A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and Meaning, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1790 - English language |
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Page 39 - a kind of writing, in which the words of an author or his thoughts are taken, and by a slight change adapted to some new purpose," -a several parodic passages may be found.
Page xxxvi - It commonly consists of thirteen lines or verses, of which eight have one rhyme, and five another. It is divided into three couplets, and at the end of the second and third, the beginning of the rondeau is repeated, if possible, in an equivocal or punning sense.
Page 26 - Libration is the balancing motion or trepidation in the firmament, whereby the declination of the sun, and the latitude of the stars, change from time to time. Li BH ATOR Y , li'brd-tur-ea (512). Balancing, playing like a balance. ffj
Page xxxvi - Egyptian cubit was six handbreadths, or two spans, a span being the measure from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger of the extended hand.
Page 39 - In arithmetic^, the increasing .of any one number by another, so often as there are units in that number, by which the one is increased. MULTIPLICATOR,(mul-te-ple-ka'-tnr)n.!. The number by which" another number is multiplied.
Page xxxvi - JOHNSON has defined romance, in its primary sense, to be " a military fable of the middle ages ; a tale of wild adventures in love and chivalry.
Page 39 - NOW, nou. ad. 40, 322. At this time, at the time present; a little while ago. It is sometimes a particle of connexion , as, If this be true, he is guilty. Now this is* true, therefore he is guilty. After this ; since things are so, in familiar speech. Now and then ; at one time and another, uncertainly.
Page 39 - The aperture in the head of any animal at which the food is received ; the opening, that at which any thing enters, the entrance ; the instrument of speaking ; a speaker, the principal orator, in burlesque language; cry.vuice.
Page 39 - A trial by fire or water, by which the perfon accufed appealed to Heaven, by •walking blindfold over hot bars of iron, or being thrown into the water. " Who might, perhaps, reduce his caufe " To th
Page 21 - Leap-year, or bissextile, Is every fourth year, and so called from its leaping a day more that year than in a common year ; so that the common year hath three hundred and sixty-five days...