The Ladies' Lexicon and Parlour Companion: Containing Nearly Every Word in the English Language ... |
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Common terms and phrases
AFFUSE 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 instrument kind of bird kind of fish kind of plant language lence LIBRATE light liquor loose mean measure medicine ment metal mind motion move nature ness noise nouns officer pain past past par person piece plural pr par prep Pret Preterit pron pronounced quadruped quick rank Relating sharp ship short side signifying sion sive soft soldiers sort sound species of plant stone stringed musical substance syllable tain thin thing throw tion tive tree TREPAN ture verse vessel violence wind woman wood word young
Popular passages
Page 10 - 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.
Page 9 - 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, wii, witty; thin, thinnisk; to abet, an abettor; to begin, a beginner.
Page 106 - REBATE, is an allowance made on a bill, or any other debt not yet become due, in consideration of present payment.
Page 239 - A place or cavern in the earth which contains metals, or minerals ; a cavern dug under any fort fication.
Page 128 - A vain belief of private revelation ; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication.
Page 113 - A place where water Is let in or out at pleasure, where ships are built or laid up.
Page 165 - The parts of a goose which are cut off before it is roasted.
Page 267 - 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.