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"In the _twenty-seventh_ year of Asa king of Judah, did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah."--_Bible cor._ "In the _thirty-first_ year of Asa king of Judah, began Omri to reign over Israel."--_Id._ "He cannot so deceive himself as to fancy that he is able to do a _rule-of-three_ sum."

Better--"_a sum in the rule of three_."--_Qr. Rev. cor._ "The best cod are those known under the name of _Isle-of-Shoals dun-fish_."--_Balbi cor._ "The soldiers, with _downcast eyes_, seemed to beg for mercy."--_Goldsmith cor._ "His head was covered with a coarse, _wornout_ piece of cloth."--_Id._ "Though they had lately received a reinforcement of a thousand _heavy-armed_ Spartans."--_Id._ "But he laid them by unopened; and, with a smile, said, 'Business _to-morrow_.'"--_Id._ "Chester _Monthly Meeting_ is held at _Moorestown, on_ the _Thirdday_ following the second _Secondday_"--_The Friend cor._ "Eggharbour _Monthly Meeting_ is held _on_ the first _Secondday_."--_Id._ "_Little-Eggharbour_ Monthly Meeting is held at Tuckerton on the second _Fifthday_ in each month."--_Id._ "At three o'clock, on _Firstday_ morning, the 24th of _Eleventhmonth_, 1834,"

&c.--_Id._ "In less than _one fourth_ part of the time usually devoted."--_Kirkham cor._ "The pupil will not have occasion to use it _one tenth_ part _so_ much."--_Id._ "The painter dips his _paintbrush_ in paint, to paint the carriage."--_Id._ "In an ancient English version of the _New Testament_."--_Id._ "The little boy was _bareheaded_."--_Red Book cor._ "The man, being a little _short-sighted_, did not immediately know him."--_Id._ "_Picture-frames_ are gilt with gold."--_Id._ "The _parkkeeper_ killed one of the deer."--_Id._ "The fox was killed near the _brickkiln_."--_Id._ "Here comes Esther, with her _milkpail_"--_Id._ "The _cabinet-maker_ would not tell us."--_Id._ "A fine _thorn-hedge_ extended along the edge of the hill."--_Id._ "If their private interests should be _everso_ little affected."--_Id._ "Unios are _fresh-water_ shells, vulgarly called _fresh-water_ clams."--_Id._

"Did not each poet mourn his luckless doom, Jostled by pedants out of _elbow-room_."--_Lloyd cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The captive hovers _a while_ upon the sad remains."--_Johnson cor._ "Constantia saw that the _hand-writing_ agreed with the contents of the letter."--_Id._ "They have put me in a silk _night-gown_, and a gaudy _foolscap_"--_Id._ "Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, _numb-skulled ninny-hammer_ of yours from ruin, and all his family?"--_Id._ "A noble, (that is, six shillings and _eight pence_,) is [paid], and usually hath been paid."--_Id._ "The king of birds, _thick-feathered_, and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east and west."--_Id._ "_To-morrow_. This--supposing _morrow_ to mean _morning_, as it did originally--is an idiom of the same kind as _to-night, to-day_."--_Johnson cor._ "To-day goes away, and to-morrow comes."--_Id._ "Young children, who are tried in _Gocarts_, to keep their steps from sliding."--_Id._ "Which, followed well, would demonstrate them but _goers-backward_"--_Id._ "Heaven's _golden-winged_ herald late he saw, to a poor Galilean virgin sent."--_Id._ "My _pent-house eyebrows_ and my shaggy beard offend your sight."--_Id._ "The hungry lion would fain have been dealing with good _horseflesh_."--_Id._ "A _broad-brimmed_ hat ensconsed each careful head."--_Snelling cor._ "With harsh vibrations of his _three-stringed lute_."--_Id._ "They magnify a _hundred-fold_ an author's merit."--_Id._ "I'll nail them fast to some _oft-opened_ door."--_Id._ "Glossed over only with _saintlike_ show, still thou art bound to vice."--_Johnson's Dict., w. Saintlike_. "Take of aqua-fortis two ounces, of _quicksilver_ two drachms."--_Id. cor._ "This rainbow never appears but when it rains in the _sunshine_."--_Id. cor._

"Not but there are, who merit other palms; Hopkins and _Sternhold_ glad the heart with _psalms_."--_Pope_.

CHAPTER IV.--OF SPELLING.

CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

RULE I.--FINAL F, L, OR S.

"He _will_ observe the moral law, in _his_ conduct."--_Webster corrected_.

"A _cliff_ is a steep bank, or a precipitous rock."--_Walker cor._ "A needy man's budget is _full_ of schemes."--_Maxim cor._ "Few large publications, in this country, _will_ pay a printer."--_N. Webster cor._ "I _shall_, with cheerfulness, resign my other papers to oblivion."--_Id._ "The proposition _was_ suspended _till_ the next session of the legislature."--_Id._ "Tenants for life _will_ make the most of lands for themselves."--_Id._ "While every thing _is_ left to lazy negroes, a state _will_ never be _well_ cultivated."--_Id._ "The heirs of the original proprietors _still_ hold the soil."--_Id._ "Say my annual profit on money loaned _shall_ be six per cent."--_Id._ "No man would submit to the drudgery of business, if he could make money _as_ fast by lying _still_."--_Id._ "A man may _as well_ feed himself with a bodkin, _as_ with a knife of the present fashion."--_Id._ "The clothes _will_ be ill washed, the food _will_ be badly cooked; you _will_ be ashamed of your wife, if she _is_ not ashamed of herself."--_Id._ "He _will_ submit to the laws of the state while he _is_ a member of it."--_Id._ "But _will_ our sage writers on law forever think by tradition?"--_Id._ "Some _still_ retain a sovereign power in their territories."--_Id._ "They _sell_ images, prayers, the sound of _bells_, remission of sins, &c."--_Perkins cor._ "And the law had sacrifices offered every day, for the sins of _all_ the people."--_Id._ "Then it may please the Lord, they _shall_ find it to be a restorative."--_Id._ "Perdition is repentance put _off till_ a future day."--_Maxim cor._ "The angels of God, who _will_ good and cannot _will_ evil, have nevertheless perfect liberty of _will_."--_Perkins cor._ "Secondly, this doctrine cuts off the excuse of _all_ sin."--_Id._ "_Knell_, the sound of a bell rung at a funeral."--_Dict. cor._

"If gold with _dross_ or grain with _chaff_ you find, Select--and leave the _chaff_ and _dross_ behind."--_G. Brown_.

RULE II.--OTHER FINALS.

"The _mob_ hath many heads, but no brains."--_Maxim cor._ "_Clam_; to clog with any glutinous or viscous matter."--See _Webster's Dict._ "_Whur_; to pronounce the letter _r_ with too much force." "_Flip_; a mixed liquor, consisting of beer and spirit sweetened." "_Glyn_; a hollow between two mountains, a glen."--See _Walker's Dict._ "_Lam_, or _belam_; to beat soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon."--See _Red Book_. "_Bun_; a small cake, a simnel, a kind of sweet bread."--See _Webster's Dict._ "_Brunet_, or _Brunette_; a woman with a brown complexion."--See _ib._, and _Scott's Dict._ "_Wadset_; an ancient tenure or lease of land in the Highlands of Scotland."--_Webster cor._ "To _dod_ sheep, is to cut the wool away about their tails."--_Id._ "In aliquem arietare. _Cic._ To run full _butt_ at one."--_W. Walker cor._ "Neither your policy nor your temper would _permit_ you to kill me."--_Phil. Mu. cor._ "And _admit_ none but his own offspring to fulfill them."--_Id._ "The _sum_ of all this dispute is, that some make them Participles."--_R. Johnson cor._ "As the _whistling_ winds, the _buzz_ and _hum_ of insects, the _hiss_ of serpents, the _crash_ of falling timber."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 331. "_Van_; to winnow, or a fan for winnowing."--See _Scott_. "Creatures that _buzz_, are very commonly such as will sting."--_G. Brown_. "_Beg_, buy, or borrow; _but_ beware how yon find."--_Id._ "It is better to have a house to _let_, than a house to _get_." "Let not your tongue _cut_ your throat."--_Precept cor._ "A little _wit_ will save a fortunate man."--_Adage cor._ "There is many a _slip_ 'twixt the cup and the _lip_."--_Id._ "Mothers' darlings make but _milksop_ heroes."--_Id._ "One eye-witness is worth _ten_ hearsays."--_Id._

"The judge shall _job_, the bishop bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown."

POPE: _in Johnson's Dict., w. Job_.

RULE III.--DOUBLING.

