As, as subject or object of a verb, its CLASS
    —­with a clause or sentence as anteced., do. As, as relative,
      WEBST. absurd explanation of; CHAND. do.; BULL. denial
    —­to what construc. limited
    —­peculiarities with respect to position
    —­declined
    —­derivation of, from Teuton., DR. JOH.
    —­As follow, as follows, &c., construction of; MURR., himself
      perplexed by TOOKE and CAMPB., delivers dubious instructions
      concerning
    —­Opinion of NIX. and CROMB. concerning. As, as a conjunc., uniting
      words in appos.
    —­between adj. or part. and its noun ("Actions AS such”)
    —­with ellips. of latter term of comparison ("For such AS HE”)
    —­As and than, character and import of
    —­words connected by, generally put in the same case
    —­As
    —­as; as
    —­so; so (preceded by a negative,)
    —­as; so
    —­as (with an infin. following;) correspondents

Asking and exclaiming, simple and appropriate names for the marks of, desirable

Aspirates, see Semivowels

Asterisk, use of. Asterism, do.

Ate, particular words ending in, peculiarities of

Auxiliary, defined
    —­Auxiliary, form of a verb, when preferable to the simp.
    —­verbs, are mostly defective
    —­do., are needful in the conjug. of English verbs
    —­do., inflection of, shown
    —­Auxiliaries used as expletives
    —­Auxiliary, poet. placed after verb

Averse, aversion, whether to be construed with from or to

Avoiding, verbs of, with part. in stead of infin.

Awkwardness, literary, Crit.  N. censuring

Ay, I, assentive adv.
    —­Ay, sometimes improp. written for ah

B.

 B, its name and plur. number
    —­its sound
    —­in what situations silent

Bacchy, described

BE, how varied
    —­CONJUGATED, affirmat. 
    —­Use of the form be for the pres. indic.
    —­Be, ellips. of the infin. often needlessly supposed by ALLEN et
      al.
    —­whether it should be inserted after the verb make
    —­Is, contracted, giving its nom. the same form as that of the poss.
      case ("A WIT’S a feather,” &c., POPE)

Become, &c., whether they demand the auxiliary am or have

Besides, prep., in what cases proper to be used after else or other, in lieu of than

Between, cannot refer to more than two things
    —­Between or betwixt, how differs in use from among or amongst
    —­Between, betwixt, derivation of, from Sax.