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6101 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANAGE.23 (Noah Webster)
[This word is nearly obsolete in all its applications, unless in reference to horses. We now use management.]
6102 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEAN.42 (Noah Webster)
2. To intend; to purpose; to design, with reference to a future act.
6103 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEANING.3 (Noah Webster)
1. Intention; purpose; aim; with reference to a future act.
6104 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MIND.9 (Noah Webster)
So we speak of a sound mind, a disordered mind, a weak mind, a strong mind, with reference to the active powers of the understanding; and in a passive sense, it denotes capacity, as when we say, the mind cannot comprehend a subject.
6105 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MODERN.1 (Noah Webster)
MODERN, a. [L. modo, and ern, which we find in other Latin words that have reference to time, as in hodiernus, hesternus.]
6106 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MODEST.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Not bold or forward; as a modest maid. The word may be thus used without reference to chastity.
6107 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORAL.2 (Noah Webster)
… with reference to right and wrong. The word moral is applicable to actions that are good or evil, virtuous or vicious, and has reference to the law of God as the …
6108 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORALITY.4 (Noah Webster)
… , without reference to the motives form which they proceed.
6109 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MULTITUDE.6 (Noah Webster)
4. A crowd or throng; the populace; applied to the populace when assembled in great numbers, and to the mass of men without reference to an assemblage.
6110 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MUTUALLY.3 (Noah Webster)
[Note-Mutual and mutually properly refer to two persons or their intercourse; but they may be and often are applied to numbers acting together or in concert.]
6111 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEITHER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. It refers to individual things or persons; as, which road shall I take? Neither, take neither road. The upright judge inclines to neither party. It is used as a substitute; as, the upright judge inclines to neither of the parties.
6112 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEITHER.4 (Noah Webster)
2. It refers to a sentence; as, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it. That is, ye shall not eat, not either or other shall ye touch it; ye shall not eat, nor shall ye do the other thing here mentioned, that is, touch it. Genesis 3:3 .
6113 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEITHER.6 (Noah Webster)
… clause refers only to that clause, and the second negative refers only to the second clause. Ye shall not eat it, nor shall ye touch it. In the sentences above …
6114 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEITHER.7 (Noah Webster)
3. Neither primarily refers to two; not either of two. But by usage it is applicable to any number, referring to individuals separately considered. Five or ten persons being charged with a misdemeanor or riot, each may say, neither of us was present.
6115 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEVER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time. It refers to the past or the future. This man was never at Calcutta; he will never be there.
6116 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOTWITHSTANDING.1 (Noah Webster)
… . That refers to the former part of the sentence, I will rend the kingdom from thee; notwithstanding that (declaration or determination,) in thy days I will not …
6117 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOTWITHSTANDING.4 (Noah Webster)
… may refer to a single word, to a sentence or to a series of sentences.
6118 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOW.16 (Noah Webster)
7. Now sometimes refers to a particular time past specified or understood, and may be defined, at that time. He was now sensible of his mistake.
6119 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NUMBER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating; as, one is the first number; a simple number.
6120 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NUMBER.15 (Noah Webster)
Determinate number, is that referred to a given unit, as a ternary or three; an indeterminate number, is referred to unity in general, and called quantity.