A Primary School Dictionary of the English Language: Explanatory, Pronouncing, and Synonymous : with an Appendix Containing Various Useful Tables : Mainly Abridged from the Latest Edition of the American Dictionary of Noah WebsterIvison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1877 - 352 pages |
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... Rules for Spelling " given in the introduction being unusually complete , and the words in the Vocabulary often having figures affixed to them referring to these rules . It will be seen , without ( iii ) iv PREFACE . explanation , how ...
... Rules for Spelling " given in the introduction being unusually complete , and the words in the Vocabulary often having figures affixed to them referring to these rules . It will be seen , without ( iii ) iv PREFACE . explanation , how ...
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... the alterations and improvements which have been made will secure for it an increased degree of favor . DORCHESTER , Mass . , September 2d , 1867 . CONTENTS . KEY TO THE PRONUNCIATION RULES FOR SPELLING ABBREVIATIONS.
... the alterations and improvements which have been made will secure for it an increased degree of favor . DORCHESTER , Mass . , September 2d , 1867 . CONTENTS . KEY TO THE PRONUNCIATION RULES FOR SPELLING ABBREVIATIONS.
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... RULES FOR SPELLING ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS vi vii xii A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 15 to 304 APPENDIX . MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES MODERN BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES COMMON ENGLISH CHRISTIAN NAMES ABBREVIATIONS WORDS , PHRASES ...
... RULES FOR SPELLING ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS vi vii xii A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 15 to 304 APPENDIX . MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES MODERN BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES COMMON ENGLISH CHRISTIAN NAMES ABBREVIATIONS WORDS , PHRASES ...
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... syllables , these marks , besides performing their proper office , supply the place of the hyphen , except in some compound and derivative words . ( vi ) RULES FOR SPELLING CERTAIN CLASSES OF WORDS . FOUNDED ON KEY TO THE PRONUNCIATION.
... syllables , these marks , besides performing their proper office , supply the place of the hyphen , except in some compound and derivative words . ( vi ) RULES FOR SPELLING CERTAIN CLASSES OF WORDS . FOUNDED ON KEY TO THE PRONUNCIATION.
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... rule that chancellor , and the derivatives of metal and crystal , as metalloid , metallurgy , crystalline ... RULES FOR SPELLING . with a vowel : as RULES FOR SPELLING.
... rule that chancellor , and the derivatives of metal and crystal , as metalloid , metallurgy , crystalline ... RULES FOR SPELLING . with a vowel : as RULES FOR SPELLING.
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animal Belonging bird body Capable cause Celt cloth color Consisting costive disease dress earth female fish fluid fruit Full horse instru instrument interj kind land light liquor manner mark marriage means ment metal ness officer pain person Pertaining piece plant prep pron quadruped Quality Relating resembling round sharp ship short shrub side sing sion skilled soft sound stone substance syllable taining Tending thawt thin thing tion tree utter v. i. To grow v. t. imp v. t. To bring v. t. To cover v. t. To draw v. t. To form v. t. To give v. t. To lay v. t. To put v. t. To strike v. t. To take v. t. To throw versed vessel Want wind woman wood words
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Page 339 - Revenons d nos moulons. [Fr.] Let us return to our sheep; let us return to our subject. Rifacimento. [It.] Renewal ; re-establishment. Robe de chambre. [Fr.] A dressing-gown or morninggown. Rouleau. [Fr.] A little roll. Rudis indigesta moles.
Page vii - ... toll, null. The words clef, if, of, and sol, are exceptions. § 2. The letter s, at the end of a monosyllable, and...
Page viii - Apparel, bevel, bowel, cancel, carol, cavil, channel, chisel, counsel, cudgel, dishevel, drivel, duel, embowel, enamel, empanel, equal, gambol, gravel, grovel, handsel, hatchel, imperil, jewel, kennel, label, level, libel, marshal, marvel, model, panel, parcel, pencil, peril, pistol, pommel, quarrel, ravel, revel, rival, rowel, shovel, shrivel, snivel, tassel, iwuuud, travel, tunnel, unravel.
Page 336 - We recognize a Hercules from the size of the foot; that is, we judge of the whole from the specimen.
Page ix - Nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant form their plural by adding es and changing y into i : as, mercy, -mercies ; sky, skies ; pity, pities.
Page 331 - FRSL — Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. FSA — Fellow of the Society of Arts.
Page 340 - Verbatim et literatim, L. Word for word and letter for letter. Verbum sat sapienti, L. A word is enough for a wise man.
Page ix - The cases mentioned in sections 11, 12, and 13 are also exceptions. § 16. Derivatives formed by prefixing one or more syllables to words ending in a double consonant commonly retain both consonants : as, rebuff, befall, inthrall, foretell, fulfil, emboss (from buff, fall, thrall, tell, Jill, boss).
Page 330 - AD, anno Domini, In the year of our Lord. Ad lib., ad libitum, at pleasure.
Page 330 - Chief Justice. Cld. or eld. Cleared. CM Common Meter. Co. Company ; County. COD Cash (or Collect) on Delivery. Col. Colonel ; Colossians. Coll. College; Collector. Сотр. Compare ; Comparative ; Compound. Con. (Contra.) Against; In opposition. Con., or Or.