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6061 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENOUGH.5 (Noah Webster)
[Note. This word, in vulgar language, is sometimes placed before its noun, like most other adjectives. But in elegant discourse or composition, it always follows the noun, to which it refers; as, bread enough; money enough.]
6062 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ERRATUM.1 (Noah Webster)
ERRATUM, n. plu. errata. [See Err .] An error or mistake in writing or printing. A list of the errata of a book is usually printed at the beginning or end, with references to the pages and lines in which they occur.
6063 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESPECIALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
ESPECIALLY, adv. Principally; chiefly; particularly; in an uncommon degree; in reference to one person or thing in particular.
6064 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCEPTING.2 (Noah Webster)
… be referred to a pronoun. Excepted would be better: three excepted; three being excepted.
6065 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXPECT.8 (Noah Webster)
Expect, in its legitimate sense, always refers to a future event. The common phrase, I expect it was, is a vulgar as it is improper.
6066 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXTERIOR.3 (Noah Webster)
2. External; on the outside, with reference to a person; extrinsic. We speak of an object exterior to a man, as opposed to that which is within or in his mind.
6067 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOIBLE.2 (Noah Webster)
… , we refer to a predominant failing. We use also the plural, foibles, to denote moral failings or defects. It is wise in every man to know his own foibles.
6068 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOR.62 (Noah Webster)
… for referring to the sentence following; the latter to the noun cause.
6069 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FRAY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A boil, quarrel or violent riot, that puts men in fear. This is the vulgar word for affray, and the sense seems to refer the word to Fr. effrayer.
6070 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GENERALIZE.2 (Noah Webster)
Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon’s motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
6071 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GENEROSITY.1 (Noah Webster)
GENEROSITY, n. [L. generositas, from genus, race, kind, with reference to birth, blood, family.]
6072 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GLORY.5 (Noah Webster)
In this passage of Peter, the latter word glory refers to the visible splendor or bright cloud that overshadowed Christ at his transfiguration. The former word glory, though the same in the original, is to be understood in a figurative sense.
6073 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GREATNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
… . With reference to solid bodies, however, we more generally use bulk, size, extent or magnitude than greatness; as the bulk or size of the body; the extent of the …
6074 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GROUND.2 (Noah Webster)
… , without reference to the materials which compose it. We apply ground to soil, sand or gravel indifferently, but never apply it to the whole mass of the earth …
6075 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HARVEST.2 (Noah Webster)
… especially refers to the time of collecting corn or grain, which is the chief food of men, as wheat and rye. In Egypt and Syria, the wheat harvest is in April and …
6076 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. He is the man.
6077 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HE.6 (Noah Webster)
3. He is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description. It is then synonymous with any man.
6078 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEAD.38 (Noah Webster)
Head and ears, a phrase denoting the whole person, especially when referring to immersion. He plunged head and ears into the water. He was head and ears in debt, that is, completely overwhelmed.
6079 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HITHER.5 (Noah Webster)
Hither we refer whatever belongs to the highest perfection of man.
6080 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HUNDRED.3 (Noah Webster)
… any reference to that number.]