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A-BLE accent Anat animal Arch Belonging bird body Capable cause censure Chem church chyle cloth coarse coin color Consisting containing Dictionary diphthong disease doctrine dress earth enclose English English language fish flower fruit FÜL Full genus Gram horse instrument interj kind language letter light manner mark measure medicine ment metal Naut NESS noise nouns orthoëpists pain Partaking perennial plant person Pertaining piece plant prep pron pronounced quadruped Quality rank Relating Resembling Rhet round S. W. P. J. F. Ja salt Shak ship short shrub skin soft sort sound species stone substance syllable thing tion tree v. a. To cover v. a. To form v. a. To give v. a. To place v. a. To put v. n. To grow verbs versed vessel vowel Want words written
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Page 41 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Page 39 - All its joints, its whole articulation, its sinews and its ligaments, the great body of articles, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, numerals, auxiliary verbs, all smaller words which serve to knit together and bind the larger into sentences, these, not to speak of the grammatical structure of the language, are exclusively Saxon.
Page 27 - Verbs of one syllable, ending with a single consonant, preceded by a single, vowel (as plan), and verbs of two or more syllables, ending in the same manner and having the accent on the last syllable...
Page 165 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 39 - Thus, suppose the English language to be divided into a hundred parts; of these, to make a rough distribution, sixty would be Saxon, thirty would be Latin (including of course the Latin which has come to us through the French), five would be Greek; we should thus have assigned ninety-five parts, leaving the other five, perhaps too large a residue, to be divided among all the other languages from which we have adopted isolated words.
Page 25 - Every language has its anomalies, which though inconvenient and in themselves once unnecessary must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things, and which require only to be registered that they may not be increased; and ascertained, that they may not be confounded; but every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities, which it is the duty of the lexicographer to correct or proscribe.
Page 4 - Contains a full vocabulary of 48,000 words. The design has been to give the greatest quantity of useful matter in the most condensed form, to guard against corruptions in writing and speaking the language, to adapt the work to the use of the higher schools and seminaries of learning, and also to make it a convenient manual for families and individuals. Printed from entirely new plates. 688 pages.
Page 25 - GIVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak: and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew : as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.
Page 141 - Day, da', n. the time between the rising and setting of the sun, called the artificial day ; the time from noon to noon, or from midnight to midnight, called the natural day ; light, sunshine ; any time specified and distinguished from other time, Daybreak, da-Wk, n.
Page 39 - ... ligaments, the great body of articles, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, numerals, auxiliary verbs, all smaller words which serve to knit together and bind the larger into sentences, these, not to speak of the grammatical structure of the language, are exclusively Saxon. The Latin may contribute its tale of bricks, yea, of goodly and polished hewn stones to the spiritual building, but the mortar, with all that holds and binds these together, and constitutes them into a house, is Saxon throughout.