An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: To which is Added a Vocabulary of Greek, Latin, Scripture, Christian, and Geographical Names, with Their Pronunciation; Together with a Collection of Words and Phrases from Foreign Languages, Often Met with in the Works of English Writers, with Their SignificationBolles & Williams, 1846 - 944 páginas |
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a'ce à'll a'rt acid adorn ancient animal åt-good-w båt-on Belonging bẻt bird body botany called cause censure cheat church chyle cing cloth Coagulated color Consisting consonant containing contract corrupt costive court cover d'ce deceive DEMIGRATE deprive diphthong DISCOMMEND disease divided dråm draw dress earth enclose equal fall fasten figure fire fish flower force fossil fruit Full Furnished genus give glottis grow hair head heat heraldry hollow horse inhabitants instrument kind kros liquor manner mark measure medicine ment mind mineral motion mouth move ness nổ noise one's ornament pain person Pertaining piece plant pret produce Relating Resembling round separate ship sound species stone substance swelling syllable taining teeth term thing throw ting tion tổ tree unite utter vessel violence vowel wàs word
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Página 278 - A little circle whose centre is in the circumference of a greater ; or a small orb, which, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with...
Página 376 - The edge of a garment doubled and sewed to keep the threads from spreading ; the noise uttered by a sudden and violent expiration of the breath ; int<~rj.
Página 309 - In architecture, an ornament of carved work in the form of a wreath or garland of flowers, or leaves twisted together.
Página 225 - Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Página 3 - ... 1. No character should be set down in any word which is not pronounced. " 2. Every distinct simple sound should have a distinct character to mark it, for which it should uniformly stand.
Página 84 - Some-thing made to sleep on ; lodging ; marriage ; bank of earth raised in a garden ; the channel of a river, or any hollow...
Página 192 - A regular solid body, consisting of six square and equal faces or sides, and the angles all right, and therefore equal.
Página 35 - DEI, in the church of Rome, a cake of wax, stamped with the figure of a lamb supporting the banner of the cross. The name literally signifies
Página 308 - A slow motion of the intestine particles of a mixed body, arising usually from the operation of some active acid matter, which rarities, exalts, and subtilizes the soft and sulphureous particles : as when leaven or vest rarifien, lightens and ferments bread or wort FERMENTATIVE, fer-mentij-tiv, a.
Página 230 - REBATE, is an allowance made on a bill, or any other debt not yet become due, in consideration of present payment.