The Ladies' Lexicon, and Parlour Companion: Containing Nearly Every Word in the English Language, and Exhibiting the Plurals of Nouns and the Participles of Verbs; Being Also Particularly Adapted to the Use of Academies and SchoolsJohn Grigg, 1829 - 407 من الصفحات |
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ancient animal beatific Belonging bird of prey body censure church chym CICATRIZE cloth coarse colour corrupt cover denoting depilated DIFFLUENCE dress earth fire flower foot fore fruit ground head HIEROLOGY hinder honour horse ical iness INGURGITATE instrument kind of bird kind of fish kind of plant language lence LIBRATE light liquor loose marriage mean measure medicine ment metal motion move nature ness noise nouns officer pain past past par person piece plural prep Pret Preterit pron pronounced quadruped quick rank Relating ship short side sion sive soft soldiers sort sound species of plant stone string stringed musical substance syllable tain thin thing throw tion tive tree TREPAN ture verse vessel violence ward wind woman wood word worn
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الصفحة 3 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel ; as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
الصفحة 180 - The half of a globe when it is supposed to be cut through its centre in the plane of one of its greatest circles. HEMISPHERICAL, he'me-sfe'r'lk41. (509). HEMISPHERIC K, he'me-sfer'lk. Half round, containing half a globe. HEMISTICH, he-mls'uk. s. (509). Half a verse.
الصفحة 4 - Compounded words are generally spelled in the same manner as the simple words of which they are formed; as, glasshouse, skylight, thereby, hereafter Many words ending with double /, are exceptions to this rule: as, already, welfare, wilful, fulfil: and also the words wherever, Christmas, lammas, &.c.
الصفحة 233 - A broad strap made fast to the girths under the belly of a horse, which runs between the two forelegs to fasten the other end under the noseband of the bridle.
الصفحة 249 - An imaginary being supposed to preside over the material and animal world...
الصفحة 120 - ... that path or way among the fixed stars, that the earth appears to describe, to an eye placed in the sun.
الصفحة 143 - Forty pence, or three and four pence, still remains, in many offices, the legal and established fee" (STEEVENS). forwearied, worn out, iv. 19. fosset-seller, ono who sells fossets or faucets (Fr. faussets), the pipes inserted into a vessel to give vent to the liquor, and stopped up by a peg or spigot (
الصفحة 132 - The empty space between the glacis of a citadel and the first houses of the town.