A New Primary Dictionary of the English Language: A Pronouncing and Defining Vocabulary of the Words in Popular Use, Rewritten and Enlarged from the Original Edition |
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Act or process animal avoirdupois Belonging bird body cause cloth color conj containing diphthong disease dress edible Evergreen Female fish flowering plants flowers fruit Genus grow hard horse insect instrument interj kind kwod land Large Latin prefix letters light liquid maize medicine ment metal Metric Mollusk motion musical scale ness noise one's ornament person Pertaining piece plant prep produce pron quadruped Relating sail Science ship short shrub side signifying sion skin Small soft Sort sound species stone Stringed musical substance syllable Tending thin thing tion tree tricity v. a. To cover v. a. To fasten v. a. To form v. a. To free v. a. To furnish v. a. To give v. a. To mark v. a. To put v. a. To strike v. a. To take v. n. To move verb versed vessel wood words würk
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Page 344 - GCB . . Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCIE . . Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire GCMG . . Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St.
Page 190 - Powers, are certain simple instruments, commonly employed for raising greater weights, or overcoming greater resistances, than could be effected by the natural strength without them. These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 285 - Span, the space from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger extended.
Page 152 - The section is an hyperbola, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.
Page 8 - T, like я and c, is aspirated when it comee immediately after the accent, and is followed by the vowels ia, ie, or io, taking the sound, in these cases, of sh ; as in partial) patient, nation.
Page 4 - 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 344 - FRS — Fellow of the Royal Society. FRSE — Fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh. FRSL — Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
Page 8 - Jfcs ; as, excellent, execute, expect, tax. It has a flat or soft sound, like gz, when the next syllable following begins with an accented vowel, as in exalt, example, &c.
Page 237 - A Preposition is a word used with a noun or pronoun to show its relation to some other word in the sentence.
Page 345 - KCMG,KnightCommander of St. Michael and St. George. KCSI, Knight Commander of the Star of India. KG, Knight of the Garter.