"Friz, to curl; _frizzed_, curled; _frizzing_, curling."--_Webster cor._ "The commercial interests served to foster the principles of _Whiggism_."--_Payne cor._ "Their extreme indolence _shunned_ every species of labour."--_Robertson cor._ "In poverty and _strippedness_, they attend their little meetings."--_The Friend cor._ "In guiding and _controlling_ the power you have thus obtained."--_Abbott cor._ "I began, Thou _begannest_ or _beganst_, He began, &c."--_A. Murray cor._ "Why does _began_ change its ending; as, I began, Thou _begannest_ or _beganst_?"--_Id._ "Truth and conscience cannot be _controlled_ by any methods of coercion."--_Hints cor._ "Dr. Webster _nodded_, when he wrote _knit, knitter_, and _knitting-needle_, without doubling the _t_."--_G.

Brown_. "A wag should have wit enough to know when other wags are _quizzing_ him." "_Bonny_; handsome, beautiful, merry."--_Walker cor._ "_Coquettish; practising_ coquetry; after the manner of a jilt."--See _Worcester_. "_Pottage_; a species of food made of meat and vegetables boiled to softness in water."--See _Johnson's Dict._ "_Pottager_; (from _pottage_;) a porringer, a small vessel for children's food." "Compromit, _compromitted, compromitting_; manumit, manumitted, manumitting."--_Webster cor._ "_Inferrible_; that may be inferred or deduced from premises."--_Walker_. "Acids are either solid, liquid, or _gasseous_."--_Gregory cor._ "The spark will pass through the interrupted space between the two wires, and explode the _gasses_."--_Id._ "Do we sound gasses and _gasseous_ like _cases_ and _caseous_? No: they are more like _glasses_ and _osseous_."--_G. Brown_. "I shall not need here to mention _Swimming_, when he is of an age able to learn."--_Locke cor._ "Why do lexicographers spell _thinnish_ and _mannish_ with two Ens, and _dimmish_ and _rammish_ with one Em, each?"--_G. Brown._ "_Gas_ forms the plural regularly, _gasses_."--_Peirce cor._ "Singular, _gas_; Plural, _gasses_."--_Clark cor._ "These are contractions from _shedded, bursted_."--_Hiley cor._ "The Present Tense denotes what is _occurring_ at the present time."--_Day cor._ "The verb ending in _eth_ is of the solemn or antiquated style; as, He loveth, He walketh, He _runneth_."--_Davis cor._

"Thro' Freedom's sons no more remonstrance rings, Degrading nobles and controlling kings."--_Johnson_.

RULE IV--NO DOUBLING.

"A _bigoted_ and tyrannical clergy will be feared."--See _Johnson, Walker_, &c. "Jacob _worshiped_ his Creator, leaning on the top of his staff."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 165. "For it is all _marvellously_ destitute of interest."--See _Johnson, Walker_, and _Worcester_. "As, box, boxes; church, churches; lash, lashes; kiss, kisses; rebus, _rebuses_."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 40. "_Gossiping_ and lying go hand in hand."--See _Webster's Dict., and Worcester's, w. Gossiping_. "The substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular industry, _gossiped_ by the present precious Secretary _at_ [of] war, in Payne the bookseller's shop."--_Tooke's Diversions_, Vol. i, p. 187.

"_Worship_ makes _worshiped, worshiper, worshiping_; _gossip, gossiped, gossiper, gossiping_; _fillip, filliped, filliper, filliping_."--_Web.

