A Primary School Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, and Synonymous: With an Appendix Containing Various Useful TablesJ.B. Lippincott, 1871 - 352 pages |
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animal Belonging bird body Capable Celt cloth color costive disease dress earth fasten female fish fruit Full horse inclose instru instrument interj kind land light liquor manner mark marriage ment metal ness officer pain person Pertaining piece plant prep pron quadruped Quality Relating resembling round sharp ship short shrub side sing sion skilled soft sound stone substance sudden syllable taining Tending thawt thin thing tion tree utter v. i. To grow v. i. To move v. t. imp v. t. To bring v. t. To cover v. t. To draw v. t. To form v. t. To give v. t. To lay v. t. To put v. t. To take v. t. To throw versed vessel Want wind woman wood words zish'un
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Page 329 - Meum et tuum. [L.] Mine and thine. Mirabile dictu. [L.] Wonderful to be told ; — visu, wonderful to be seen.
Page 258 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus...
Page 275 - A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred ; a third person called in to decide a question submitted to arbitrators, when the arbitrators do not agree in opinion.
Page 328 - Hfrculem, we recognize a Hercules from the size of the foot ; that is, we judge of the whole from the specimen : — post facto, after the deed is done.
Page vii - Derivatives of words of this class ending in silent e, as also those formed from words ending in double e by adding a termination beginning with e, drop the final e -' as, hoe, hoed ; agree, agreed.
Page 327 - Cui bono ? [L.] For whose benefit? Colloquially, but erroneously, of what use? Cuisine. [Fr.] A kitchen ; cookery. Cum grano salis. [L.] With a grain of salt ; with, some allowance ; — privilegio, with privilege. Cúrrente cálamo. [L.] With a running or rapid pen. Gustos rotufarum. [L.] Keeper of the rolls. D.
Page 326 - Argumentum ad kominem. [L.] An argument deriving its force from the situation of the person to whom it is addressed.
Page 331 - Revenons d nos moulons. [Fr.] Let us return to our sheep; let us return to our subject.
Page 145 - Time a throne is vacant between the death of a king and the accession of his successor.
Page 325 - US United States. USA United States of America; United States Army. USM United States Mail. USN United States Navy.