_many_, form and construc. of. _Fewer_, see _Little_

FIGURES, treated
--_Figure_, in gram., what
--_Figures_, distinctive names of some; frequent occurrence of those of
rhetoric
--_Figure of words_, signif. of the term
--_Figure of words_, Rules for
--suggestions additional to do.
--unsettled and variable usage in that which relates to
--_Figure of orthog._, what; what the principal _figures of_ do.
--_Figure of etymol._, what
--_Figures of etymol._, the principal, named and defined
--_Figure of synt._, what
--_Figures of synt._, the principal, named and defined
--_Figure of rhet._, what
--_Figures of rhet._, why certain are called _tropes_
--on what mostly founded
--the principal, named and defined
--affect the agreem. of pronouns with their antecedents
--_Figures_, how many BROWN deems it needful to define and illustrate
--_Figures_, definitions of sundry, in the lang. of authors,
_corrected_, KEY. _Figures_, Arabic, in what cases _pointed_ by some

_Final f, l_, or _s_, in spelling; other finals than, in do.
--_ck_ or _c_, use of
--_ll_, to what confined
--_e_ of a primitive, when omitted; when retained
--_y_ of a prim. word before a terminat., how managed
--_ise_ or _ize_, which termination to be taken
--_Finals_, what letters may assume the position of; what may not, and
why

_Finite_ verbs, _agreem. of, with subjects_, a principle of Univ. Gram.
--Rules concerning
--_Fin. verb_ understood, punct. of _First words_, initial capital to
--faulty practice of grammarians with respect to

_Foot, poetic_, see _Poetic Feet_

_Foreign_ words or idioms, unnecessary use of, in opposition to purity

_For_, with _all_, as equivalent to _although_
--_For as much as_, &c., having the nature of conjunctions
--_For that_
--_For_, with perf. part., ("FOR _lost_")
--with _ever_
--before TO _and infin._
--as introducing its object before an infin.. _For_, conj., _because_,
from Sax.; anc. expressed _for that_

_Forever_, or _for ever_, its class

_Former_ and _latter_, nature and applic. of _Forms of letters_, in type or
character
--_Forms_ OF VERBS, a knowledge of THE TRUE, nothing more important in
gram. than _Forsooth_, signif. and use of

_Friends_, the Society of; their employment, in familiar discourse, of the
sing. pron. of the second pers.