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...INVENTION OF THE CROSS: Concerning the Inventio sanctae crucis, see Smith, Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Vol. I, p. 503. 2 4 NATIONAL RESUL T: ... ...osed to a “gownsman.” Cf. Gradus ad Cantabrigiam (1824), quoted in Century Dictionary: “Snobs.—A term applied in- discriminately to all who have not t... ...re, Rajahs and Omrahs in his train. Omrah, which is not found in Century Dictionary, is itself really plural of Arabic amir (ameer), a commander, no... ...ick oatmeal gruel or porridge used by seamen. According to the New English Dictionary the derivation is unknown; but in the Athenaeum, Oct. 6, 1888, q...

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...djoon), which I have learned from Anastasius; and as I had neither a Malay dictionary nor even Adelung’s Mithridates, which might have helped me to a ...

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...w that ‘Misi Mea’ has had another letter, and this time had to answer himself; think of doing so in a language so obscure to me, with the aid of a Bib...

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...s, I have had by me, while at work on this subject, the copy of Cotgrave’s Dictionary, 9 Montaigne folio, 1650, which belonged to Cotton. It has his ... ...h, as that he has piles in his posteriors, till first he has consulted his dictionary, what piles and what posteriors are. We take other men’s knowled...

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...now, like a monarch with a troop of dwarfs, too many jesters kick- ing the dictionary about, to let them reflect that they are dull, occasionally, lik...

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...far. “Ah that’s because you’ve no sympathy!” The girl gave an ironic laugh, only retorting that no- body could have any who had to count all day all t...

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...k of that superb indifference to mortal limi- tation that set him upon his dictionary, and carried him through triumphantly until the end! Who, if he ...

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...h esteem you most? ‘The King’s,’ said I. But the best words?—’Oh, sir, the Dictionary.’ You miss my aim; I mean the most acute ...

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...nor Addison read any thing for the latter years of their lives but Bayle’s Dictionary. And most of the little scintillations of erudition, which may b... ...ed one phrase to the colloquial idiom; with respect to Shakspeare, a large dictionary might be made of such phrases as “win golden opinions,” “in my m...

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...“Mensch,” man; and also “Fressen,” which last I looked up afterwards in my dictionary. It means “Devour.” Hermann seemed to be re- questing an answer ...

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... it is, reader, that you have heard of such a word as jentaculum; and your dictionary translates that old heathen word by the Christian word breakfast... ...ll up by the second; and that is often re- puted to be dinner. And as your dictionary, good reader, trans- 147 lated breakfast by that vain word jent...

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...or a ride down all history, whether you and I like it or not. Every pocket dictionary knows that Erostratus was that scamp. So of Martin, the man that... ... I believe, been said more than once in print that one condition of a good dictionary would be to exhibit the history of each word; that is, to record...

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...ned the boys. We recall one white mouse, who lived in the cover of a Latin dictionary, who ran up ladders, drew Roman chariots, shouldered muskets, tu...

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...writes such! They are the avoidable kind!—Had Johnson left nothing but his Dictionary, one might have traced there a great intellect, a genuine man. L...

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...stinguished as the ep- och, when Johnson’s arduous and important work, his Dictionary of the Egnlish Language, was announced to the world, by the publ... ... in his brother Robert’s shop, he heard his brother suggest to him, that a Dictionary of the English Language would be a work that would be well recei... ...cally communicated. Johnson told me, ‘Sir, the way in which the Plan of my Dictionary came to 64 Boswell’s Life of Johnson be inscribed to Lord Chest... ...cademy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. Johnson. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; f... ...who at last was at the expense of burying both him and his wife. While the Dictionary was going forward, Johnson lived part of the time in Holborn, pa... ...s in which words were authorised, that one may read page after page of his Dictionary with improvement and pleasure; and it should not pass unob- serv... ... indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour in car- rying on his Dictionary, he answered the stated calls of the press twice a week from the... .... 1751: AETAT. 42.]—In 1751 we are to consider him as carrying on both his Dictionary and Rambler. Though Johnson’s circumstances were at this time fa... ...ouse. 1752: AETAT. 43.]—In 1752 he was almost en- tirely occupied with his Dictionary. The last paper of his Rambler was published March 2, this year;...

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...ons for these terms. Perhaps a better definition can be found in a college dictionary, where the usual definition includes “a struc turally independ...

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... because, for one thing, she answered up so promptly that it seemed like a dictionary speaking, and for another thing, where could they find out wheth... ...fore breakfast, and thrill the domestics with it while it lasts. I have no dictionary, and I do not want one; I can select words by the sound, or by o... ...hat, and on that exclusively. On that exclusively, and with out help of a dictionary. In this way I should surely be well protected against overloadi... ...m the headlines, some times from the text. I have never had to call for a dictionary yet. I read the paper with ease. Often I do not quite under sta... ...and the baffling turns and dodges of the prey make the life of the hunt. A dictionary would spoil it. Sometimes a single word of doubtful purport will... ...lgar and commonplace but for that benefaction. Would you be wise to draw a dictionary on that gracious word? would you be properly grateful? After a c... ... left unsaid on that sub ject that a fervid imagination and an unabridged dictionary could compile, and these they handed to the minister as he enter...

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...re; but that is not because its author, Mr. Ashton Ellis, knows the German dictionary bet- ter than his predecessors. He is simply in possession of Wa...

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...and, reading that in the lady’s countenance, the German drew out an octavo dictionary, and said, perspiring with shame at having a second time missed ... ...e home, of course the poor man was totally wrecked. It turned out that the dictionary he had used (Arnold’s, we think,)—a work of a hundred years back...

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...e silks and damasks by the yard, and exhausted every interjec- tion in the dictionary and out of it expressive of admiration and wonder. The upholster...

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...ederalist? Men and Knitting-women repeat Federaliste, with or without much Dictionary-meaning; but go on repeating it, as is usual in such cases, till...

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...istract our attention from the fact. Also we have smuggled a word into the dictionary which ought not to be there at all—Self Sacrifice. It describes ... ..., high ide als—these, and all the related qualities that are named in the dictionary, are made of the elementals, by blendings, combinations, and sh... ...the giant Biography of William Shakespeare? It would strain the Unabridged Dictionary to hold them. He is a brontosaur: nine bones and six hundred ba... ... I think so. But I ask no one to take my unsupported word; no, look at the dictionary; let the dic tionary decide. Here is the definition: IRREVERENC... ...ee; and there are 300,000,000 Hindus or their equivalents back of him. The dictionary had the acute idea that by using the capital G it could restrict...

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...s this elogium that gave occasion to the reply (taken notice of in Bayle’s Dictionary), which Waller made to King Charles II. This king, to whom W all...

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...these days there shall be written a ‘Godfather’s Assistant,’ in shape of a dictionary of names, with their concomitant virtues and vices; and this boo...

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...r critical capacity.—P . W . 405 ‘Suidas, Gellius, Stobaeus:’ the first a dictionary-writer, a collector of impertinent facts and barbarous words; th...

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...cientific inquiries and inventions centred; *In Dr. Murray’s admirable new dictionary, I have remarked a flaw sub voce Beacon. In its express, technic... ...re, indeed, labours for a Hercules in a dress coat, armed with a pen and a dictionary to depict the passions, armed with a tube of superior flake- whi...