An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: To which is Added a Vocabulary of Greek, Latin, Scripture, Christian, and Geographical Names, with Their Pronunciation : Together with a Collection of Words and Phrases from Foreign Languages, Often Met with in the Works of English Writers, with Their SignificationWilliam Bolles |
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Page 340 - A kind of walk along the floor of a house, into which the doors of the apartments open ; the upper seats in a church ; the scats in a playhouse above the pit, in which the meaner people sit.
Page 301 - A kind of stool placed at the south side of the altar, at which the kings of England kneel at their coronation.
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Page 350 - A viscous body commonly made by boiling the skins of animals to a gelly, a cement.
Page 308 - FERMENTATION is a slow motion of the intestine particles of a mixed body arising, usually, from the operation of some active acid matter, which rarifies, exalts, and subtilizes the soft and sulphureous particles, as when leaven or yeast lightens and ferments bread or wort.