Chambers's English Dictionary: Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological; with Vocabularies of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms, &cJames Donald W.& R. Chambers, 1872 - 952 Seiten |
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Chambers's English Dictionary: Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological ... James Donald Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Chambers's English Dictionary: Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological ... James Donald Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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A.S. pfx acid akin to Gr allied ancient animal arch asunder atum bear Belonging bend birds blood body called cause Celt church cloth colour conn consisting containing corr corruption cover deprive draw dress eidos entis facio fär fāte fish flowers fruit Full Gael genus give Goth grow head heat hold hollow horse instrument inten kind light low L manner mark measure ment metal Milton mind moon mōte musical müte n.pl native naut ness one's orig ornament p.adj pa.p pa.t person Pertaining piece plants pr.p priv prob produce Prov Relating resembling root round Scot shew ship sound species stone substance taining thing tion tree v.t. lit v.t. Shak v.t. Spenser v.t. To put v.t. To take vessel wood word worn
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Seite 255 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Seite 19 - Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the begin-ning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals...
Seite 89 - ... money to enable him to carry on his voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom of the ship (partem pro toto} as a security for the repayment.
Seite 139 - One is, that a circle is bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within the circle.
Seite 215 - 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.
Seite 392 - The section is an hyperbola, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.
Seite 397 - Image, im'aj, n. likeness : a statue : an idol : a representation in the mind, an idea : a picture in the imagination : (optics) the figure of any object formed by rays of light.— vt to form an image of: to form a likeness of in the mind.
Seite 385 - HORNBILL, hom'bu', n. A bird about the size of the turkey having a horny excrescence on its bill. HORNBLENDE, horn'blend, n. A mineral of various colours, found in granite and other igneous rocks that contain quartz. [Ger., from horn, horn, from the shape of its crystals, and blende, blinding, dazzling, from in glittering appearance.] HORNBOOK, horn'book, n.
Seite 386 - An observation of the heavens at the hour of a person's birth, by which the astrologer predicted the events of his life : a diagram of the heavens for this purpose : the point of the heavens arising above the eastern horizon when a prediction is to be made.
Seite 9 - Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a person other than the offender's husband or wife.