Kind, sort, with these or those improp. preceding
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.)