Tribrach, defined.
Trimeter line, iambic, the measure seldom
used alone; examples of,
—and do., with
diversifications
—trochaic,
examples of
—anapestic,
examples of
—alternated with
the tetram., examp., “The Rose,” of COWP.;
the same
scanned
—dactylic,
examples of. Triphthong, defined
—proper,
do., the only, in Eng.
—improp.,
do.; and the improp. triphthongs named.
Trochaic verse, treated
—Troch. verse,
the stress in
—nature of the
single-rhymed; error of MURR. et al. concerning
the
last syll. in
—how may be changed
to coincide with other measures; how is affected
by retrenchment
—confounded with
iambic by several gramm. and prosodists
—Strictures on
CHURCH., who doubts the existence of the troch.
ord.
of verse
—Troch. verse
shown in its eight measures
—Trochaics,
Eng., the TETRAMETER the most common meas. of
—DR. CAMPB. on
—“Trochaic
of One foot,” account of.
Trochee, or choree, defined.
Tropes, what figures of rhetoric are so called; signif. of the term.
Trow, its signif., and where occurs; in what person and tenses read.
Truisms and senseless remarks, how to be dealt with in gram.
Tutoyant, to what extent prevalent among the French. See Youyouing, &c.
Type or character, two forms of the letters in every kind of.
U.
U, lett., which (as A, E, I, or O) names itself
—its plur. numb.
—sounds properly
its own
—as self-naming,
to what equivalent; requires art. a, and not
an,
before it
—pronounced with
borrowed sound
—long or diphthongal
sound, as yu; sound of slender o or oo,
after r
or rh.
Unamendable imperfections sometimes found in ancient writings, remarks in relation to.
Unauthorized words, use of, as opposed to purity, PREC. concerning.
Unbecoming, adj., from participle compounded, error of using transitively words of this form; such error how corrected.
Uncertain, the part of speech left, see Equivocal, &c.
Unco-passive voice, or form, of the verb, ("Is
being built,”) the use
of. conflicts with the older and better usage of the
lang.
—the subject of,
discussed by BROWN
—the true principle
with respect to, stated.
Underlining words, in preparing manuscripts, to denote Italics &c.
Understood, words said, in technical phrase, to be, what such, (Lat., subaudita)