A Dictionary of the Derivations of the English Language: In which Each Word is Traced to Its Primary Root. Forming a Text Book of Etymology. With Definitions and the Pronunciation of Each WordW. Collins, 1872 - 400 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
akin allied to G allied to L ancient angles animal beat belonging bend bird body bring cause Celt church cloth colour cover dicere diminutive discourse draw earth especially evil facere fasten ferre fluid fold force Gael genus give graphein hence hold hollow horse Icel inclosed instrument inter kind land light logos Low L ment metal metron mind moral motion move ness O. H. Ger one's originally pain person Pertaining piece plant præ prefix pron quadruped root round Scot seize serere shine ship side skin soft sound speak strike struere substance surface taining thing throw tion tive trans tree turn utter v. t. F v. t. Ger v. t. L v. t. Norm vessel wind wood words worn write
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Página 59 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Página 7 - an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency.
Página 61 - A circle is a plane bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre.
Página 23 - Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Página 126 - In geometry, a figure generated from the section of a cone by a plane cutting both sides of the cone, but not parallel with the base; popularly called an oval. In grammar, a figure of syntax by which one or more words are omitted.
Página 142 - The word factory is a contraction of manufactory, which Webster defines to be "a building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods," but a manufactory is something more than a building.
Página 250 - NONES, in the Roman calendar, the fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December! and the seventh of March, May, July, and October.
Página 127 - An opening in a wall or parapet through which cannon are pointed and discharged.
Página 268 - The feast of the Passover was instituted by the Jews " to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, PASSED OVER the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the PASCHAL LAMB.
Página 12 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.