examined by BROWN; who determines the prop.
forms of expression
--_Numbers_, expressed by letters, how to be considered; whether to be
marked by the period
--combined arithmetical, one adjective relating to an other

_Numerals, numeral adjectives_, see _Adjectives, Numeral_. _Numerical
figures_ used for references

O.

O, lett., as A, E, I, and U, self-naming
--its plural
--formation of the plur. of nouns in
--sounds properly its own
--where sounded as short _u_
--do. as obscure _e_
--diphthongs beginning with
--triphth. do. _O_, interj., with cap. lett.
--what emotion indicates
--differs from _oh_
--as denoting earnestness, before nouns or pronouns put absol. by
direct address; is no positive index of the vocative
--_O_, &c., MURR., erron. doctrine concerning, to what teaching it has
given rise
--_O_, &c., with a case following, Lat. construc. of, examined
--_O_, not unfreq. confounded with _oh_, even by grammarians.

_Obelisk_, or _dagger_, as mark of reference.

_Objective case_, defined
--_Obj. case_, how distinguished from the _nom._ in nouns
--before the infin. mood, how taken in Eng.
--as governed by active-trans. verb or part.
--"Active verbs govern the _obj. case_," MURR., defect of this brief
assertion; its uselessness as a RULE for "the syntax of verbs."
--_Obj. case_, of how many constructions susceptible
--whether infinitives, participles, &c., can be in
--two nouns in, after a verb, how parsed,
--Whether any verb in Eng. governs _two objectives_ not coupled
--_Obj. case_ as governed by passive verbs, erron. allowed by some
--what verbs not to be employed without
--_Obj. case_ as governed by prep.
--"Prepositions gov. the _obj. case_," why the brief assertion is
exceptionable, as the sole RULE, in parsing prep.

_Obsolete_ or antiquated words, use of, as opposed to purity, PREC. against
--_Things obsolete_ in Eng., DR. LATHAM'S attempts to revive.

_Ocean_, figurative representation of, as uttering his voice in tones of
varied quantity.

_Octometer_ line, may be reduced to tetrameter
--iambic, examples of
--_trochaic_, do
--dactylic, example of
--_Octometer_, trochaic, rhyme and termination of; its pauses, and how
may be divided; the most common form of.

_Of_ and _on_ or _upon_, difference between.

_Old English_,