# A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

Author: Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886; Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson), 1842-1916 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Language & Communication

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70210

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## Summary

Lincoln spake what was fit for comfort, and did what he was able for redress. He looked like the lanthorn in the _admiral_, by which the rest of the fleet did steer their course.--HACKET, _Life of Archbishop Williams_, part ii. p. 143.

## Chapters

- [xii. 42), either to the members of a household, to soldiers, or to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/8/index.md)
- [act v. sc. 3.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/3/index.md)
- [act i. sc. 1.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/5/index.md)
- [ix. 5), are perplexed, for they cannot help feeling that there is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/9/index.md)
- [act iii. sc. 3.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/1/index.md)
- [part i. p. 196.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/2/index.md)
- [xv. 13); but the one would have been as free to our early writers as](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/4/index.md)
- [part i. § 5.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/7/index.md)
- [part ii.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-select-glossary-of-english-words-used-formerly-in-senses-diff-4414690b/chapters/6/index.md)