Dict._ "I became as _fidgety_ as a fly in a milk-jug."--See _ib._ "That enormous error seems to be _riveted_ in popular opinion." "Whose mind is not _biased_ by personal attachments to a sovereign."--See _ib._ "Laws against usury originated in a _bigoted_ prejudice against the Jews."--_Webster cor._ "The most _critical_ period of life is usually between thirteen and seventeen."--_Id._ "_Generalissimo_, the chief commander of an army or military force."--_Every Dict._ "_Tranquilize_, to quiet, to make calm and peaceful."--_Webster's Dict._ "_Pommelled_, beaten, bruised; having pommels, as a sword-hilt."--_Webster et al. cor._ "From what a height does a _jeweller_ look down upon his shoemaker!"--_Red Book cor._ "You will have a verbal account from my friend and fellow _traveller_."--_Id._ "I observe that you have written the word _counselled_ with one _l_ only."--_Ib._ "They were offended at such as _combated_ these notions."--_Robertson cor._ "From _libel_, come _libelled, libeller, libelling, libellous_; from _grovel, grovelled, groveller, grovelling_; from _gravel, gravelled_, and _gravelling_."--_Webster cor._ "_Woolliness_, the state of being woolly."--_Worcester's Dict._ "Yet he has spelled chapelling, bordeller, _medalist, metaline, metalist, metalize_, clavellated, etc, with _ll_, contrary to his rule."--_Webster cor._ "Again, he has spelled _cancellation_ and _snivelly_ with single _l_, and cupellation, pannellation wittolly, with _ll_."--_Id._ "_Oily_, fatty, greasy, containing oil, glib."--_Walker cor._ "_Medalist_, one curious in medals; _Metalist_, one skilled in metals."--_Walker's Rhym. Dict._ "He is _benefited_."--_Webster_. "They _travelled_ for pleasure."--_Clark cor._

"Without you, what were man? A _grovelling_ herd, In darkness, wretchedness, and want enchain'd."--_Beattle cor._

RULE V.--FINAL CK.

"He hopes, therefore, to be pardoned by the _critic_."--_Kirkham corrected_. "The leading object of every _public_ speaker should be, to persuade."--_Id._ "May not four feet be as _poetic_ as five; or fifteen feet as _poetic_ as fifty?"--_Id._ "Avoid all theatrical trick and _mimicry_, and especially all _scholastic stiffness_."--_Id._ "No one thinks of becoming skilled in dancing, or in _music_, or in _mathematics_, or _in logic_, without long and close application to the subject."--_Id._ "Caspar's sense of feeling, and susceptibility of _metallic_ and _magnetic_ excitement, were also very extraordinary."--_Id._ "Authorship has become a mania, or, perhaps I should say, an _epidemic_."--_Id._ "What can prevent this _republic_ from soon raising a literary standard?"--_Id._ "Courteous reader, you may think me garrulous upon _topics_ quite foreign to the subject before me."--_Id._ "Of the _Tonic, Subtonic_, and _Atonic_ elements."--_Id._ "The _subtonic_ elements are inferior to the _tonics_, in all the _emphatic_ and elegant purposes of speech."--_Id._ "The nine _atonics_ and the three abrupt _subtonics_ cause an interruption to the continuity of the _syllabic_ impulse." [526]--_Id._ "On _scientific_ principles, conjunctions and prepositions are [_not_] one [and the same]

part of speech."--_Id._ "That some inferior animals should be able to _mimick_ human articulation, will not seem wonderful."--_L. Murray cor._

"When young, you led a life _monastic_, And wore a vest _ecclesiastic_; Now, in your age, you grow _fantastic_."--_Denham's Poems_, p. 235.

RULE VI.--RETAINING.

"_Fearlessness_; exemption from fear, intrepidity."--_Johnson cor._ "_Dreadlessness_; _fearlessness_, intrepidity, undauntedness."--_Id._ "_Regardlessly_, without heed; _Regardlessness_, heedlessness."--_Id._ "_Blamelessly_, innocently; _Blamelessness_, innocence."--_Id._ "That is better than to be flattered into pride and _carelessness_."--_Id._ "Good fortunes began to breed a proud _recklessness_ in them."--_Id._ "See whether he lazily and _listlessly_ dreams away his time."--_Id._ "It maybe, the palate of the soul is indisposed by _listlessness_ or sorrow."--_Id._ "_Pitilessly_, without mercy; _Pitilessness_, unmercifulness."--_Id._ "What say you to such as these? abominable, accordable, _agreeable_, etc."-- _Tooke cor._ "_Artlessly_; naturally, sincerely, without craft."--_Johnson cor._ "A _chillness_, or shivering of the body, generally precedes a fever."--See _Webster_. "_Smallness_; littleness, minuteness, weakness."--_Walker's Dict., et al._ "_Galless, adj_. Free from gall or bitterness."--_Webster cor._ "_Tallness_; height of stature, upright length with comparative slenderness."--_Webster's Dict._ "_Willful_; stubborn, contumacious, perverse, inflexible."--See _ib._ "He guided them by the _skillfulness_ of his hands."--See _ib._ "The earth is the Lord's, and the _fullness_ thereof."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Ps_. xxiv, 1. "What is now, is but an _amassment_ of imaginary conceptions."--_Glanville cor._ "_Embarrassment_; perplexity, entanglement."--_Walker_. "The second is slothfulness, whereby they are performed slackly and _carelessly_."-- _Perkins cor._ "_Installment_; induction into office, part of a large sum of money, to be paid at a particular time."--See _Webster's Dict._ "_Inthrallment_; servitude, slavery, bondage."--_Ib._

"I, who at some times spend, at others spare, Divided between _carelessness_ and care."--_Pope cor._

RULE VII.--RETAINING.

