essions, 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_.

_Milton_, MURR. proposed amendment of the "unintelligible" language of a
certain passage of, criticised,
--double solec. in a pass, of, noticed,
--his poem, _L'Allegro_, what its versificat.; what the management of
the orders of its verse,
--do., _Il Penseroso_, what its extent and construction.

_Miss_ or _Misses, Mr_. or _Messrs._, what the proper applicat. of, when
_name and title_ are to be used together, in a plur. sense.

_Mistaken, to be_, irregularity of the verb; its import as applied to
persons, and as applied to things.

_Mimesis_, explained; droll examples of.

_Minus, plus, versus, via_, Lat., use of, in Eng., in partic.
const