L.
L, its name and plur. numb. --of the class _liquids_ --final, monosyllables ending in --final double, to what words peculiar --its sound; in what words silent --where doubled --written for a number
_Labial_ letters, how articulated
_Language_, the primitive sense of the term, what embraced; signif. of do., as now used --in opposition to some grammarians, BROWN confines the term to speech and writing --loose explanations of the word by certain slack thinkers; WEBST. notion of --SHERID. idea of; KIRKH. wild and contradictory teachings concerning --_Language_, PROPRIETY of, in what consists; IMPROPRIETY of, what embraces --PRECISION of, in what consists; Precepts concerning its opposites --_Language_, Eng., (see _English Language_) --_Languages_, uniform SERIES OF GRAMMARS for teaching the Eng., Lat., and Gr., that of DR. BULL., noticed
_Lay, pay_, and _say_, how written in the pret. and the perf. part.
_Leading principles_ in the construc. of sentences, in what embraced in the Grammar
_Least parts_ of language, as written, as spoken, &c., what constituents so called
_Legal_ phraseology, in contrast with that of common life
_Less_, improper use of, for _fewer_, ("_No_ LESS _than three dictionaries_," DR. WEBST.)
_Lest_, use of, for THAT, without due regard to its import, ("_I feared_ LEST," &c.) --derivation of, from Sax.
_Let_, verb, its construc, with an infin. following
LETTERS, in the Eng. alphabet, numb. of, and numb. of sounds which they represent --a knowledge of, in what consists --infinite variety in, yet the letters always THE SAME --different sorts of types, or styles of, used in Eng. --names of, in Eng.; do., sing, and plur. --Classes of, named and defined --_powers_ of --the JUST POWERS of, (see _Power_) --Forms of, and their distinctions, in the Eng. lang. --different sorts of, to be kept distinct --slanting strokes of the Roman, described --_Italic_, chief use of --_capital_, employment of --_small_, do. --_Letters_, history of --the names of, are words of a peculiar kind --the names and powers of, not always identical --general neglect of learning to write the names of, in Eng. --importance of learning to write do. --erron. teaching with respect to certain names of --_Letters_ of the Heb. alphabet given, with their names, and the significations of do. --of the Gr. alphabet, with their names --of the Lat. alphab., their names nearly lost --of do., as now printed --_Letters_, the twenty-six, possible combinations and mutations of --of the alphab., _read by their names_, how taken --do., written _for numbers_, what their nature; omission of _period_ after such letters --DAY'S account of do. --_Letters_, the SOUNDS of, treated --_Letters_, the small, period of their adoption --used for references --_Letter_, definition of --_Letter_, the sound of, called its POWER; yet its _power_ not necessarily identified with its _sound_ --A _letter_, in what consists _Like, near, nigh_, appar., prepositions; why _not placed_ by BROWN with the prep. _Lily, W._, grammarian, his arrangement of Lat. syntax
_Lines, poetic_, technical denominations of
_Liquids_, what letters so called
_Literary division_ of a work, common order of, downwards, and throughout; but all literary works not thus divided. _Literary blunders_, Crit. N. concerning --_awkwardness_, do. --_ignorance_, do. --_silliness_, do.
_Little, lesser, less_, different uses and import of --_Little, much_, &c., preceded by _not, too_, or other such adv., how taken --_Less_, improp. used as an adj. of number; does not signify _fewer_; not to be used in the sense of do. --_Less, least_, adv., to be parsed separately, in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs
LOVE, verb active-trans., CONJUGATED _affirmatively_ --BE LOVED, pass., do. --LOVE, conjug. negatively --do., interrogatively --do., interrogatively and negatively
_Low_ and provincial expressions, 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.