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PDF “If gold with dross
or grain with chaff you find,
Select—and leave
the chaff and dross behind.”—G.
Brown.
RULE II.—OTHER FINALS.
“The mob hath many heads, but no brains.”—Maxim cor. “Clam; to clog with any glutinous or viscous matter.”—See Webster’s Dict. “Whur; to pronounce the letter r with too much force.” “Flip; a mixed liquor, consisting of beer and spirit sweetened.” “Glyn; a hollow between two mountains, a glen.”—See Walker’s Dict. “Lam, or belam; to beat soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon.”—See Red Book. “Bun; a small cake, a simnel, a kind of sweet bread.”—See Webster’s Dict. “Brunet, or Brunette; a woman with a brown complexion.”—See ib., and Scott’s Dict. “Wadset; an ancient tenure or lease of land in the Highlands of Scotland.”—Webster cor. “To dod sheep, is to cut the wool away about their tails.”—Id. “In aliquem arietare. Cic. To run full butt at one.”—W. Walker cor. “Neither your policy nor your temper would permit you to kill me.”—Phil. Mu. cor. “And admit none but his own offspring to fulfill them.”—Id. “The sum of all this dispute is, that some make them Participles.”—R. Johnson cor. “As the whistling winds, the buzz and hum of insects, the hiss of serpents, the crash of falling timber.”—Murray’s Gram., p. 331. “Van; to winnow, or a fan for winnowing.”—See Scott. “Creatures that buzz, are very commonly such as will sting.”—G. Brown. “Beg, buy, or borrow; but beware how yon find.”—Id. “It is better to have a house to let, than a house to get.” “Let not your tongue cut your throat.”—Precept cor. “A little wit will save a fortunate man.”—Adage cor. “There is many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.”—Id. “Mothers’ darlings make but milksop heroes.”—Id. “One eye-witness is worth ten hearsays.”—Id.
“The judge shall job,
the bishop bite the town,
And mighty dukes pack cards
for half a crown.”
POPE:
in Johnson’s Dict., w. Job.
RULE III.—DOUBLING.
