but one person or thing.  PLURAL, (Latin pluralis, from plus, more,) signifies, ‘expressing more than one.’”—­Weld cor. “When the present ends in e, d only is added to form the imperfect tense and the perfect participle of regular verbs.”—­Id. “Synaeresis is the contraction of two syllables into one; as, seest for seest, drowned for drown-ed.”—­Id. (See Brown’s Inst. p. 230.) “Words ending in ee are often inflected by mere consonants, and without receiving an additional syllable beginning with e:  as, see, seest, sees; agree, agreed, agrees.”—­Weld cor. “In monosyllables, final f, l, or s, preceded by a single vowel, is doubled; as in staff, mill, grass.”—­Id. “Before ing, words ending in ie drop the e, and change the i into y; as, die, dying.”—­Id.” One number may be used for the other—­or, rather, the plural may be used for the singular; as, we for I, you for thou.”—­S.  S. Greene cor. “STR~OB’ILE, n. A pericarp made up of scales that lie one over an other.”—­Worcester cor.

   “Yet ever, from the clearest source, hath run
    Some gross alloy, some tincture of the man.”—­Lowth cor.

LESSON V.—­UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

“The possessive case is usually followed by a noun, expressed or understood, which is the name of the thing possessed.”—­Felton cor. “Hadmer of Aggstein was as pious, devout, and praying a Christian, as was Nelson, Washington, or Jefferson; or as is Wellington, Tyler, Clay, or Polk.”—­H.  C. Wright cor. “A word in the possessive case is not an independent noun, and cannot stand by itself.”—­J.  W. Wright cor. “Mary is not handsome, but she is good-natured; and good-nature is better than beauty.”—­St. Quentin cor. “After the practice of joining all words together had ceased, a note of distinction was placed at the end of every word.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “Neither Henry nor Charles dissipates his time.”—­Hallock cor. “’He had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles.’  KNOLLES:”—­Brown’s Institutes, p. 200; Johnson’s Quarto Dict., w.  What. “In what character Butler was admitted, is unknown.”  Or:  “In whatever character Butler was admitted, that character is unknown.”—­Hallock cor. “How are the agent of a passive and the object of an active verb often left?”—­Id. “By SUBJECT, is meant the word of whose object something is declared.”  Or:  “By SUBJECT, is meant the word which has something declared of the thing signified.”—­Chandler cor. “Care should also be taken that a