Volume 1

A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson

Date:: 1755

Credit: A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Ji/xTAfrOsiTlON.. n.f [ juxtapoftipn, French; juxta and po~ fitio, Latin.] Appofition; the date of being plated by each other. Nor can it be a difference, that the parts of folid bodies are held together by hooks, fince the coherence of thefe will be of difficult conception ; and we mult either fuppofe an infinite number of them holding together, or at lad come to parts that are united by a meer juxtapofition. Glanv. Scepf. IV Y. n.f [ips> Saxon; hedera, Latin.] A plant. The characters are; it is a parafitick plapt, fending forth roots or fibres from its branches, by which it is fattened to either trees, walls, or plapts which are near it, and from thence receives a great fhare of its nourishment: the leaves are angular; the flowers, for the molt: part, confilt of fix leaves, and are fucceeded by roupd black berries, which grow in round bundles, each of which, for the mod part, contains four feeds. Miller. A gown made of the fined wool; A belt of draw, and ivy buds. With coral clafps and amber duds ; And if thefe pleafures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love. Ra'eifo, Direct Vjhe clafping ivy where to climb. Milt. Parad. Lojl. Jv'mold. adj. [SeeGiMAL.J Their poor jades Lob down their heads, dropping the hi.de and hips; And in their pale dull mouths the jymo'd bit Lies, foul with chew’d grafs, dill and motionlefs. Spakfpcare's Henry V? r I N# \ K. I /$