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 and bareheaded, running through the streets."--Edgeworth cor. "Friends have the entire control of the schoolhouse and dwelling-house." Or:--"of the schoolhouses and dwelling-houses" Or:--"of the schoolhouse and the dwelling-houses" Or:--"of the schoolhouses and the dwelling-house." Or:--"of the school, and of the dwelling-houses." [For the sentence here to be corrected is so ambiguous, that any of these may have been the meaning intended by it.]--The Friend cor. "The meeting is held at the first-mentioned place in Firstmonth; at the last-mentioned, in Secondmonth; and so on."--Id. "Meetings for worship are held, at the same hour, on Firstday and Fourthday." Or:--"on Firstdays and Fourthdays."--Id. "Every part of it, inside and outside, is covered with gold leaf."--Id. "The Eastern Quarterly Meeting is held on the last Seventhday in Secondmonth, Fifthmonth, Eighthmonth, and Eleventhmonth."--Id. "Trenton Preparative Meeting is held on the third Fifthday in each month, at ten o'clock; meetings for worship [are held,] at the same hour, on Firstdays and Fifthdays."--Id. "Ketch, a vessel with two masts, a mainmast and a mizzenmast."--Webster cor. "I only mean to suggest a doubt, whether nature has enlisted herself [either] as a Cis-Atlantic or [as a] Trans-Atlantic partisan."--Jefferson cor. "By large hammers, like those used for paper-mills and fulling-mills, they beat their hemp."--Johnson cor. "ANT-HILL, or ANT-HILLOCK, n. A small protuberance of earth, formed by ants, for their habitation."-- Id. "It became necessary to substitute simple indicative terms called pronames or pronouns."

"Obscur'd, where highest woods, impenetrable   To light of star or sun, their umbrage spread."--Milton cor.

RULE V.--THE HYPHEN.

"Evil-thinking; a noun, compounded of the noun evil and the imperfect participle thinking; singular number;" &c.--Churchill cor. "Evil-speaking; a noun, compounded of the noun evil and the imperfect participle speaking."--Id. "I am a tall, broad-shouldered, impudent, black fellow."--Spect, or ''Joh. cor. "Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend."--Shak''. or ''Joh. cor. "A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyranny."--Sydney or Joh. cor. "He from the many-peopled city flies."--Sandys or Joh. cor. "He many-languaged nations has surveyed."--Pope or Joh. cor. "The horse-cucumber is the large green cucumber, and the best for the table."--Mort''. or ''Joh. cor.'' "The bird of night did sit, even at noon-day, upon the market-place."--Shak. or ''Joh. cor. "These make a general gaol-delivery of souls not for punishment."--South or Joh. cor. "Thy air, thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first."--Shak''. or ''Joh. cor. "His person was deformed to the highest degree; flat-nosed and blobber-lipped."--L'Estr. or Joh. cor. "He that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a blood-shedder."--Ecclus.'', xxxiv, 22. "Bloody-minded, adj., from bloody and mind; Cruel, inclined to bloodshed."--Johnson cor. "Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour."--Shak. or ''Joh. cor. "A young fellow, with a bob-wig and a black silken bag tied to it."--Spect''. or ''Joh. cor. "I have seen enough to confute all the bold-faced atheists of this age."--Bramhall or Joh. cor. "Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound."--Joh. Dict., w. Bolt''. "For what else is a red-hot iron than fire? and what else is a burning coal than red-hot wood?"--Newton or ''Joh. cor. "Poll-evil is a large swelling, inflammation, or imposthume, in the horse's poll, or nape of the neck, just between the ears."--Far''. or ''Joh. cor.''

"Quick-witted, brazen-fac'd, with fluent tongues,   Patient of labours, and dissembling wrongs."--Dryden cor.

RULE VI.--NO HYPHEN.

"From his fond parent's eye a teardrop fell."--Snelling cor. "How great, poor jackdaw, would thy sufferings be!"--Id. "Placed, like a scarecrow in a field of corn."--Id. "Soup for the almshouse at a cent a quart."--Id. "Up into the watchtower get, and see all things despoiled of fallacies."--Donne or ''Joh. cor. "In the daytime she [Fame] sitteth in a watchtower, and flieth most by night."--Bacon or Joh. cor. "The moral is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction."--Dryd. or Joh. cor. "Madam's own hand the mousetrap baited."--Prior or Joh. cor. "By the sinking of the airshaft, the air has liberty to circulate."--Ray or Joh. cor. "The multiform and amazing operations of the airpump and the loadstone."--Watts or Joh. cor. "Many of the firearms are named from animals."--Johnson cor. "You might have trussed him and all his apparel into an eelskin"--Shak''. or ''Joh. cor. "They may serve as landmarks, to show what lies in the direct way of truth."--Locke or Joh. cor. "A packhorse is driven constantly in a narrow lane and dirty road."--Locke or Joh. cor. "A millhorse, still bound to go in one circle."--Sidney or Joh. cor. "Of singing birds, they have linnets, goldfinches, ruddocks, Canary birds, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers others."--Carew or Joh. cor.'' "Cartridge, a case of paper or parchment filled with gunpowder; [or, rather, containing the entire charge of a gun]."--''Joh. cor.''

"Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,   The time of night when Troy was set on fire,    The time when screechowls cry, and bandogs howl." SHAKSPEARE: in Johnson's Dict., w. Screechowl.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS IN THE FIGURE OF WORDS.

LESSON I.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"They that live in glass houses, should not throw stones."--Adage. "If a man profess Christianity in any manner or form whatsoever."--''Watts cor. "For Cassius is aweary'' of the world."