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animal beat belonging bird body Cir-ele cloth color consisting costive destitute disease dress earth excite female fish flesh fowl fruit genus heat horse inclosed instru instrument kind land lence liquor loose manner ment metal move ness noise one's pain person pertaining piece plant prep pron quadruped round ship shrub skin soft sound species stone substance swelling syllable tain tending thin thing ting tion tree utter v. t. or i. p. v. t. to cover v. t. to deprive v. t. to draw v. t. to fasten v. t. to form v. t. to give v. t. to lay v. t. to put v. t. to strip v. t. to take v. t. to throw versed vessel void wind wood words Yale College
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Page 39 - Broad'side, a discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship, above and below, at the same time.
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Page 341 - ... found in other dictionaries, and many of them the words for the precise meaning of which the general reader is most frequently at a loss ; the •nhography of several classes of words, instead of following cumbrous and obsolete modes of spelling, is confonned to the present usage of the best writers ; and...
Page 341 - Middlebury Colleges, and of the Andover Theological Institution. ** The merits of Dr. Webster's American Dictionary of the English language are very extensively acknowledged.
Page 101 - And further, when a deed is delivered to a third person to be delivered to the grantee on the grantor's death, the title passes as of the time of the first delivery.
Page 341 - Colleges, and of the Andover Theological Institution. ** The merits of Dr. Webster's American Dictionary of the English language are very extensively acknowledged. We regard it as a great improvement on all the works which leave preceded it : the definitions have a character of discrimination, copiousness, perspicuity, and accuracy, not found, we believe, in any other dictionary of the English language.
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