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 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.''