“Evilspeaking; a noun, compounded of the noun evil and the imperfect participle speaking.”—­Ib. “I am a tall, broadshouldered, impudent, black fellow.”—­SPECTATOR:  in Johnson’s Dict. “Ingratitude! thou marblehearted fiend.”—­SHAK.:  ib. “A popular licence is indeed the manyheaded tyranny.”—­SIDNEY:  ib. “He from the manypeopled city flies.”—­SANDYS:  ib. “He manylanguaged nations has surveyed.”—­POPE:  ib. “The horsecucumber is the large green cucumber, and the best for the table.”—­MORTIMER:  ib. “The bird of night did sit, even at noonday, upon the market-place.”—­SHAK.:  ib. “These make a general gaoldelivery of souls, not for punishment.”—­SOUTH:  ib. “Thy air, thou other goldbound brow, is like the first.”—­SHAK.:  ib. “His person was deformed to the highest degree; flatnosed, and blobberlipped.”—­L’ESTRANGE:  ib. “He that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a bloodshedder.”—­ECCLUS., xxxiv, 22:  ib. “Bloodyminded, adj. from bloody and mind. Cruel; inclined to blood-shed.”—­See Johnson’s Dict. “Bluntwitted lord, ignoble in demeanour.”—­SHAK.:  ib. “A young fellow with a bobwig and a black silken bag tied to it.”—­SPECTATOR:  ib. “I have seen enough to confute all the boldfaced atheists of this age.”—­BRAMHALL:  ib. “Before milkwhite, now purple with love’s wound.”—­SHAK:  ib. “For what else is a redhot iron than fire? and what else is a burning coal than redhot wood?”—­NEWTON:  ib. “Pollevil is a large swelling, inflammation, or imposthume in the horse’s poll, or nape of the neck just between the ears.”—­FARRIER:  ib.

   “Quick-witted, brazenfac’d, with fluent tongues,
    Patient of labours, and dissembling wrongs.”—­DRYDEN:  ib.

UNDER RULE VI.—­NO HYPHEN.

“From his fond parent’s eye a tear-drop fell.”—­Snelling’s Gift for Scribblers, p. 43.

[FORMULE—­Not proper, because the word tear-drop, which has never any other than a full accent on the first syllable, is here compounded with the hyphen.  But, according to Rule 6th, “When a compound has but one accented syllable in pronunciation, and the parts are such as admit of a complete coalescence, no hyphen should be inserted between them.”  Therefore, teardrop should be made a close compound.]

“How great, poor jack-daw, would thy sufferings be!”—­Ib., p. 29.  “Placed like a scare-crow in a field of corn.”—­Ib., p. 39.  “Soup for the alms-house at a cent a quart.”—­Ib., p. 23.  “Up into the watch-tower get, and see all things despoiled of fallacies.”—­DONNE:  Johnson’s Dict., w.  Lattice. “In the day-time she sitteth in a watchtower, and flieth most by night.”—­BACON:  ib., w.  Watchtower. “In the daytime Fame sitteth in a watch-tower, and flieth most by night.”—­ID.: