The universal pronouncing and defining dictionary of the English language, with numerous synonyms by C.A. Goodrich [&c.].1869 |
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affection animal applied Belonging bird body cause church cloth color Consisting costive denotes DIPHTHONG disease dress evil excite expression fish flower force fruit genus heat hence horse inclose instrument kind letter light manner mark marriage means ment metal mind motion move ness one's opposed pain pass person Pertaining piece plant produce pron quadruped Relating resembling Roman Catholic Church round sense ship short shrub side sion soft sound species spirit stone substance syllable tain Tending thing tion tree utter v. i. to become v. i. To grow v. t. Literally v. t. or v. i. v. t. pret v. t. To bring v. t. To cover v. t. To form v. t. To give v. t. To put v. t. To take vessel words writing
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Page 54 - A figure in poetry, by which a short syllable after a complete foot is made long ; a pause in verse.
Page 50 - The entire side of a ship; a discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship at once ; a large sheet of paper printed on one side, to be stuck up.
Page 136 - An ambassador is a minister of the highest rank, employed by one prince or state at the court of another, to manage the concerns of his own prince or state, and representing the dignity and power of his sovereign.
Page i - This volume of Webster's Dictionary has been framed expressly for the benefit of those who are cultivating English composition on a broad scale. Obsolete words have been cut out ; and the space thus gained has been devoted to definitions and synonyms, carefully discriminated in many instances. The merits of this special edition of Webster's learned work are cheapness, comprehensiveness of scheme, portability of form, and carefulness o typography...
Page 217 - ... induction we observe a sufficient number of individual facts, and on the ground of analogy, extend what is true of them to others of the same class, thus arriving at general principles or laws. This is the kind of reasoning in physical science. In deduction we begin with a general truth, which is already proven or provisionally assumed and seek to connect it with some particular case by means of a middle term or class of objects known to be equally connected with both.
Page 209 - To lay on, as a burden, tax, duty, or penalty ; to place over by authority or force ; to lay on, as a command, or as hands in ordination : among printer», to put the pages on the stone, and fit on the chase, and prepare the form for the press. To impoM on, is to deceive ; delude.
Page 187 - The custom of giving produces a habit of liberality ; habit* of devotion promote the custom of going to church. Custom supposes an act of the will, selecting given modes of procedure ; habit is a law of our being, a kind of " second nature
Page 335 - One of the extremities of the axis upon which the sphere turns; the extremity of the earth's axis ; the star which is vertical to the pole of the earth ; one of the two points of a magnet corresponding to the poles of the eartb.
Page 25 - A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions...
Page 34 - BASTION (bast'yun), n. A large projecting mass of earth or masonry at the angles of a fortified work to defend the curtain or wall between. BAT. n. A stick used at cricket . an animal of the order cheiroptera ; a thin sheet of cotton. BATCH, n. The quantity of bread baked at one time ; any quantity of a thing made at once.