LASH (French Lafche) of a whip, i. e. that part of it which is let loose, let go, caft out, thrown out; the past participle of Fr. Lafcher, Ital. Lafciare.

"There was dayly pilled fro good men and honest, gret "fubftaunce of goodes to be LASHED oute among un"thriftes."

Sir T. More. Rycharde the thirde. pag. 64

To these may be added

QUIT, QUITE, QUITTANCE.

POISE, (pefer).

SPOUSE, RESPONSE.

EXPERT.

MERIT.

FALSE, FAULT (fallito), DEFAULT.

FRUIT (fruit).

RELIQUE, RELICT, DERELICT.

Vow, VOTE, DEVOUT.

DEMUR, (demeurer).

TALLY.

ASPECT, RESPECT, PROSPECT, CIRCUMSPECT, RETROSPECT.

SUSPENSE.

CORRECT, DIRECT, INSURGENT.

TENET, CONTENT, CONTENTS, CONTINENT, DETINUE (Writ of), RETINUE.

CRUCIFIX, AFFIX, PREFIX.

DECREE, DISCREET, SECRET.

LAPSE, RELAPSE.

SCRIPT, MANUSCRIPT, RESCRIPT, PRESCRIPT, EXSCRIPT,

TRANSCRIPT.

CONSCRIPT, POSTSCRIPT, PROSCRIPT, NONDESCRIPT..
USE, MISUSE, DISUSE, ABUSE.

COURSE, DISCOURSE, CONCOURSE, RECOURSE, INTER

COURSE.

CONCEIT, DECEIT, RECEIPT, PRECEPT.

FINITE, INFINITE, DEFINITE, FINE.

FLUX, AFFLUX, INFLUX, CONFLUX, SUPERFLUX, REFLUX. SUBJECT, OBJECT, ABJECT, PROJECT, TRAJECT.

DEGREE, GRADUATE, INGRESS, REGRESS, EGRESS, Pro

GRESS.

LEGATE, DELEGATE, LEGACY.

INSTINCT, DISTINCT, EXTINCT.

ADVOCATE.

VISIT.

CONVICT.

ABSTRUSE.

INTRIGUE, INTRICATE.

TRANSIT, EXIT, CIRCUIT, ISSUE. (Fr. Ifir. Ital. Efcire. Lat. Exire.)

ROAST.

TOAST.

STATUTE, INSTITUTE, DESTITUTE, PROSTITUTE, SUBSTI

TUTE

TINT, TAINT.

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66 Do you fee this fonnet, this loving SCRIPT?"

B. and Fletcher. A Wife for a Moneth.

SENSE, NONSENSE, ASSENT, DISSENT, CONSENT.

ASSIZE, ASSIZES.

EXCISE, CONCISE, PRECISE.

REPUTE, DISPUTE.

PRESS, IMPRESS, EXPRESS.

ESTEEM.

PRIVATE, PRIVY.

IMPORT, EXPORT, REPORT, TRANSPORT, SUPPORT.

POLITE.

APPLAUSE.

All the French participles in EE; as MORTGAGEE, ASSIGNEE, COMMITEE, &c.

And, befides thefe which I have thus taken at random, a great multitude of others; which, if I had sworn to try your patience to the utmost, I would go on to enumerate.

ЕПЕА ПТЕPOENTA, &c.,

CHAP. III.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

H.

IT gives me pleasure that you have fo far noticed this, in the words which we have adopted from the Greek, Latin, Italian and French: for you will be inclined the more readily to concur with me, that the fame thing is equally obfervable in those words which are original in our own language. Thus

BRAND, in all its ufes, whether Fire-brand, or a brand of infamy (i. e. Stigma, itself a participle of Σ(w) or brand-new, (i. e. newly burned,) is merely the paft participle Bren-ed, Bren'd, of the verb To Bren; which we now write To Burn.

Sir T. More wrote the word indifferently Bren and Burn."At St. Waleries here in Picardy there is a faire abbey, where "faint Walery was monke. And upon a furlonge of, or two, “ up in a wood is there a chapel, in which the faint is fpecially fought

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