Milton, MURR. proposed amendment of the “unintelligible” language of a
certain passage of, criticised,
    —­double solec. in a pass, of, noticed,
    —­his poem, L’Allegro, what its versificat.; what the management of
      the orders of its verse,
    —­do., Il Penseroso, what its extent and construction.

Miss or Misses, Mr. or Messrs., what the proper applicat. of, when name and title are to be used together, in a plur. sense.

Mistaken, to be, irregularity of the verb; its import as applied to persons, and as applied to things.

Mimesis, explained; droll examples of.

Minus, plus, versus, via, Lat., use of, in Eng., in partic. constructions.

Mixing of synt. with etymol., the manner of INGERS., KIRKH., et al., censured. Mixture of the forms of style, inelegance of.

Modifications, defined,
    —­sense of the term as employed by BROWN.

Moloss, defined.

Monometer, scarcely constitutes a line, yet is sometimes so placed.
    —­Monometer line, iambic, examples of,
    —­trochaic, do.,
    —­anapestic, do.,
    —­dactylic, an examp. of.

Monopersonal verbs, see Impersonal Verbs.

Monotone, what, and how produced in elocution.

Months and days, names of, appar. proper names, and require capitals,
    —­how best expressed in literary compositions.

Moods of a verb, term defined,
    —­the five, named and defined,
    —­Mood, or MODE, the name.  See Infinitive Mood, Indic.  Mood, &c.

More and most, in ambiguous construction, ("Some people MORE than them,” MURR.,)
    —­how parsed in comparisons of adjectives and adverbs.

Moses, in what characters, is supposed to have written.

Most, for almost, by vulgarism.

Motion, verbs of, with hither, &c., in stead of here.

Much, little, all, &c., as nouns,
    —­preceded by not, too, or other such adv.,
    —­This much, in stead of thus much, DR. BLAIR.

Mulkey, W., strictures on his system of orthoepy.

Multiplication, subject of the verb in, see Abstract Numbers.

Multiplicative numerals, as running on in a series; how written above decuple or tenfold.

Multitude, noun of, see Collective Noun.

Mute or silent, epithet applied to what letters.
    —­Mutes, what so reckoned; of these, which imperfect. 
    —­Where a letter must be once mute.

My and mine, thy and thine, as duplicate forms of the poss. case, use of.