Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Languge: Abridged for the Use of Schools : Containing a Compendium of the Principles of English Pronunciation with Proper Names that Occur in the Sacred Scriptures : to which is Likewise Added, a Selection of Geographical Proper Names and Derivatives

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Edmund Cushing, 1834 - 447 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 10 - PRONUNCIATION and sometimes even at the end of a syllable in the middle of a word...
الصفحة 142 - A book made by order of William the Conqueror, In which the estates of the kingdom were registered. DOOR, dire, a.
الصفحة 41 - That part of the orbit of a planet in which it is at the point remotest from the sun.
الصفحة 58 - Some-thing made to sleep on ; lodging ; marriage ; bank of earth raised in a garden ; the channel of a river, or any hollow...
الصفحة 131 - It, s. three fourths of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon ; any number expressed by a single figure. Di gi ta ted, dlj' è Ча-tèd, a. branched out into divisions like fingers. Dig ni fy, dig" né 'fi, va to advance, prefer, exalt ; to honour.
الصفحة 300 - Physiognomy, flzh-c-6g'-no-me. s. the art of discovering the temper and foreknowing the fortune by the features of the face : the cast of the look.
الصفحة 40 - Those people who, living on the other side of the globe, have their feet directly opposite to ours. US...
الصفحة 190 - Gantlet, gant'lct. s. a military punishment in which the criminal running between the ranks receives a lash from each man Gaol, jile.
الصفحة 72 - Buckle, buk'-kl . s. a link of metal, with a tongue or catch, made to fasten one thing to another ; the state of the hair crisped and curled.
الصفحة 369 - The part of any solid body remaining after the rest is taken away," is a flattering description of one of our stumps of the thigh. It is in reality with us barely more than a peg whereon to hang an artificial limb. In youth, in middle age, in advanced years, it never improves. It never can be more than a shortened bone, with shortened and shrivelled materials around...

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