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--_Ib._, p. 76. "Pearl-ash requires much labour in its extraction from ashes."--_Ib._, p. 91. "_Club_, or _crump, footed_, Loripes; _Rough_, or _leather, footed_, Plumipes."--_Ainsworth's Dict._ "The honey-bags steal from the humble bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs." --SHAK.: _Joh.'s Dict., w. Glowworm._ "The honeybags steal from the bumblebees, And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs." --SHAK.: _Joh.'s Dict., w. Humblebee._ "The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night tapers crop their waxen thighs." --_Dodd's Beauties of Shak._, p. 51. EXERCISE IV.--SPELLING. "His antichamber, and room of audience, are little square chambers wainscoted."--ADDISON: _Johnson's Dict., w. Antechamber_. "Nobody will deem the quicksighted amongst them to have very enlarged views of ethicks."--LOCKE: _Ib., w. Quicksighted_. "At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity."--L'ESTRANGE: _Ib., m. Blunderhead_. "On the topmast, the yards, and boltsprit would I flame distinctly."--SHAK.: _Ib., w. Bowsprit_. "This is the tune of our catch plaid by the picture of nobody."--ID.: _Ib., w. Nobody_. "Thy fall hath left a kind of blot to mark the fulfraught man."--ID.: _Ib., w. Fulfraught_. "Till blinded by some Jack o'Lanthorn sprite."--_Snelling's Gift_, p. 62. "The beauties you would have me eulogise."--_Ib._, p. 14. "They rail at me--I gaily laugh at them."--_Ib._, p. 13. "Which the king and his sister had intrusted to him withall."--_Josephus_, Vol. v, p. 143. "The terms of these emotions are by no means synonimous."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 336. "Lillied, _adj._ Embellished with lilies."--_Chalmers's Dict._ "They seize the compendious blessing without exertion and without reflexion."--_Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 428. "The first cry that rouses them from their torpour, is the cry that demands their blood."--_Ib._, p. 433. "It meets the wants of elementary schools and deserves to be patronised."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 5. "Whose attempts were paralysed by the hallowed sound."--_Music of Nature_, p. 270. "It would be an amusing investigation to analyse their language."--_Ib._, p. 200. "It is my father's will that I should take on me the hostess-ship of the day."--SHAK.: _in Johnson's Dict._ "To retain the full apprehension of them undiminisht."--_Phil. Museum._, Vol. i, p. 458. "The ayes an
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