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User Review - Flag as inappropriate I don't understand why anyone would want to archive this dictionary. It is a terrible edition. User Review - Flag as inappropriate Nicely scanned - but what of pages 308&309? Related books
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Common terms and phrases8.the act animal beat belonging bird bird of prey body censure cheat church chyle cloth colour Consociate corn costive cover denoting diphthong disease dress e.one England fall false fasten fat;—me Fate File fill fire fish flax flower fruit herb horse instrument iron j—pine join kawz kind land liquor loose maize manner mark marriage mean measure ment met;—pine move musical ness noise not;—tube Optick ornament pain pass peevish person pertaining piece pine plant play prep pret preterit pron pronounced publick pustule quick relating round rude S.the sharp ship sion soft soldiers sort sound stone swelling syllable thin thing thing1 tion tr.a tree Trepan tube United v. a. to put vessel wawk wicked wild wind woman wood word writing Popular passagesPage 59 - The day of the week, throughout the year, answering to the day on which the feast of the Holy Innocents is solemnized. CHILDHOOD, tshlld'hud, s. Page 35 - BEAVER, bcr'vur. a. 227, 98. An animal, otherwise named the castor, amphibious, and remarkable for his art in building his habitat ion ; a hat of the best kind ; the part of a helmet that covers the face. Page 215 - Application of a word to a use to which in its original import it cannot be put ; as, " He bridles his anger, he deadens the sound " ; " The spring awakes the flowers. Page 13 - Parts of a number, which, however repeated, will never make up the number exactly ; as, 3 is an aliquant of 10, thrice 3 being 9, four times 3 making 12. Page 319 - . a fabled monster in Egypt, having the face of a virgin and the "body of a lion. Page 100 - Di"git, a, three quarters of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon ; any number under ten. Page 90 - Day, da', n. the time between the rising and setting of the sun, called the artificial day ; the time from noon to noon, or from midnight to midnight, called the natural day ; light, sunshine ; any time specified and distinguished from other time, Daybreak, da-Wk, n. Page 388 - Gouging is performed by twisting the forefinger in a lock of hair, near the temple, and turning the eye out of the socket with the thumb nail, which is suffered to grow long for that purpose (Lambert). Page 71 - COMPOSITE, kom-piz'It, a. In architecture^ the Composite order is the last of the five orders of columns; so called because its capital is composed out of those of the other orders or columns. Composite num?*r« are such as can be measured exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3. References from web pageswalkerbooks.com - Books Samuel Johnson - Samuel Johnson's Dictionary A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia, the free ... Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary – Works Relating to Samuel Johnson in ... Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, revised. - By Adam Kirsch - Slate ... JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY.; Samuel's, Also, but an American Work and ... BBC - Staffordshire - Dr Johnson's Dictionary Samuel Johnson's - Dictionary of the English Language Dr Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings - Times Online Johnson's Dictionary Bibliographic information
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