A Primary 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 American Dictionary of Noah WebsterIvison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1874 - 352 pages |
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Page vii
... metal and crystal , as metalloid , metallurgy , crystalline , crystallize , and the like , are writ- ten with the doubled , since they are de- rived respectively from the Latin cancellarius ( through the French ) , and metallum , and ...
... metal and crystal , as metalloid , metallurgy , crystalline , crystallize , and the like , are writ- ten with the doubled , since they are de- rived respectively from the Latin cancellarius ( through the French ) , and metallum , and ...
Page viii
... metal , model , panel , parallel , parcel , pencil , peril , pistol , pommel , quarrel , ravel , revel , rival , rowel , shovel , shrivel , snivel , tassel , tinsel , trammel , travel , tunnel , unravel , vial , victual , worship . In ...
... metal , model , panel , parallel , parcel , pencil , peril , pistol , pommel , quarrel , ravel , revel , rival , rowel , shovel , shrivel , snivel , tassel , tinsel , trammel , travel , tunnel , unravel , vial , victual , worship . In ...
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... metals by the cupel . Af - fin'i - ty , n . Relation by marriage ; close agreement ; chemical attraction . Af - firm ' , v . t . To establish or ratify ; to declare positively . -SYN . To aver ; protest ; assert ; asseverate . Af - firm ...
... metals by the cupel . Af - fin'i - ty , n . Relation by marriage ; close agreement ; chemical attraction . Af - firm ' , v . t . To establish or ratify ; to declare positively . -SYN . To aver ; protest ; assert ; asseverate . Af - firm ...
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... metals into gold . Al'eo - hol , n . Pure or highly rectified spirit . Al'eo - hol'ic , a . Pertaining to , or partaking of , alcohol . Al'eo - rån , n . The sacred book of the Mohammedans . room . A Al'cove , or Al - cōve ' , n ...
... metals into gold . Al'eo - hol , n . Pure or highly rectified spirit . Al'eo - hol'ic , a . Pertaining to , or partaking of , alcohol . Al'eo - rån , n . The sacred book of the Mohammedans . room . A Al'cove , or Al - cōve ' , n ...
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... metals ; a baser metal mixed with a fine . — v . t . To debase by mixing . All - saints ' - day , n . The first day of November . All - souls ' - day , n . The sec- ond day of November . All'spiçe , n . The berry of the pimento . Al ...
... metals ; a baser metal mixed with a fine . — v . t . To debase by mixing . All - saints ' - day , n . The first day of November . All - souls ' - day , n . The sec- ond day of November . All'spiçe , n . The berry of the pimento . Al ...
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ance animal Belonging bird body Capable cause Celt cloth color Consisting costive disease dress earth female fish flowers fluid fruit Full horse inclose instru instrument interj kind land light liquor manner mark marriage means 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 syllable taining Tending thawt thin thing tion tree utter v. i. To grow 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 vii - The words clef-, if> of, and sol, are exceptions. § 2. The letter s, at the end of a monosyllable, and...
Page 262 - 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 335 - Meum et tuum. [L.] Mine and thine. Mirabile dictu. [L.] Wonderful to be told ; — visu, wonderful to be seen.
Page viii - Apparel, bevel, bowel, cancel, carol, cavil, channel, chisel, counsel, cudgel, dishevel, drivel, duel, embowel, enamel, empanel, equal, gambol, gravel, grovel, handsel, hatchel, imperil, jewel, kennel, label, level, libel, marshal, marvel, model, panel, parcel, pencil, peril, pistol, pommel, quarrel, ravel, revel, rival, rowel, shovel, shrivel, snivel, tassel, iwuuud, travel, tunnel, unravel.