“If gold with dros or grain
with chaf you find,
Select—and leave
the chaf and dros behind.”—Author.
UNDER RULE II.—OF OTHER FINALS.
“The mobb hath many heads, but no brains.”—Old Maxim.
[FORMULE.—Not proper, because the word “mobb” is here spelled with double b. But, according to Rule 2d, “Words ending in any other consonant than f, l, or s, do not double the final letter.” Therefore, this b should be single: thus, mob.]
“Clamm, to clog with any glutinous or viscous matter.”—Johnson’s Dict. “Whurr, to pronounce the letter r with too much force.”—Ib. “Flipp, a mixed liquor, consisting of beer and spirits sweetened.”—Ib. “Glynn, a hollow between two mountains, a glen.”—Churchill’s Grammar, p. 22. “Lamm, to beat soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon.”—Walker’s Dict. “Bunn, a small cake, a simnel, a kind of sweet bread.”—See ib. “Brunett, a woman with a brown complexion.”—Ib. and Johnson’s Dict. “Wad’sett, an ancient tenure or lease of land in the Highlands of Scotland.”—Webster’s Dict. “To dodd sheep, is to cut the wool away about their tails.”—Ib. “In aliquem arietare, CIC. To run full but at one.”—Walker’s Particles, p. 95. “Neither your policy nor your temper would permitt you to kill me.”—Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 427. “And admitt none but his own offspring to fulfill them.”—Ib., i, 437. “The summ of all this Dispute is, that some make them Participles,” &c.—Johnson’s Gram. Com., p. 352. “As, the whistling of winds, the buz and hum of insects, the hiss of serpents, the crash of falling timber.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 129; Adam’s Lat. Gram., p. 247; Gould’s, 238. “Vann, to winnow, or a fan for winnowing.”—Walker’s Rhyming Dict. “Creatures that buz, are very commonly such as will sting.”—Author