A dictionary of the derivations of the English language1872 |
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akin allied to G allied to L angles animal beat belonging bend bind bird body break bring cause Celt cloth colour cover dicere diminutive discourse draw earth especially evil facere ferre fluid fold force Gael genus give graphein hair hence hold hollow inclosed instrument inter kind land light logos Low L ment mentum metal metron mind moral move mutare ness O. H. Ger one's originally pain person Pertaining piece plant præ prefix pron quadruped root round seize shine ship side skin soft sound speak strike struere substance surface taining thing throw tion tive trans tree turn unite utter v. t. F v. t. Ger v. t. Icel v. t. L v. t. Norm vessel wind wood words worn write
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Page 59 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Page 7 - an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency.
Page 61 - A circle is a plane bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre.
Page 23 - 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.
Page 118 - In geometry, a figure generated from the section of a cone by a plane cutting both sides of the cone, but not parallel with the base; popularly called an oval. In grammar, a figure of syntax by which one or more words are omitted.
Page 134 - The word factory is a contraction of manufactory, which Webster defines to be "a building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods," but a manufactory is something more than a building.
Page 12 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.
Page 274 - A long piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, or todetermine a perpendicular, &c.
Page 242 - NONES, in the Roman calendar, the fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December! and the seventh of March, May, July, and October.
Page 119 - An opening in a wall or parapet through which cannon are pointed and discharged.