] A staff , from three to four feet long , used by painters as a rest for the right hand , and ...
... Chaucer . mahlstick ( mäl'stik ) , n . [ Also maulstick , mal- stick ; G. mahlstock , malstock , malen , paint , + stock , stick , staff . ] A staff , from three to four feet long , used by painters as a rest for the right hand , and ...
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... Chaucer , Prol . to Wife of Bath's Tale , 1. 79 . He was clene mayde imartred with the same maydenes . Trevisa , tr . of Higden's Polychronicon , v . 69 . 4. A female servant or attendant charged with domestic duties : usually with a ...
... Chaucer , Prol . to Wife of Bath's Tale , 1. 79 . He was clene mayde imartred with the same maydenes . Trevisa , tr . of Higden's Polychronicon , v . 69 . 4. A female servant or attendant charged with domestic duties : usually with a ...
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anat birds body bone Brit called century character characterized Chaucer Child's Ballads Church color common dicotyledonous E. A. Freeman Early mod Encyc entom fish flowers formerly genera genus Goth Halliwell hence Hist Icel intrans iron Jonson kind larvæ machicolate machine mackerel maculate magnet male manganese manner manus marble margin mark marsupial mass mast mastic material matter maxilla means measure mechanical mediate membrane ment mercury Merlin E. E. T. S. mesentery mesothorax meta metal metamere metatarsus meter method Middle English Middle English form Milton native natural order neut noun obsolete form orig person pertaining Piers Plowman plants pret Prov Rare resembling sclerite sense Shak sometimes species subfamily taining thou tion trans tree tribe usually word
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Página 3632 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet...
Página 3739 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Página 3758 - But I say unto you, It shall ,be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Página 3606 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 3602 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 3668 - I find also that in the month of May, the citizens of London of all estates, lightly in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several mayings and did fetch in maypoles, with divers warlike shows, with good archers...
Página 3715 - Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Página 3620 - manufacture" in § 101 in accordance with its dictionary definition to mean "the production of articles for use from raw or prepared materials by giving to these materials new forms, qualities, properties, or combinations, whether by hand-labor or by machinery.
Página 3587 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Página 3678 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able.