"_Shall_, on the contrary, in the first person, simply _foretells_."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 41; _Comly's_, 38; _Cooper's_, 51; _Lennie's_, 26. "There are a few compound irregular verbs, as _befall, bespeak_, &c."--_Ash cor._ "That we might frequently _recall_ it to our memory."--_Calvin cor._ "The angels exercise a constant solicitude that no evil _befall us_."--_Id._ "_Inthrall_; to enslave, to shackle, to reduce to servitude."--_Johnson_. "He makes resolutions, and _fulfills_ them by new ones."--See _Webster_. "To _enroll_ my humble name upon the list of authors on Elocution."--See _Webster_. "_Forestall_; to anticipate, to take up beforehand."--_Johnson_. "_Miscall_; to call wrong, to name improperly."--_Webster_. "_Bethrall_; to enslave, to reduce to bondage."--_Id._ "_Befall_; to happen to, to come to pass."--_Walkers Dict._ "_Unroll_; to open what is rolled or convolved."--_Webster's Dict._ "_Counterroll_; to keep copies of accounts to prevent frauds."--See _ib._ "As Sisyphus _uprolls_ a rock, which constantly overpowers him at the summit."--_G. Brown_. "_Unwell_; not well, indisposed, not in good health."--_Webster_. "_Undersell_; to defeat by selling for less, to sell cheaper than an other."--_Johnson_. "_Inwall_; to enclose or fortify with a wall."--_Id._ "_Twibill_; an instrument with two bills, or with a point and a blade; a pickaxe, a mattock, a halberd, a battleaxe."--_Dict. cor._ "What you _miscall_ their folly, is their care."--_Dryden cor._ "My heart will sigh when I _miscall_ it so."--_Shak. cor._ "But if the arrangement _recalls_ one set of ideas more readily than an other."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. i, p. 334.

"'Tis done; and since 'tis done, 'tis past _recall_ And since 'tis past _recall_, must be forgotten."--_Dryden cor._

RULE VIII.--FINAL LL.

"The righteous is taken away from the _evil_ to come."--_Isaiah_, lvii, 1.

"_Patrol_; to go the rounds in a camp or garrison, to march about and observe what passes."--See _Joh. Dic._ "_Marshal_; the chief officer of arms, one who regulates rank and order."--See _ib._ "_Weevil_; a destructive grub that gets among corn."--See _ib._ "It much _excels_ all other studies and arts."--_W. Walker cor._ "It is _essential_ to all magnitudes, to be in one place."--_Perkins cor._ "By nature I was thy _vassal_, but Christ hath redeemed me."--_Id._ "Some being in want, pray for _temporal_ blessings."--_Id._ "And this the Lord doth, either in _temporal_ or _in spiritual_ benefits."--_Id._ "He makes an _idol_ of them, by setting his heart on them." "This _trial_ by desertion serveth for two purposes."--_Id._ "Moreover, this destruction is both _perpetual_ and terrible."--_Id._ "Giving to _several_ men several gifts, according to his good pleasure." "_Until_; to some time, place, or degree, mentioned."--See _Dict._ "_Annul_; to make void, to nullify, to abrogate, to abolish."--See _Dict._ "Nitric acid combined with _argil_, forms the nitrate of _argil_."--_Gregory cor._

"Let modest Foster, if he will, _excel_ Ten metropolitans in preaching well."--_Pope cor._

RULE IX.--FINAL E.

