Cobb's Abridgment of J. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language: Carefully Compiled from the London Quarto Editions, Published Under the Inspection of the Author ; in which Mr. Walker's Principles of Orthography and Pronunciation are Strictly Followed : and in Addition, Each Word is Systematically Divided, the Secondary Accent Noted, the Plurals of Nouns, the Present Tense and Preterit of Verbs, the Participles and the Variable Adjectives are Inserted, and All Useless Repetitions of Words are Avoided ; to which are Prefixed, Concise Principles of Pronunciation, and Rules for Accentuation and the Division of Words : with an Appendix, Containing a Class of Words which are in Common Use in this Country, and Not Found in Walker's Dictionary : Partcularly Designed for the Use of Schools

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الصفحة 5 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
الصفحة 181 - In architecture, an ornament of carved work in the form of a wreath or garland of flowers, or leaves twisted together.
الصفحة 305 - A kind of writing, in which the words of an author or his thoughts are taken, and by a slight change adapted to some new purpose.
الصفحة 59 - A loud noise; a hollow iron ball, or shell, filled with gunpowder, and furnished with a vent for a fusee, or wooden tube, filled with combustible matter , to be thrown out from a mortar.
الصفحة 134 - It, s. three fourths of an inch ; the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon ; any number expressed by a single figure. Di gi ta ted, dlj' è Ча-tèd, a. branched out into divisions like fingers. Dig ni fy, dig" né 'fi, va to advance, prefer, exalt ; to honour.
الصفحة 305 - Born for your use, I live but to obey you, Know then 'twas I ! !" TRAGEDY OF THE REVENGE, Act 5. VIII. PAEENTHESIS. Parenthesis, says Dr. Johnson, is a sentence so included in another sentence, as that it may be taken out without injuring the sense of that which encloses it.
الصفحة 147 - A book made by order of William the Conqueror, In which the estates of the kingdom were registered. DOOR, dire, a.

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