“Pied, adj. [from pie.] Variegated; partycoloured.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “Pie, [pica, Lat.] A magpie; a party-coloured bird.”—­Ib. “Gluy, adj. [from glue.] Viscous; tenacious; glutinous.”—­Ib. “Gluey, a. Viscous, glutinous.  Glueyness. n. The quality of being gluey.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Old Euclio, seeing a crow-scrat[129] upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for an ill sign.”—­BURTON:  Johnson’s Dict. “Wars are begun by hairbrained[130] dissolute captains.”—­ID.:  ib. “A carot is a well known garden root.”—­Red Book, p. 60.  “Natural philosophy, metaphysicks, ethicks, history, theology, and politicks, were familiar to him.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 209.  “The words in Italicks and capitals, are emphatick.”—­Ib., p. 210.  “It is still more exceptionable; Candles, Cherrys, Figs, and other sorts of Plumbs, being sold by Weight, and being Plurals.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 135.  “If the End of Grammar be not to save that Trouble, and Expence of Time, I know not what it is good for.”—­Ib., p. 161. “Caulce, Sheep Penns, or the like, has no Singular, according to Charisius.”—­Ib., p. 194.  “These busibodies are like to such as reade bookes with intent onely to spie out the faults thereof”—­Perkins’s Works, p. 741.  “I think it every man’s indispensible duty, to do all the service he can to his country.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 4.  “Either fretting it self into a troublesome Excess, or flaging into a downright want of Appetite.”—­Ib., p. 23.  “And nobody would have a child cramed at breakfast.”—­Ib., p. 23.  “Judgeship and judgment, lodgable and alledgeable, alledgement and abridgment, lodgment and infringement, enlargement and acknowledgment.”—­Webster’s Dict., 8vo.  “Huckster, n. s. One who sells goods by retail, or in small quantities; a pedler.”—­Johnson’s Dict.

   “He seeks bye-streets, and saves th’ expensive coach.” 
        —­GAY:  ib., w.  Mortgage.

   “He seeks by-streets, and saves th’ expensive coach.” 
        —­GAY:  ib., w.  By-street.

EXERCISE VII.—­MIXED ERRORS.

“Boys like a warm fire in a wintry day.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 62.  “The lilly is a very pretty flower.”—­Ib., p. 62.  “The potatoe is a native plant of America.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “An anglicism is a peculiar mode of speech among the English.”—­Ib., p. 136.  “Black berries and raspberries grow on briars.”—­Ib., p. 150.  “You can broil a beef steak over the coals of fire.”—­Ib., p. 38.  “Beef’-steak, n. A steak or slice of beef for broiling.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Beef’steak, s. a slice of beef for broiling.”—­Treasury of Knowledge. “As he must suffer in case of the fall of merchandize, he is entitled to the