The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological, Volumen4Blackie & son, 1883 |
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... stars , passing within a few degrees of the zenith , where the effect of refraction is small . - Dip sector , an instrument used for measuring the dip of the horizon . Sectoral ( sek'tō - ral ) , a . Of or belonging to a sector ; as , a ...
... stars , passing within a few degrees of the zenith , where the effect of refraction is small . - Dip sector , an instrument used for measuring the dip of the horizon . Sectoral ( sek'tō - ral ) , a . Of or belonging to a sector ; as , a ...
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... stars , flames of all kinds , bodies which shine by being heated or rubbed , are self - luminous . Self - made ( self ' mad ) , a . Made by one's self ; specifically , having risen in the world by one's own exertions ; as , a self ...
... stars , flames of all kinds , bodies which shine by being heated or rubbed , are self - luminous . Self - made ( self ' mad ) , a . Made by one's self ; specifically , having risen in the world by one's own exertions ; as , a self ...
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... stars , billets , crosses , & c . It is also called Powdered . Semé of fleur - de - lis . Semecarpus ( sẽ - me - kar'pus ) , n . [ Gr . semeion , a mark , and karpos , fruit . ] A small genus of Asiatic and Australian trees , nat ...
... stars , billets , crosses , & c . It is also called Powdered . Semé of fleur - de - lis . Semecarpus ( sẽ - me - kar'pus ) , n . [ Gr . semeion , a mark , and karpos , fruit . ] A small genus of Asiatic and Australian trees , nat ...
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... stars . ' B. Jonson . Seminiferous ( sem - i - nif'èr - us ) , a . [ L. semen , seminis , seed , and fero , to produce . ] Seed- bearing ; producing seed . Seminific , Seminifical ( sem - i - nif'ik , sem - i- nif'ik - al ) , a . ( L ...
... stars . ' B. Jonson . Seminiferous ( sem - i - nif'èr - us ) , a . [ L. semen , seminis , seed , and fero , to produce . ] Seed- bearing ; producing seed . Seminific , Seminifical ( sem - i - nif'ik , sem - i- nif'ik - al ) , a . ( L ...
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... stars set their watch in the sky . Campbell Sentinel ( sen'ti - nel ) , v.t. 1. To watch over as a sentinel . To sentinel enchanted ground . ' Sir W. Scott . - 2 . To furnish with a sentinel or sentinels ; to place under the guard of ...
... stars set their watch in the sky . Campbell Sentinel ( sen'ti - nel ) , v.t. 1. To watch over as a sentinel . To sentinel enchanted ground . ' Sir W. Scott . - 2 . To furnish with a sentinel or sentinels ; to place under the guard of ...
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acid Addison allied animal applied arch Bacon body called cause Chaucer Colloq colour common comp consisting cover Dickens Dryden English eyes fish fixed flowers genus Goth ground hence horse Hudibras Icel instrument iron kind L'Estrange light manner means ment metal Milton molluscs motion name given Naut ness one's person Pertaining piece Pope Provincial Rare resembling root Scotch Scotland Scots law Scott screw seed sense separate Shak sharp shell ship shoot short shrubs side silent silicate silicic acid siliqua silver sleep slip smell smoke smooth soft solid sometimes soul sound South spathe species Spenser spirit spleen spring stamens stand stars steam stem stoma stone strain substance surface Swift Tennyson term thing thou tion tree v. t. pret verb vessel wood word
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Página 73 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Página 194 - Against thy mother aught ; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
Página 167 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 120 - And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Página 64 - And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
Página 147 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Página 103 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 23 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Página 138 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight. Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, Which thou dost glare with.
Página 77 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.