A High-school Dictionary of the English Language Explanatory, Pronouncing, and Synonymous: With an Appendix Containing Various Useful Tables : Mainly Abridged from the Latest Edition of the Quarto Dictionary of Noah WebsterIvison,Phinney, Blakeman & Company, 1873 - 415 pages |
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... hands of an accomplished teacher , this volume may be maae highly useful in schoos , since it furnishes material for a valuable course of exercises on words , including their orthography , pronunciation , definition , composition ...
... hands of an accomplished teacher , this volume may be maae highly useful in schoos , since it furnishes material for a valuable course of exercises on words , including their orthography , pronunciation , definition , composition ...
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... hand , we say he'ro , i'ris , glory , lu'rid , & c . , be- cause these words are not derived from any other words in the language . It is to be observed that those orthoëpists who maintain that r has one invariable sound , assert that ...
... hand , we say he'ro , i'ris , glory , lu'rid , & c . , be- cause these words are not derived from any other words in the language . It is to be observed that those orthoëpists who maintain that r has one invariable sound , assert that ...
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... hand , the s in winds is syllable , and secondary , as in super - in - tend ' , vocalized , or assumes the sound of z , for the where the first syllable is distinguished by a sake of corresponding with the vocal d . Some - stress ...
... hand , the s in winds is syllable , and secondary , as in super - in - tend ' , vocalized , or assumes the sound of z , for the where the first syllable is distinguished by a sake of corresponding with the vocal d . Some - stress ...
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... hand , and a noun or an adjective on the other . To distinguish between them , we accent the nouns and the adjectives on the first syllable , and the verbs on the last , as , a con / vert , to convert ' ; a contract , to con- tract ...
... hand , and a noun or an adjective on the other . To distinguish between them , we accent the nouns and the adjectives on the first syllable , and the verbs on the last , as , a con / vert , to convert ' ; a contract , to con- tract ...
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... hand . v . i . To go on ; to improve ; to rise in rank . " Ad - vȧnçe'ment , n . Act of ad- vancing or moving forward ; progress ; promotion ; prefer- ment . Ad - vȧn'tage ( 5 , 133 ) , n . Fa- vorable circumstances ; supe- riority ...
... hand . v . i . To go on ; to improve ; to rise in rank . " Ad - vȧnçe'ment , n . Act of ad- vancing or moving forward ; progress ; promotion ; prefer- ment . Ad - vȧn'tage ( 5 , 133 ) , n . Fa- vorable circumstances ; supe- riority ...
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