"Adjectives ending in _able_ signify capacity; as, _comfortable, tenable, improvable_."--_Priestly cor._ "Their mildness and hospitality are _ascribable_ to a general administration of religious ordinances."-- _Webster cor._ "Retrench as much as possible without _obscuring_ the sense."--_J. Brown cor._ "_Changeable_, subject to change; _Unchangeable_, immutable."--_Walker cor._ "_Tamable_, susceptive of taming; _Untamable_, not to be tamed."--_Id._ "_Reconcilable, Unreconcilable, Reconcilableness_; Irreconcilable, Irreconcilably, Irreconcilableness."--_Johnson cor._ "We have thought it most _advisable_ to pay him some little attention."-- _Merchant cor._ "_Provable_, that may be proved; Reprovable, _blamable_, worthy of reprehension."--_Walker cor._ "_Movable_ and Immovable, _Movably_ and Immovably, _Movables_ and Removal, _Movableness_ and Improvableness, _Unremovable_ and Unimprovable, _Unremovably_ and Removable, _Provable_ and Approvable, _Irreprovable_ and Reprovable, _Unreprovable_ and Improvable, _Unimprovableness_ and Improvably."--_Johnson cor._ "And with this cruelty you are _chargeable_ in some measure yourself."--_Collier cor._ "Mothers would certainly resent it, as _judging_ it proceeded from a low opinion of the genius of their sex."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "_Tithable_, subject to the payment of tithes; _Salable_, vendible, fit for sale; _Losable_, possible to be lost; _Sizable_, of reasonable bulk or size."--See _Webster's Dict._ "When he began this custom, he was _puting_ and very tender."--_Locke cor._

"The plate, coin, revenues, and _movables_, Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd."--_Shak. cor._

RULE X.--FINAL E.

"_Diversely_; in different ways, differently, variously."--See _Walker's Dict._ "The event thereof contains a _wholesome_ instruction."--_Bacon cor._ "Whence Scaliger _falsely_ concluded that Articles were useless."--_Brightland cor._ "The child that we have just seen is _wholesomely_ fed."--_Murray cor._ "Indeed, _falsehood_ and legerdemain sink the character of a prince."--_Collier cor._ "In earnest, at this rate of _management_, thou usest thyself very _coarsely_."--_Id._ "To give them an _arrangement_ and a diversity, as agreeable as the nature of the subject would admit."--_Murray cor._ "Alger's Grammar is only a trifling _enlargement_ of Murray's little _Abridgement_."--_G. Brown_. "You ask whether you are to retain or _to_ omit the mute _e_ in the _words, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, lodgement, adjudgement_, and _prejudgement_."--_Red Book cor._ "Fertileness, fruitfulness; _fertilely_, fruitfully, abundantly."--_Johnson cor._ "_Chastely_, purely, without contamination; _Chasteness_, chastity, purity."--_Id._ "_Rhymester_, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet."--_Walker, Chalmers, Maunder, Worcester_. "It is therefore a heroical _achievement_ to disposess [sic--KTH] this imaginary monarch."--_Berkley cor._ "Whereby is not meant the present time, as he _imagines_, but the time past."--_R. Johnson cor._ "So far is this word from affecting the noun, in regard to its _definiteness_, that its own character of _definiteness_ or _indefiniteness_, depends upon the name to which it is prefixed."--_Webster cor._

"Satire, by _wholesome_ lessons, would reclaim, And heal their vices to secure their fame "--_Brightland cor._

RULE XI.--FINAL Y.

"Solon's the _veriest_ fool in all the play."--_Dryden cor._ "Our author prides himself upon his great _sliness_ and shrewdness."--_Merchant cor._ "This tense, then, _implies_ also the signification of _debeo_."--_R.

Johnson cor._ "That may be _applied_ to a subject, with respect to something accidental."--_Id._ "This latter author _accompanies_ his note with a distinction."--_Id._ "This rule is defective, and none of the annotators have sufficiently _supplied its deficiencies_."--_Id._ "Though the _fancied_ supplement of Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, and Mariangelus, may take place."--_Ib._ "Yet, as to the commutableness of these two tenses, which is _denied_ likewise, they [the foregoing examples] are _all one_ [; i.e., _exactly equivalent_]"--_Id._ "Both these tenses may represent a futurity, _implied_ by the dependence of the clause."--_Id._ "Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, _shier, shiest, shily, shiness_; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, _slier, sliest, slily, sliness_; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, _drily, driness_."--_Cobb, Webster, and Chalmers cor._ "I would sooner listen to the thrumming of a _dandizette_ at her piano."--_Kirkham cor._ "Send her away; for she _crieth_ after us."--_Matt._, v, 23. "IVIED, _a_. overgrown with ivy."--_Cobb's Dict._, and _Maunders_.