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The Horse and His Rider - Page 96
by Sir Francis Bond Head - 1860 - 226 pages
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 4; Volume 228

English periodicals - 1870 - 792 pages
...more, had it selected as a specimen of the doctor's perspicuity, his definition of '; Network : " — " anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." He talks of Johnson's books, his manuscripts, his wig, his loose breeches, with the solemn emphasis...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...be expected to go quite true.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 406. ' See/ftW, under July 20, 1762. ' ' Network. Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.' Reticulated is defined ' Made of network ; formed with interstitial vacuities.' 4 ' That part of my...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...be expected to go quite true.' Pioszi Letters, ii. 406. 1 See/w/, under July 20, 1762. 1 ' Network. Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.' Reticulated is defined ' Made of network ; formed with interstitial vacuities.' 3 ' That part of my...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 8

John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...ancient A mi urn, at the mouth of the Loracina, 24 miles S. by E. of Rome. NETWORK, s. (net and work.) Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections (Shakspeare). NEVA, a river of Russia, which issues from the lake Ladoga, and flows to Petersburg,...
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The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volume 1

English literature - 1823 - 442 pages
...assist the enquirer, two specimens, selected from numerous others, will be sufficient : — " NETWORK. Anything reticulated, or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." • " TWJST. To form by ' ponvpbcetion ; to form by convolution. To be contorted; to be convolved."...
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A Dictionary of the English Language, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English language - 1828 - 860 pages
...NETTLER, (net'-tl-er) ns One who provokes : that which stings or irritates. NETWORK, (net'-wwrk) nt Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. NEVER, (nev'-er) ad. At no time ; in no degree. It seems in some phrases to have the sense of an adjective...
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The Book of Aphorisms

Robert Macnish - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1834 - 236 pages
...net and network. Here they are : " NET — any thing made with interstitial vacuities" — " NETWORK anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." 205 aphorism Su &un&rrti auto Ctoentietf). All sensible Catholics laugh at purgatory and trunsiihst...
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The English Journal of Education, Volume 22

Education - 1863 - 456 pages
...correct to talk about the gravy of an orange. We all remember Dr. Johnson's definition of NETWORK — anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. A cursory examination of school dictionaries and spellingbooks suffices to show that the " old-fashioned...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 105

American periodicals - 1870 - 878 pages
...more, had it selected as a specimen of the doctor's perspicuity, his definition of " Network": — "anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices, between the intersections." He talks of Johnson's books, his manuscripts, his wig, his loose breeches, with the solemn emphasis...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: The duellist, in three books ...

Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 pages
...the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the Church cf England, — opposed to a whig. Network — anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. Cough — A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise — A hateful tax levied...
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