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... Means of finding , 83 Love , Classical Descriptions of , trans- lated , 111 Luxmore's Observations on Stricture , 202 277 ib . Ossian , Editions of , and Tracts relative to , Ottoman Empire , Travels in , Out - posts , Defence of , 337 ...
... Means of finding , 83 Love , Classical Descriptions of , trans- lated , 111 Luxmore's Observations on Stricture , 202 277 ib . Ossian , Editions of , and Tracts relative to , Ottoman Empire , Travels in , Out - posts , Defence of , 337 ...
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... means are far too scanty . The monuments of that dialect are very few ; and it happens , with regard to many words ... mean only in regard to the gratification and instruction which would have been afforded by the satisfactory etymology ...
... means are far too scanty . The monuments of that dialect are very few ; and it happens , with regard to many words ... mean only in regard to the gratification and instruction which would have been afforded by the satisfactory etymology ...
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... a little farther : " Our English verb To Bar is the Gothic and Anglosaxon verb BAIKAN , Beongan , Birgan , Býrgan ; which means , to defend , to keep safe , to protect , to arm , C4 to Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary . 23.
... a little farther : " Our English verb To Bar is the Gothic and Anglosaxon verb BAIKAN , Beongan , Birgan , Býrgan ; which means , to defend , to keep safe , to protect , to arm , C4 to Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary . 23.
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... means To De- fend : as Gray in his Elegy expresses it " These bones from insult to protect . " It cannot escape you , that the Latin sepelire has the same meaning : for seps or sepes " notat id , quod objectum , prohibet introitum in ...
... means To De- fend : as Gray in his Elegy expresses it " These bones from insult to protect . " It cannot escape you , that the Latin sepelire has the same meaning : for seps or sepes " notat id , quod objectum , prohibet introitum in ...
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... means pledge or pawn , as explained by the synon . wed , • Pl . borrowis . 66 --- Quhair a borgh is foundin in a court vpon a weir of law , that the partie defendar , as to that borgh , sall haue fredome to be auisit , and ask leif ...
... means pledge or pawn , as explained by the synon . wed , • Pl . borrowis . 66 --- Quhair a borgh is foundin in a court vpon a weir of law , that the partie defendar , as to that borgh , sall haue fredome to be auisit , and ask leif ...
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