Poetic feet, treated,
    —­(See Iambus, Trochee, &c.)
    —­Poetic foot, of what consists,
    —­Poet. feet, number to be recognized in Eng.,
    —­principal Eng., named and defined,
    —­kinds of, which form ORDERS OF VERSE,
    —­what combinations of, severally form dimeter, trimeter, &c.,
    —­(See Dimeter, Trimeter, &c.)
    —­Poetic collocation of words, in prose, as offending against
      perspicuity, PREC. respecting,
    —­Poetic diction, treated,
    —­in what abounds,
    —­Poetical Peculiarities,

Poetry, as defined by BLAIR,
    —­character of its style,
    —­aim and end of,
    —­exterior distinction of,
    —­why difficult, by a definition, to be distinguished from prose,
    —­inept directions of some grammatists respecting the parsing of,
    —­Poetry, every line in, should begin with a capital,

Points, or stops, the principal, named, and their forms shown,
    —­the purpose of,
    —­length of pauses denoted by,
    —­often variously used in different editions of the same work,
    —­origin of, See Punctuation.

Points of the compass, adjectives for; modes of varying them,

Possession, relation of, see Property.

Possessive case, defined,
    —­Poss. case, how formed
    —­disputes of the earlier grammarians respecting,
    —­CARD. et al. attempt to revive exploded error concerning,
    —­form of,
    —­origin of, in Eng.,
    —­odd notions of some grammarians concerning the regular formation of
    —­exceptions or irregularities in the formation of
    —­Poss. case, PEI. on, criticised
    —­ASH and PRIESTL. on the plur.
    —­use of the two forms of, in pers. pronouns
    —­of the simp. pers. pronouns, grammarians differ with respect to;
      should not be considered mere adjectives
    —­are pronom. adjectives, according to DR. LOWTH and his followers,
    —­whose doctrine BROWN canvasses, also, WEBSTER’S, WILSON’S, MURRAY’S
    —­Poss. case, its equivalence to of and the objective, not a
      sameness of case, (in oppos. to Nix.)
    —­of pronouns, not to be written with apostrophe
    —­of nouns in appos., application of the possessive sign to
    —­by what governed
    —­whether the rule for, has true exceptions
    —­appos. of one with an other, ("For DAVID my SERVANT’S sake,”)
      the construc. examined
    —­appar. in abstract construc., ("All MINE are THINE,”)
    —­as governed by a part, the construc. examined; COROL.
    —­why the governm. of, should be limited to nouns only
    —­whether before a real part., denotes the possession of something
    —­Possessive