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”Calculate, _v i_ To make a computation; as, we calculate better for ourselves than for others In _popular use_, this word is often equivalent to _intend_ or _purpose_, that is, to o a journey This use of the word springs fro_ the various circu its deter land It inal words
”Span, _n_ A _span of horses_ consists of two of nearly the same color, and otherwise nearly alike, which are usually harnessed side by side
The word signifies properly the sa or fastening together But in America, _span_ always i an object of aentlemen and with teamsters to unite two horses abreast that are alike
”Likely, _a_ Such as ; as a _likely_ man or woman [This use of _likely_ is not obsolete as Johnson affirlish and their descendants in Alish apply the word to external appearance; and with them _likely_ is equivalent to _handsome_, _well-formed_, as a _likely_ man, a _likely_ horse In America the word is usually applied to the endow accoood character and talents, or of good dispositions or acco or respectable]
”Clever, _a_ In _New England_, good-natured, possessing an agreeable mind or disposition In _Great Britain_ this word is applied to the body or its movements, in its literal sense; in _America_ it is applied chiefly to the mind, temper, disposition In Great Britain a _clever man_ is a dextrous man, one who perforland a _cleverdisposition and a a row; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, etc; to _raise_ horses, oxen, or sheep _New England_ [The English now use _grow_ in regard to crops; as, to _groheat This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently solish books We always use _raise_, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the Southern States]
”Realize, _v t_ To bring into actual existence and possession; to render tangible or effective He never _realized_ much profit from his trade or speculation
”Locate, _v t_, 2 To select, survey, and settle the bounds of a particular tract of land; or to designate a portion of land by limits; as, to _locate_ a tract of a hundred acres in a particular townshi+p _U
States_ 3 To designate and determine the place of; as, a committee was appointed to _locate_ a church or a court-house _N England_
”Rail, _n_, 1 A cross beaht posts
_Moxon_ [In New England this is never called a _beam_; pieces of ti_] 2 In the _United States_ a piece of tih or s The co used as they are split from the chestnut or other trees The _rails_ used in fences of boards or pickets round gentle, and often dressed with the plane 4 A series of posts connected with cross bealand we never call this series a _rail_, but by the general ter_ In a picket fence, the pales or pickets rise above the rails; in a ballustrade, or fence rese it, the ballusters usually terminate in the rails
”Tallow, _n_ A sort of animal fat, particularly that which is obtained from animals of the sheep and ox kinds The fat of se never call _tallow_, but _lard_ or _suet_ I see in English books, s, but in America I never heard the word thus applied
”Prairy, _n_ [Fr _prairie_] An extensive tract of land, mostly level, destitute of trees, and covered with tall, coarse grass These _prairies_ are nuhany Mountains, especially between the Ohio, Mississippi, and the great lakes
”Widen, _v t_ To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; as, to _widen_ a field; to _widen_ a breach [Note In A]
”Window, _n_ An opening in the wall of a building for the ad has a fra panes of glass In the U
States the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air In France _s_ are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door
”Chore, _n_ [Eng _char_] In America this word denotes suished froenerally used in the plural, _chores_, which includes the daily or occasional business of feeding cattle and other ani furniture, etc (See char)”
Froather so words which were either exclusively A and use He regards thelish standard of the day, but diversities frolish current forrace in his eyes for a word to be an Ay or defense of any kind There are indeed in, or at least of American adoption, which he enters silently with the belief that they have quite as fair a claim to a place in his Dictionary as if they had been used by Dryden or Addison I have already quoted the passage in his preface relating to the illustrative quotations; the proent reader hts of Mason, Sht has now faded
By all these means, by a certain contee, by citations from Aood in every part of it, while by the exercise of individual caprice and of a personal authority, which had grown out of his long-continued and solitary labor, he attached his own na Dictionary is ”An Ae,” and bears indubitable evidence of its application to Aan of an over-zealous patriotise, but the work has been revised, not out of all likeness to its original for impossible to any one man, required the cooperation of a coinal Preface to the edition of 1828 has been preserved as a reat work, but his Introduction and Advertisee have been swept away, and their place supplied by the maturer and more scholarly work of Webster's successors
It has been said by soenerous, that the book commonly known as Webster's Dictionary, soed, shouldthe fact that the original private enterprise had, as it were, been transforht, out of courtesy, take the name of the once founder but now ed in the ement of words Indeed, the name Webster has been associated with such a vast nuhts, that it has become to many a enerations to find the word ”Webster”
defined in soed as the colloquial word for a Dictionary The bright-eyed, bird-like looking gentleoing some metempsychosis, but the student of American literature will at any ti his personality frolasses,either the arid, bloodless being which his work supposes, or the reckless disturber of philological peace which his eneilant, determined American school-master, who had enormous faith in his country, and an uncole-handed a task which, once done, prepared the way for lexigraphical work far h and satisfactory than could have been possible without his pioneer labor
Not only have the successive Dictionaries which bear his name resulted froreat lexicon begun and carried out by one of his early assistants to the ireat Around of confidence for the production of the corresponding works of an encyclopaedic and dictionary character which attest the enterprise of Ahness of American scholars
CHAPTER VIII
CONCLUSION