Webster's High School Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English Language ...American book Company, 1892 - 530 pàgines |
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Webster's High School Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English Language ... Noah Webster Visualització completa - 1892 |
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Pàgina xxi - ACCENT. Accent is a particular stress or effort of voice upon certain syllables of words, which distinguishes them from the others by a greater distinctness and loudness of pronunciation. Accent is of two kinds, primary, as in in-tend', where the full force of the voice is on the last syllable, and...
Pàgina 432 - A syllable, in the spoken language, is one or more elementary sounds pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word.
Pàgina 27 - An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies, or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
Pàgina xxviii - ... when a definite number is mentioned ; pease, the same in bulk, or spoken of collectively ; pennies, the coins, especially when a definite number is mentioned ; pence, the amount reckoned by these coins.
Pàgina xi - Idrd, or'der, ab-hor', ex-hdrt', etc. ; with equivalents, as in extraordinary, georgic, etc. The most generally approved pronunciation here represented by this symbol is identical with that of a (all). The 6 is limited to accented syllables with the r not followed by a vowel or another r in the following syllable of the same word (the case of inflected verbs, as ab-hQr'ring, and the cognate nouns in -er, as nb-hor'rer, excepted) ; while otherwise the vowel is 5, as in fSr'eign, tor'rid, or o, as...
Pàgina xxvii - ... agree, agreed. The cases mentioned in sections 11, 12, and 13 are also exceptions. § 16. Derivatives formed by prefixing one or more syllables to words ending in a double consonant commonly retain both consonants : as, rebuff, befall, inthrall, foretell, fulfil, emboss (from buff, fall, thrall, tell, Jill, boss).
Pàgina 237 - Place defended from the wind ; shelter ; quarter towards which the wind blows, as opposed to that from which it proceeds, —a.
Pàgina 155 - Field (fold), n. A piece of inclosed land ; a wide extent ; an expanse ; a battle ground or battle. — Field day. A day when troops are drawn out for instruction in field exercises ; a day of excitement ; a gala day. — Field marshal. A commander ui an army ; the highest military rank in European armies.
Pàgina 247 - A rhomb; a figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles ; a small cake of sugar, etc., often medicated or flavored.