A smaller English dictionaryBlackie and Son, 1872 - 472 páginas |
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affection animal batuo Belonging bend bird body bring cause church close cloth colour consisting containing costive cover degree destitute disease draw dress earth equal evil excite express facio fasten favour flax flesh flow flowers fluid force Full furnish give Goth heat hold hollow honour horse Icel inclose instrument kind land lego light ligo liquid liquor Low L manner marriage means measure ment metal mind moral motion move nature ness Old Fr Old G one's p.n. Act p.n. The act pain pass person Pertaining piece plant pret produced pron quadruped Quality Relating render resembling Roman Catholic church round ship shon side sion soft sound species spirit stone substance surface syllable taining thing tion tree utter versed vessel violent word writing
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Página 245 - Government by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation.
Página 103 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Página 213 - The principal timber in a ship, extending from stem to stern at the bottom, and supporting the whole frame ; a low flat-bottomed vessel, used in the river Tyne to convey coals from Newcastle for loading the colliers. On an even keel, in a level or horizontal position.
Página 273 - A parish is that circuit of ground which is committed to the charge of one parson, or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
Página 233 - The process of nutking anything by the hand; the operation of reducing raw materials of any kind into a form suitable for use; anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art.
Página 233 - Map, map, n. A representation of the surface of the earth, or of any part of it, drawn on paper or other material; a delineation of the heavens, of geological strata, &c.— vt.
Página 264 - OR'ATORY, the art of speaking well, or of speaking according to the rules of rhetoric, in order to persuade. To constitute oratory, the speaking must be just and pertinent to the subject ; it must be methodical, all parts of the discourse being disposed in due order and connection ; and it must be embellished with the beauties of language and pronounced with eloquence.
Página 238 - ... the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of past events, or ideas which are past.
Página 186 - The ides, the 15th day of March, May, July, and October ; and the 13th of the other months, i.
Página 247 - ... a mixture of lime and sand with water, used as a cement for uniting stones and bricks in walls.