the ten parts of speech.”—­Nutting cor. “‘Mercy is the true badge of nobility.’ Nobility is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case; and is governed by of.”—­Kirkham cor. “Gh is either silent, as in plough, or has the sound of f, as in laugh.”—­Town cor. “Many nations were destroyed, and as many languages or dialects were lost and blotted out from the general catalogue.”—­Chazotte cor. “Some languages contain a greater number of moods than others, and each exhibits its own as forms peculiar to itself.”—­L.  Murray cor. “A SIMILE is a simple and express comparison; and is generally introduced by like, as, or so.”—­Id. See Inst., p. 233.  “The word what is sometimes improperly used for the conjunction that.”—­Priestley, Murray, et al., cor. “Brown makes no ado in condemning the absurd principles of preceding works, in relation to the gender of pronouns.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “The nominative usually precedes the verb, and denotes the agent of the action.”—­Wm. Beck cor. “Primitive words are those which are not formed from other words more simple.”—­Wright cor. “In monosyllables, the single vowel i always preserves its long sound before a single consonant with e final; as in thine, strive:  except in give and live, which are short; and in shire, which has the sound of long e.”—­L.  Murray, et al. cor. “But the person or thing that is merely spoken of, being frequently absent, and perhaps in many respects unknown to the hearer, it is thought more necessary, that the third person should be marked by a distinction of gender.”—­Lowth, Mur., et al., cor. “Both vowels of every diphthong were, doubtless, originally vocal.  Though in many instances they are not so at present, the combinations in which one only is heard, still retain the name of diphthongs, being distinguished from others by the term improper.”—­L.  Mur., et al. cor. “Moods are different forms of the verb, each of which expresses the being, action, or passion, in some particular manner.”—­Inst., p. 33; A.  Mur. cor. “The word THAT is a demonstrative adjective, whenever it is followed by a noun to which it refers.”—­L.  Mur. cor.

   “The guilty soul by Jesus wash’d,
    Is future glory’s deathless heir.”—­Fairfield cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE IX.—­OF WORDS NEEDLESS.