cor. “When there are any circumstances of time, place, and the like, by which the principal terms of our sentence must be limited or qualified.”—­Blair, Jam. and Mur. cor. “Interjections are words that express emotion, affection, or passion, and that imply suddenness.”  Or:  “Interjections express emotion, affection, or passion, and imply suddenness.”—­Bucke cor. “But the genitive expressing the measure of things, is used in the plural number only.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “The buildings of the institution have been enlarged; and an expense has been incurred, which, with the increased price of provisions, renders it necessary to advance the terms of admission.”—­L.  Murray cor. “These sentences are far less difficult than complex ones.”—­S.  S. Greene cor.

   “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
    They sober lived, nor ever wished to stray.”—­Gray cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE III.—­OF DEFINITIONS.

(1.) “A definition is a short and lucid description of a thing, or species, according to its nature and properties.”—­G.  BROWN:  Rev. David Blair cor. (2.) “Language, in general, signifies the expression of our ideas by certain articulate sounds, or written words, which are used as the signs of those ideas.”—­Dr. Hugh Blair cor. (3.) “A word is one or more syllables used by common consent as the sign of an idea.”—­Bullions cor. (4.) “A word is one or more syllables used as the sign of an idea, or of some manner of thought.”—­Hazen cor. (5.) “Words are articulate sounds, or their written signs, used to convey ideas.”—­Hiley cor. (6.) “A word is one or more syllables used orally or in writing, to represent some idea.”—­Hart cor. (7.) “A word is one or more syllables used as the sign of an idea.”—­S.  W. Clark cor. (8.) “A word is a letter or a combination of letters, a sound or a combination of sounds, used as the sign of an idea.”—­Wells cor. (9.) “Words are articulate sounds, or their written signs, by which ideas are communicated.”—­Wright cor. (10.) “Words are certain articulate sounds, or their written representatives, used by common consent as signs of our ideas.”—­Bullions, Lowth, Murray, et al. cor. (11.) “Words are sounds or written symbols used as signs of our ideas.”—­W.  Allen cor. (12.) “Orthography literally means correct writing”—­Kirkham and Smith cor. [The word orthography stands for different things:  as, 1.  The art or practice of writing words with their proper letters; 2.  That part of grammar which treats of letters, syllables, separate words, and spelling.] (13.) “A vowel is a letter which forms a perfect sound when uttered