... Webster's Common School Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English Language, Designed for Use in Common Schools ; Abridged from Webster's International Dictionary...American book Company, 1892 - 422 pages |
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... figure , or any character or sign , or of a word mentioned with- out regard to its meaning , the letter s , generally preceded by the apostrophe , is appended , as in $ 20 . The plurals of a few nouns ending in ƒ or fe are irregularly ...
... figure , or any character or sign , or of a word mentioned with- out regard to its meaning , the letter s , generally preceded by the apostrophe , is appended , as in $ 20 . The plurals of a few nouns ending in ƒ or fe are irregularly ...
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... figure . A - re'na ( å - re'nȧ ) , n . A place of contest . A're - om'e - ter ( a'rê - ŏm'ê - ter ) , n . An ... figures.- A - rith / me- ti'cian ( -tish'an ) , n . One skilled in arithmetic . Arith - met'ic - al ( ăr / ith - met'ĭ - kal ) ...
... figure . A - re'na ( å - re'nȧ ) , n . A place of contest . A're - om'e - ter ( a'rê - ŏm'ê - ter ) , n . An ... figures.- A - rith / me- ti'cian ( -tish'an ) , n . One skilled in arithmetic . Arith - met'ic - al ( ăr / ith - met'ĭ - kal ) ...
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... figures are slightly raised above the ground work . Bass ( bas ) , n . A food fish , of many species . Bass ( bas ) , n . The linden , or lime tree . Bass ( bas ) , n . The lowest part in a musical com- position . - a . Grave or deep in ...
... figures are slightly raised above the ground work . Bass ( bas ) , n . A food fish , of many species . Bass ( bas ) , n . The linden , or lime tree . Bass ( bas ) , n . The lowest part in a musical com- position . - a . Grave or deep in ...
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... figure Buggy without and with Top . work of brass , unburnished gold , etc. , set into surfaces of ebony , tortoise - shell , etc. Buhr'stone ( bur'ston ' ) , n . A variety of flinty quartz , valuable for millstones . [ Often writ- ten ...
... figure Buggy without and with Top . work of brass , unburnished gold , etc. , set into surfaces of ebony , tortoise - shell , etc. Buhr'stone ( bur'ston ' ) , n . A variety of flinty quartz , valuable for millstones . [ Often writ- ten ...
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... figure carved . Cas - cade ' ( kas - kād ' ) , n . A small waterfall . Case ( kās ) , n . A covering , box , or sheath ; a box and its contents ; the quantity contained in a box.v. t . [ CASED ( kast ) ; CASING . ] To cover with or put ...
... figure carved . Cas - cade ' ( kas - kād ' ) , n . A small waterfall . Case ( kās ) , n . A covering , box , or sheath ; a box and its contents ; the quantity contained in a box.v. t . [ CASED ( kast ) ; CASING . ] To cover with or put ...
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a'shun al-ly angles animal bird body Capable cloth Colloq color consisting containing cover Destitute disease dress earth equal er-y expressing fish flowering plant flowers foot fruit Full give grain ground hold horse I-kal ical inclose instrument interj Iz'm kind land larvæ light maize manner mark marriage medicine ment metal mollusk motion move musical ness one's pain person Pertaining piece plant plid prep produced pron quadruped quantity rank resembling Roman Catholic Church sail seed ship shrub shun shund side sing skin soft sound species stone substance surface syllable taining terd thin thing thread tilt hammer timber timz tion to-ry tree turn unite utter v. i. To become v. t. imp v. t. To put versed vessel violent wheel wind wood words written
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Page 361 - A syllable, in the spoken language, is one or more elementary sounds pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word.
Page 360 - An oath is a solemn affirmation, or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed, and imprecating his vengeance, and renouncing his favor, if what is affirmed is false.
Page viii - ... colloquies. The plural of proper nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant, is formed by changing y into ies, according to the rule: as, "The three Maries.
Page vi - ... buzz. § 4. A consonant standing at the end of a word immediately after a diphthong or double vowel is never doubled. The words ail, peat, haul, door,
Page 198 - Lee (le), n. ; pi, LEES (lez). Coarser parts of liquor, which settle at the bottom ; sediment ; dregs. Lee (le), n. Place defended from the wind ; shelter ; quarter towards which the wind blows, as opposed to that from which it proceeds, —a. Pertaining to the side away from the wind. — Lee shore. Shore on the lee side of a ship. — Lee tide. Tide running in the same direction as the wind blows. — Lee'ward (IS'werd or lu'3rd), a. Pertaining to the side toward which the wind blows, —n. The...