Prin. of E. Gram., 2d Ed., p. 9. (38.) “Gender is a distinction of nouns with regard to sex.”—­Frost’s Gram., p. 7. (39.) “Gender is a distinction of nouns in regard to sex.”—­Perley’s Gram., p. 10. (40.) “Gender is the distinction of nouns, in regard to sex.”—­Cooper’s Murray, 24; Practical Gram., 21. (41.) “Gender is the distinction of nouns with regard to sex.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 37; Alger’s, 16; Bacon’s, 12; R.  G. Greene’s, 16; Bullions, Prin., 5th Ed., 9; his New Gr., 22; Fisk’s, 19; Hull’s, 9; Ingersoll’s, 15. (42.) “Gender is the distinction of sex.”—­Alden’s Gram., p. 9; Comly’s, 20; Dalton’s, 11; Davenport’s, 15; J.  Flint’s, 28; A. Flint’s, 11; Greenleaf’s, 21; Guy’s, 4; Hart’s, 36; Hiley’s, 12; Kirkham’s, 34; Lennie’s, 11; Picket’s, 25; Smith’s, 43; Sanborn’s, 25; Wilcox’s, 8. (43.) “Gender is the distinction of Sex, or the Difference betwixt Male and Female.”—­British Gram., p. 94; Buchanan’s, 18. (44.) “Why are nouns divided into genders?  To distinguish their sexes.”—­Fowle’s True Eng.  Gram., p. 10. (45.) “What is meant by Gender? The different sexes.”—­Burn’s Gram., p. 34. (46) “Gender, in grammar, is a difference of termination, to express distinction of sex.”—­Webster’s Philos.  Gram., p 30; Improved Gram., 22. (47.) “Gender signifies a distinction of nouns, according to the different sexes of things they denote.”—­Coar’s Gram., p. 2. (48.) “Gender is the distinction occasioned by sex.  Though there are but two sexes, still nouns necessarily admit of four distinctions[454] of gender.”—­Hall’s Gram., p. 6. (49.) “Gender is a term which is employed for the distinction of nouns with regard to sex and species.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 41. (50.) “Gender is a Distinction of Sex.”—­Fisher’s Gram., p. 53. (51.) “GENDER marks the distinction of Sex.”—­W.  Allen’s Gram., p. 37. (52.) “Gender means the kind, or sex.  There are four genders.”—­Parker and Fox’s, Part I, p. 7. (53.) “Gender is a property of the noun which distinguishes sex.”—­Weld’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 57. (54.) “Gender is a property of the noun or pronoun by which it distinguishes sex.”—­Weld’s Grammar Abridged, p. 49. (55.) “Case is the state or condition of a noun with respect to the other words in a sentence.”—­Bullion’s, E. Gram., p. 16; his Analyt. and Pract.  Gram., p. 31. (56.) “Case means the different state or situation of nouns with regard to other words.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 55. (57.) “The cases of substantives signify their different terminations, which serve to express the relation of one thing to another.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 12mo, 2d Ed., p. 35. (58.) “Government is the power which one part of speech has over another, when it causes