Little, lesser, less, different uses and import of
    —­Little, much, &c., preceded by not, too, or other such adv., how
      taken
    —­Less, improp. used as an adj. of number; does not signify fewer;
      not to be used in the sense of do.
    —­Less, least, adv., to be parsed separately, in the comparison of
      adjectives and adverbs

LOVE, verb active-trans., CONJUGATED affirmatively
    —­BE LOVED, pass., do. 
    —­LOVE, conjug. negatively
    —­do., interrogatively
    —­do., interrogatively and negatively

Low and provincial expressions, use of, as opp. to purity, PREC. against

Ly, most common terminal of Eng. adverbs; added to nouns to form adjectives

(I,) u; 1055, b; 1053, L: 
    —­when adverbs ending in, are preferable to those of other forms.

M.

M, its name and plur. numb.,
    —­of the class liquids,
    —­its sounds,
    —­when silent,
    —­as written for a number.

Macron, or macrotone, mark, its use.

Make, verb, whether to should be suppressed, and be, inserted, after,
("MAKE yourself BE heard,” BLAIR,)
    —­its construc. with infin. following.

Man and woman, comp. nouns in, (man-servant, woman-servant, &c.,) how pluralized.

Many a, with noun sing. represented by a plur. pronoun.

Marks, or points, used in literary composition, the principal; occasional.  See Punctuation.

May, verb, how varied,
    —­derivation and uses of.

Mean, means, use and construc. of.

Measure, &c., see Time.  Measure, poetical, see Verse.

Melody or beauty of a sentence, words necessary to, rarely to be omitted.

Member, or clause, defined.
    —­Memb. and clause, generally used as synonymous, are discriminated
      by some,
    —­Clause and phrase, confounded by some,
    —­Members, simple, of a sent., punct. of,
    —­complex, do., do.,
    —­Members of a sentence, arrangem. of, as affecting STRENGTH.

Metaphor, defined,
    —­what commonly understood to be,
    —­agreem. of pron. with antecedent in cases of.

Methinks, explanation of; the lexicographers on the word.

Metonymy, defined,
    —­Meton., on what founded,
    —­agreem. of pron. with its antecedent, in cases of.

Metres, more found in actual use, than those acknowledged in the ordinary schemes of prosody. Metre, see Verse.