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animal Belonging bird body cause Church cloth coarse coin colour conj Containing disease especially excite favour female fish flower fruit Full ground horse instrument kind land light liquor manner means metal noise one's pain pass peevish person Pertaining piece plant produce pron quadruped Relating sense sharp ship skilled skin soldiers sound stone stringed musical substance thing tree utter v. a. and n v. a. To bring v. a. To cover v. a. To deprive v. a. To draw v. a. To fasten v. a. To form v. a. To give v. a. To lay v. a. To mark v. a. To put v. a. To strike v. a. To take v. a. To throw v. a. To turn v. n. To move vessel violently Want wind woman wood word
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Page 13 - Those people who, living on the other side of the globe, have their feet directly opposite to ours. US...
Page 79 - Di"git, a, three quarters of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon ; any number under ten. Di"gital, a.
Page 155 - The section is an hyperbola, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.
Page 23 - Some-thing made to sleep on ; lodging ; marriage ; bank of earth raised in a garden ; the channel of a river, or any hollow...
Page 39 - A compound formed by the union of carbonic acid with a base.
Page 258 - The designation of Protestant is used in England as a general term to denote all who protest against Popery. Such, however, was neither the original acceptation of the word, nor is it the sense in which it is still applied, on the continent. It was originally given to those who protested against a certain decree issued by the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires in 1529.
Page 78 - DIAMETER, in geometry, a right line passing through the centre of a circle ; and terminated at each side by the circumference thereof...
Page 314 - Outatare' vt To face down ; to browbeat. Square a. Having four equal sides and four right angles ; forming a right angle ; honest, upright ; suitable. s. A figure or area with four equal sides and right angles ; instrument with one edge at right angles to another ; relation of harmony ; equality ; product of a number multiplied by itself . vt To...
Page 119 - FOLIO (Lat. folium, a leaf), a book of the largest size, formed by once doubling a sheet of paper. FOOLSCAP, a kind of paper, usnally abou
Page 87 - ... n,, a Book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England, their value, owners, &c.