A New School Dictionary of the English Language: Embracing a Carefully Prepared Vocabulary of Words in Popular Use, Together with Tables Exhibiting the Pronunciation of Ancient and Modern Bibliographical and Geographical Names, Scripture Proper Names, Christian Names, &c., &c |
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accent ancient animal Ba'al Belonging bird body Capable cloth coin color cubic cubic centimetre daughter denotes diphthong disease Dry Measure female fish flower fruit Gold grain Greek horse instrument interj Jupiter kind king Latin Latin Union letter manner mark measure medicine metal Milrei mollusk musical ness noise Noting ornament Për person Pertaining piece plant prep Priam pron quadruped Relating resembling ship short shrub soft sort sound species stone stringed instrument substance syllable thin thing tion tree TRIPHTHONGS Trojan war v. a. imp v. a. To bring v. a. To call v. a. To cover v. a. To form v. a. To give v. a. To lay v. a. To put v. a. To take v. n. To grow v. n. To move versed vessel vowel Want wind woman wood words
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Page 387 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches = 1 cubic foot 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard...
Page 378 - Edinburgh MRCVS . . Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons MRI . . Member of the Royal Institution MRIA . . Member of the Royal Irish Academy...
Page 375 - Bachelor of Arts. Bart, or Bt., Baronet. BC, Before Christ. BCL, Bachelor of Civil Law. BD, Bachelor of Divinity.
Page 382 - Three. IV, Four. V, Five. VI, Six. VII, Seven. VIII, Eight. IX, Nine. X, Ten. XI, Eleven. XII, Twelve.' XIII, Thirteen. XIV, Fourteen. XV, Fifteen. XVI, Sixteen. XVII, Seventeen. XVIII, Eighteen. XIX, Nineteen. XX, Twenty. XXX, Thirty. XL, Forty. L, Fifty. LX, Sixty. LXX, Seventy. LXXX, Eighty. XC, Ninety. C, One hundred.
Page 383 - The sign of division is written thus, -7-, and, placed between two numbers or quantities, shows that the one on the left is to be divided by the one on the right.
Page 8 - The sound of e is generally suppressed in the preterites of verbs, and in participles, in ed, when the e is not preceded by d or t ; as feared, praised, tossed, &c., pronounced feard, praisd, tost.
Page 369 - A husbandman, but afterward king of Phrygia, remarkable for tying a knot of cords, on which the empire of Asia depended, in so intricate a manner, that Alexander, unable to unravel it, cut it asunder.
Page 372 - Clymenc,who asked the guidance of his father's chariot for one day, as a proof of his divine descent ; but unable to manage the horses, set the world on fire, and was therefore struck by Jupiter with a thunderbolt into the river Po.
Page 386 - The length of a pendulum beating seconds in a vacuum at the level of the sea in the latitude of London.
Page 379 - ... qe, quod est, which is QED, quod erat demonstrandum, which was to be demonstrated QEF, quod erat faciendum, which was to be done...