to quiet, to make calm and peaceful.”—­Ib., p. 133.  “Pommeled, beaten, bruised; having pommels, as a sword or dagger.”—­Webster and Chalmers.  “From what a height does the jeweler look down upon his shoemaker!”—­Red Book, p. 108.  “You will have a verbal account from my friend and fellow traveler.”—­Ib., p. 155.  “I observe that you have written the word counseled with one l only.”—­Ib., p. 173.  “They were offended at such as combatted these notions.”—­Robertson’s America, Vol. ii, p. 437.  “From libel, come libeled, libeler, libeling, libelous; from grovel, groveled, groveler, groveling; from gravel, graveled and graveling.”—­See Webster’s Dict. “Wooliness, the state of being woolly.”—­Ib. “Yet he has spelled chappelling, bordeller, medallist, metalline, metallist, metallize, clavellated, &c. with ll, contrary to his rule.”—­Cobb’s Review of Webster, p. 11.  “Again, he has spelled cancelation and snively with single l, and cupellation, pannellation, wittolly, with ll.”—­Ib. “Oilly, fatty, greasy, containing oil, glib.”—­Rhyming Dict. “Medallist, one curious in medals; Metallist, one skilled in metals.”—­Johnson, Webster, Worcester, Cobb, et al. “He is benefitted.”—­Town’s Spelling-Book, p. 5.  “They traveled for pleasure.”—­S.  W. Clark’s Gram., p. 101.

   “Without you, what were man?  A groveling herd,
    In darkness, wretchedness, and want enchain’d.”
        —­Beattie’s Minstrel, p. 40.

UNDER RULE V.—­OF FINAL CK.

“He hopes, therefore, to be pardoned by the critick.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 10.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “critick” is here spelled with a final k.  But, according to Rule 5th, “Monosyllables and English verbs end not with c, but take ck for double c; as, rack, wreck, rock, attack:  but, in general, words derived from the learned languages need not the k, and common use discards it.”  Therefore, this k should be omitted; thus, critic.]

“The leading object of every publick speaker should be to persuade.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 153.  “May not four feet be as poetick as five; or fifteen feet, as poetick as fifty?”—­Ib., p. 146.  “Avoid all theatrical trick and mimickry, and especially all scholastick stiffness.”—­Ib., p. 154.  “No one thinks of becoming skilled in dancing, or in musick, or in mathematicks, or logick, without long and close application to the subject.”—­Ib., p. 152.  “Caspar’s sense of feeling, and susceptibility of metallick and magnetick excitement were also very extraordinary.”—­Ib., p. 238.  “Authorship has become a mania, or, perhaps I should say, an epidemick.”—­Ib., p. 6.  “What can prevent this republick from soon raising a literary standard?”—­Ib.,