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Search phrase: log

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Tempest	Tem III.i.1.1	Enter Ferdinand, bearing a log	Enter Ferdinand (bearing a Log.)
The Tempest	Tem III.ii.90	Having first seized his books; or with a log	Hauing first seiz'd his bookes: Or with a logge

Poems

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Glossary

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Althaea	[al'thaya] mother of Meleager, whose life-span was determined by the preservation of a magic log; when Althaea burnt the log on a fire, Meleager died
cate-log	[idiosyncratic pronunciation of] catalogue, inventory, register
chronicle	register, log, put on record [as]
Dun	horse's name [involving the lifting of a log ‘horse’ in a Christmas game called ‘drawing dun out of the mire’]
Meleager	[pron: melee'ager] son of Althaea, his life-span determined by an unburnt magic log; he murdered his uncles in a quarrel over the killing of a boar ravaging the fields in Calydon; in her rage Althaea burnt Meleager’s log on a fire, and he died
set	log, make note, put on record

Thesaurus

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burning a log	Meleager
log	chronicle
log	set

Themes and Topics

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Classical mythology

...etermined by the preservation of a magic log when althaea burnt the...
... when althaea burnt the log on a fire meleager died meleager be...
...life-span determined by an unburnt magic log he murdered his uncles in a quarrel ove...
... her rage althaea burnt meleager&rsquo s log on a fire and he died menelaus...

Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
LOG	BASIC	log n
LOG	GAME	loggats n
LOG	PEOPLE	loggerhead n, loggerheaded adj, log-man n

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