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6121 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INTEGRITY.3 (Noah Webster)
… special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfers of property, and agencies for others.
6122 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INTERLOCUTORY.4 (Noah Webster)
… chancery referring a question of fact to a court of law, or a judgment on default in a court of law.
6123 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IPECACUANHA.1 (Noah Webster)
… , is referred by Mutis to the Psychotria emetica, but more recently by Brotero to the Callicocca Ipecacuanha, a plant growing in Brazil. These plants have been …
6124 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. It is much used as the nominative case or word to verbs called impersonal; as it rains; it snows. In this case, there is no determinate thing to which it can be referred.
6125 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IT.4 (Noah Webster)
In other cases, it may be referred to matter, affair, or some other word. Is it come to this?
6126 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IT.5 (Noah Webster)
3. Very often, it is used to introduce a sentence, preceding a verb as a nominative, but referring to a clause or distinct member of the sentence. “It is well ascertained, that the figure of the earth is an oblate spheroid.” What is well ascertained?
6127 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEAST.3 (Noah Webster)
Least is often used without the noun to which it refers. “I am the least of the apostles,” that is, the least apostle of all the apostles. 1 Corinthians 15:9 .
6128 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEAVE.19 (Noah Webster)
9. To refer; to commit for decision.
6129 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEND.8 (Noah Webster)
… in reference to money. We lend money upon interest, but never lend a coach or horse for a compensation. We use let.]
6130 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEST.3 (Noah Webster)
The phrase may be thus explained. Ye shall not touch it; that separated or dismissed, ye die. That here refers to the preceding command or sentence; that being removed or not observed, the fact being not so, ye will die.
6131 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAGNITUDE.4 (Noah Webster)
2. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance. In affairs or magnitude, disdain not to take counsel.
6132 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAN.34 (Noah Webster)
10. It is sometimes used indefinitely, without reference to a particular individual; any person; one. This is as much as a man can desire.
6133 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAN.36 (Noah Webster)
… number, referring to an individual. In this respect it does not answer to the French on, nor to the use of man by our Saxon ancestors. In Saxon, man ofsloh, signifies …
6134 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.]
6135 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEAN.42 (Noah Webster)
2. To intend; to purpose; to design, with reference to a future act.
6136 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEANING.3 (Noah Webster)
1. Intention; purpose; aim; with reference to a future act.
6137 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.
6138 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.]
6139 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.
6140 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 …