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... metal ) . Leant . Pleasure . Thread . Read ( past tense ) . Threat . In the foregoing words , ea has the sound of short ě , the following words , it has the long slender sound of Bear . Bearer . Break . Forbear . Forswear . Great ...
... metal ) . Leant . Pleasure . Thread . Read ( past tense ) . Threat . In the foregoing words , ea has the sound of short ě , the following words , it has the long slender sound of Bear . Bearer . Break . Forbear . Forswear . Great ...
Página xlv
... metal . SPA , Spaw . We are indebted for this word to Spa , a town in Germany , famous for its mineral waters . We should , therefore , write Spa . SPINACH , Spinage . The first is to be pre- ferred , because derived from the Latin spin ...
... metal . SPA , Spaw . We are indebted for this word to Spa , a town in Germany , famous for its mineral waters . We should , therefore , write Spa . SPINACH , Spinage . The first is to be pre- ferred , because derived from the Latin spin ...
Página xlvii
... Metal . Pensile . Sum . Veil . Mettle . Root . Knave . Place . Route . Son . Vain . Meter . Nave . Plaice . Sun. Vane . Metre . Rote . Vein . Plain . Knead . Wrote . Stair . Mewl . Plane . Stare . Wade . Need . Mule . Rough . Weighed ...
... Metal . Pensile . Sum . Veil . Mettle . Root . Knave . Place . Route . Son . Vain . Meter . Nave . Plaice . Sun. Vane . Metre . Rote . Vein . Plain . Knead . Wrote . Stair . Mewl . Plane . Stare . Wade . Need . Mule . Rough . Weighed ...
Página lx
... METAL corrupted , and used in a metaphorical sense ; as , a man of mettle . The word STERLING is similarly applied ; as , a sterling friend . MOB . Abbreviated from , and now used instead of MOBILE , the populace , the rabble . Chaucer ...
... METAL corrupted , and used in a metaphorical sense ; as , a man of mettle . The word STERLING is similarly applied ; as , a sterling friend . MOB . Abbreviated from , and now used instead of MOBILE , the populace , the rabble . Chaucer ...
Página lxxxii
... metal- lurgy , & c . ETHNOS , a nation . Ethnic , ethnical , hea- then , & c . ETHOS , custom , manners . Ethics , ethic , ethical , & c . ETUMOS , true . Etymon , etymology , ety- mologist , & c . Eu , well . Eucharist , eulogy ...
... metal- lurgy , & c . ETHNOS , a nation . Ethnic , ethnical , hea- then , & c . ETHOS , custom , manners . Ethics , ethic , ethical , & c . ETUMOS , true . Etymon , etymology , ety- mologist , & c . Eu , well . Eucharist , eulogy ...
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accent ancient animal Athens beat belonging bird body Boeotia called cant language celebrated Ceres cloth coarse coin Colchis color consisting contract corrupt cover Crete daughter denoting derived diphthong disease draw dress female fish flower French fruit give Greek head Hence heraldry Hercules horse insect instrument Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind king language Latin letter light liquor loose manner mark marriage means medicine ment metal motion move musical ness noise one's ornament orthography p. t. and p. p. Pelops person pertaining Phrenology Phrixus Phrygia piece plant Pluto prep Priam Procne pronounced pronunciation quadruped relating resembling round rude sharp ship short skilled soft soldiers sound species stone substance syllable term Thebes Theseus Thessaly thin thing Thrace tion tree turn verb vessel vowel wild wind woman wood words writing
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Página xxxviii - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página xvi - I remember an instance ; when I published the Plan for my Dictionary, Lord Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state ; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one, the best speaker in the House of Lords, the other, the best speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely.
Página xxxviii - Words of one syllable or words of more than one syllable accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Página xxxvii - Of these reformers some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model or standard which is changing while they apply it.
Página xvi - ... affectation. The solemn pronunciation, though by no means immutable and permanent, is yet always less remote from the orthography and less liable to capricious innovation. They have, however, generally formed their tables according to the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse, and concluding that the whole nation combines to vitiate language in one manner, have often established the jargon of the lowest of the people as the model of speech.
Página xxxvii - Such would be the orthography of a new language to be formed by a synod of grammarians upon principles of science. But who can hope to prevail on nations to change their practice, and make all their old books useless? or what advantage would a new orthography procure equivalent to the confusion and perplexity of such an alteration?
Página 361 - CHIMERA ; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bcllerophon.
Página 72 - The measure of length containing three fourths of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun and moon; any of the numbers expressed by single figures.
Página 49 - The term colony, signifies nothing more than a body of people drawn from the mother country, to inhabit some distant place, or the country itself so inhabited.