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ADJECTIVES Adverbs aleuromancy ancient Aoyos aros Athens bird-lime body botany bronchia burn called colour compounded corrupt dark deceit declension denoting derived the Lat discourse disease earth English erysipelas euroclydon feast formerly genitive genus genus of plants Greek hair hyperbaton juice kind marrow medicine moon muse name given noise ochlocracy Odontalgia ov whence ovos palæstra particle patronymics pounded priv resemblance river root selenography signifies skin sleep song speak stammer stone SUBSTANTIVES syllable term applied thing tion treatise tree trepan vdwp verb vessel voice whence whence the Lat word write ypapw α ον ας άσω ατος δν εία εν έρος εσσα έως ης ήσω κα ίδος λῶ ξω χα ὸν ος ου ου ου ῥέω ρῶ σω τίθημι ψω φα ων ώνη ῶνος жо фа ка фо фа עס
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Sida 22 - A circle of knowledge ; a course of the sciences. CY'CLOPS. s. A fabled race of men, of gigantic stature, who inhabited the western part of Sicily, and were said to have only one eye, in the middle of the forehead, adj. cyclopean.
Sida 24 - Exodus, eks-o-das, я. departure, journey from a place ; the second book of Moses is so called, because it describes the journey of the Israelites from Egypt.
Sida 40 - Mosaic age, in which, as in the present day, it varied from threescore and ten to fourscore years. In passing through this term, however, we meet with particular epochs at which the body is peculiarly affected, and suffers a considerable alteration. These epochs the Greek physiologists contemplated as five; and from the word cXi/ta£, which signified a gradation, they denominated them climacterics.
Sida 62 - Views, consisting of numerous cards, on which are fragments of landscapes, neatly coloured, and so ingeniously contrived, that any two or more placed together will form a pleasing view, or, if the whole are put on a table at once, will admit of the astonishing number of 20,932,789,888,000 variations : the Cards are fitted up in an elegant box.
Sida 11 - AMPHISCII are the inhabitants of the torrid zone ; so called, because their shadows fall north or south at different times of the year ; the sun being sometimes to the south of them at noon, and at other times to the north. When the sun is vertical, or in the zenith, which happens twice in the year, the inhabitants have no shadow, and are then called ASCII, or shadowless.
Sida 40 - ... years. In passing through this term, however, we meet with particular epochs, at which the body is peculiarly affected, and suffers a considerable alteration. These epochs the Greek physiologists contemplated as five, and from the word к\щ.п%, signifying a gradation, they denominated them climacterics.
Sida 105 - The ancients manufactured cloth out of the fibres of asbestos, for the purpose, it is said, of wrapping up the bodies of the dead when exposed on the funeral pile.
Sida 46 - In this part of the city they who had deserved well of their country were maintained at the public charge.
Sida 64 - Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Sida 58 - Daedalus, an artificer of Athens, who formed the Cretan labyrinth, and invented the auger, axe, glue, plumbline, saw, and masts and sails for ships. Damon, the sincere friend of Pythias.