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Affiliation. n.s. [from ad and filius, Lat.] Adoption; the act of taking a son. Chambers. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/affilia...
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Headlong. adj. 1. Steep; precipitous. 2. Rash; thoughtless. 3. Sudden; precipitate. It suddenly fell from an excess of favour, which, many examples having taught them, never stopt his race ’till it came to a headlong overthrow. Sidney. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/headlon...
Burgess. n.s. [bourgeois, Fr.] 1. A citizen; a freeman of a city, or corporate town. 2. A representative of a town corporate. The whole case was dispersed by the knights of shires, and burgesses of towns, through all the veins of the land. Wotton. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/burgess...
Fe'eler. n.s. [from feel.] 1. One that feels. 2. The horns or antennæ of insects. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/feeler_ns
Secant. n.s. [secans, Lat. secante, Fr.] In geometry, the right line drawn from the centre of a circle, cutting and meeting with another line called the tangent without it. Dict. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/secant_ns
After-endeavour. n.s. [from after and endeavour.] Endeavours made after the first effort or endeavour. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/after-e...
CARBONADO. n.s. [carbonnade, Fr. from carbo, a coal, Lat.] Meat cut across, to be broiled upon the coals. If I come in his way willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. Shakespeare. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/carbona...
MUSICK. n.s. [μουσιϰὴ; musique, Fr.] 1. The science of harmonical sounds. 2. Instrumental or vocal harmony. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/musick_ns
Audibleness. n.s. [from audible.] Capableness of being heard. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/audible...
Coil. n.s. [kolleren, Germ.] 1. Tumult; turmoil; bustle; stir; hurry; confusion. 2. A rope wound into a ring. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/coil_ns
Segregation. n.s. [segregation, Fr. from segregate.] Separation from others. What shall we hear of this? ———— A segregation of the Turkish fleet; For do but stand upon the foaming shore, The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak. Othello. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/segrega...
Dungy. adj. [from dung.] Full of dung; mean; vile; base; low; odious; worthless. If it be so, We need no grave to bury honesty; There’s not a grain of it, the face to sweeten Of the whole dungy earth. Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/dungy_adj
Impierceable. adj. [in and pierce.] Impenetrable; not to be pierced. Exceeding rage inflam’d the furious beast; For never felt his impierceable breast So wond’rous force from hand of living wight. Spenser. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/impierc...
QUELQUECHOSE. [French.] A trifle; a kickshaw. From country grass to comfitures of court, Or city’s quelquechoses, let not report My mind transport. Donne. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/quelque...
Insincere. adj. [insincerus, Lat. in and sincere.] 1. Not what he appears; not hearty; dissembling; unfaithful: of persons. 2. Not sound; corrupted: of things. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/insince...
To Espy. v.n. To watch; to look about. Stand by the way and espy; ask him that fleeth what is done. Jer. xlvii. 19. buff.ly/onuHmvN
To Interclude. v.n. [intercludo, Latin.] To shut from a place or course by something intervening; to intercept. The voice is sometimes intercluded by a hoarseness, or viscuous phlegm cleaving to the aspera arteria. Holder. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/intercl...
Patriotism. n.s. [from patriot.] Love of one’s country; zeal for one’s country. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/patriot...
Gla'dly. adv. [from glad.] Joyfully; with gayety; with merriment; with triumph; with exultation. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/gladly_...
To Hyp. v.a. [barbarously contracted from hypochondriack.] To make melancholy; to dispirit. I have been, to the last degree, hypped since I saw you. Spectator. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/hyp_va
Edentated. adj. [edentatus, Latin.] Deprived of teeth. Dict. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/edentat...
Horsebreaker. n.s. [horse and break.] One whose employment it is to tame horses to the saddle. Under Sagittarius are born chariot-racers, horsebreakers, and tamers of wild beasts. Creech. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/horsebr...
Mimically. adv. [from mimical.] In imitation; in a mimical manner. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/mimical...
Cloudcompelling. adj. [A word formed in imitation of νεφεληγέϱετης, ill understood.] An epithet of Jupiter, by whom clouds were supposed to be collected. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/cloudco...
Accounting. n.s. [from account.] The act of reckoning, or making up of accounts. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/account...
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Crumenal. n.s. [from crumena, Latin.] A purse. The fat ox, that woonnt ligye in the stall, Is now fast stalled in her crumenal. Spenser’s Pastorals. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/crumena...
To Unfrequent. v.a. To leave; to cease to frequent. A bad word. Glad to shun his hostile gripe, They quit their thefts, and unfrequent the fields. Philips. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/unfrequ...
Breviary. n.s. [breviaire, Fr. breviarium, Lat.] 1. An abridgment; epitome; a compendium. Cresconius, an African bishop, has given us an abridgment, or breviary thereof. Ayliffe. 2. The book containing the daily service of the church of Rome. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1773/breviar...