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Show transcriptDescribing the word horizon Blount writes, 'imagine you stood upon Highgate or the Tower-hill at Greenwich, so far as you may see round about, as in a Circle, where the Heaven seems to touch the earth, that is called the Horizon.'
The word honeymoon (spelt honi moon) is defined in the following way: 'applied to those married persons that love well at first, and decline in affections afterwards; it is hony now, but it will change as the Moon.'
