A New General English Dictionary (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1771 Excerpt: ...(S.) a particular plant that twircs about trees, as the oak, sticks close to wall'. 01 creep uDon the ground, according to us skua' tton, for its support: it is an ever-green, and was f-rmeilv consecrated to B-tcibus, whose votaries had the form of an ivy leaf impressed upon them with an hot iron. J'XWORTH (S ) in Sffcik, a small town, whose market Is weekly on Frid-.iy; distant m Lonu'en 4 computed, and 74 measured miles. adding K to it, as muf.tt, arithmetic, Qf and therefore I shall deem it a distinct ktter- upon account of the Hebrew names in;hBible, as Kadejb, Csfc. In our Alphabet, it is the tenth letter, and a great number of words that are begun with K, others begin with C, as Katberine, or Catberinet C, . simply, as a numeral it stood tor 150, but with dash over it, thus K, 150,000. KAA'RL CAT (S.) a country word for 1 mi'e or boar cat. KAB (S a Hebrew measure, holding abo-at our pint. KA'BIN or KE'BIN (S.) a temporary sort of marriage permitted in Turkey and Asia, by which a man may take a woman to him tor his wife for any particular certain time limited, by entering his promise before the cadi, of giving her a turn of money agreed upon, at his leaving her, or at the expiration of the time limited. KA'LKNDAR (S.) a diary, almanick, orepberaerii, that shews the several day- of the week, month, year, Stc. KA'LBNDS (SO the name of the first day of eveiy men'h, according to the Roman computation of time j their month consisted of ijle-Ji, nones, and ides, for the understanding os which we are to observe, 1. That betwixt the nones and idea there is always a week's interval, i. That only the balenJi are fried to a certain time of beginning, the nones falling lometimes at one time and sometimes at another, the greate.t difficulty being upon...