[10] A more definite and unmistakable instance of a word acquiring a concrete sense would be, ‘He raised his arm, and, with outstretched hand, exclaimed, etc.’
[11] Murray, p. 898.
[12] Shakespeare could not gain currency for his forgetive, nor Bishop Wilkins for his ‘unwalkative cripple.’
[13] Cf. Whitney’s Life and Growth of Language, pp. 27, 28.
[14] Other examples are fera, thier, deer; γυνή, queen, quean; and the modern Greek ἄλογο(ν) (the unreasoning animal), for ‘a horse.’
[15] Skeat, English Etymology, p. 257.
[16] In some cases the termination comes from the French -eur; and in this case, too, the same remarks apply. Cf. also the words butler = bottler; usher, ostiarius, etc.
[17] So termed from the white streaked face of the animal. Gael. broc, O. Celtic broccos. Cf. Murray, Dictionary, i. v.
[18] Bain’s ‘English Composition,’ p. 23.
[19] Similar instances are Capability Brown, Satan Montgomery.