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Common terms and phrases
able accent Adonis ance Apophyge Apothecium ärm Artium Magister ation ative ator Avoirdupois bd bd bd beâr Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bosporus bushel Cæsar calendar Car Car Car cents Cha Cha Cha Cham Cham Chan coins conj Conv Conv Conv cubic decimetre ence English word EQUIVALENT TABLE feet final consonant foot FOREIGN WORDS gallons German gold grain Gregorian Calendar Gro Gro Gro Gu Gu inches iness Int Int Int inter Italian Julius Cæsar long ton MEASURE ment metres Motto Musical ness noun omne Penelope pound preceded prep pro-jekt pron pronounced quod shun sing sound Spanish spelling square suffix beginning syllable Table d'hôte thêre tion unit Verbs ending vowel weight WORDS AND PHRASES yard
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Page 105 - A pile of wood 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high, contains 1 cord; and a cord foot is 1 foot in length of such a pile.
Page 103 - Extension has three dimensions — length, breadth, and thickness. A Line has only one dimension — length. A Surface or Area has two dimensions — length and breadth. A Solid or Body has three dimensions — length, breadth, and thickness. I.
Page 134 - Is. ch has a sound unknown in our language, and which, consequently, can be learned from an oral instructor only. It somewhat resembles that of our...
Page 134 - Oe, or o, nearly resembles the eu in French, but has no parallel sound in English ; the sound in our language nearest to it is that of e in her, or u in fur;\he German poets often rhyme it with e (a or e).
Page 145 - Pedigrees, so arranged that Eight Generations of the Ancestors of any Person may be recorded in a connected and simple form. By WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, AM SEVENTH EDITION.
Page 135 - Italian. ] at the beginning of a syllable is like the English y (consonant] ; at the end of a word it is equivalent to »'{Italian}.
Page 125 - Mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, will be always able to make a good citizen.
Page 134 - Sachsen, sak'-sen, &c. 20. (r, at the beginning of a word, sounds as in the English word get. In other situations, it should be pronounced like the German eh.