“But what part of speech is it?”

“It’s a substantive or a verb.” (Young Horne Tooke didn’t ask her if it was an active or passive, an irregular or defective verb; an inceptive, as calesco, I grow warm, or dulcesco, I grow sweet; a frequentative or a desiderative, as nupturio, I desire to marry.)

“I think it is a verb,” said John, who was deep in other diversions, besides those of Purley; “and I think it must have been originally the Perfect of Live, like thrive throve, strive strove.”

“Capital, John!” suddenly growled Uncle Oldbuck, who was supposed to be asleep in his arm-chair by the fireside, and who snubbed and supported the entire household. “It was that originally, and it will be our own faults, children, if it is not that at last, as well as, ay, and more than at first. What does Richardson say, John? read him out.” John reads—

LOVE, v. s.
-LESS.
-LY, ad. av.
-LILY.
-LINESS.
-ER.
-ING.
-INGLY.
-INGNESS.
-ABLE.*
-SOME.†
ERED.‡ 		To prefer, to desire, as an object of possession or enjoyment to delight in, to be pleased or gratified with, to take pleasure or gratification in, delight in.
Love, the s is app. emph. to the passion between the sexes.
Lover is, by old writers, app. as friend—by male to male.
Love is much used—pref.
* Wiclif. † Chaucer. ‡ Shak.

Love-locks,—locks (of hair) to set off the beauty; the loveliness.

A. S. Luf-ian; D. Lie-ven; Ger. -ben, amare, diligere. Wach. derives from lieb, bonum, because every one desires that which is good: lieb, it is more probable, is from lieb-en, grateful, and therefore good. It may at least admit a conjecture that A. S. Lufian, to love, has a reason for its application similar to that of L. Di-ligere (legere, to gather), to take up or out (of a number), to choose, sc. one in preference to another, to prefer; and that it is formed upon A. S. Hlif-ian, to lift or take up, to pick up, to select, to prefer, Be- Over- Un-

LOVE, v. s.
-LESS.
-LY, ad. av.
-LILY.
-LINESS.
-ER.
-ING.
-INGLY.
-INGNESS.
-ABLE.*
-SOME.†
ERED.‡ 		To prefer, to desire, as an object of possession or enjoyment to delight in, to be pleased or gratified with, to take pleasure or gratification in, delight in.
Love, the s is app. emph. to the passion between the sexes.
Lover is, by old writers, app. as friend—by male to male.
Love is much used—pref.
* Wiclif. † Chaucer. ‡ Shak.

Uncle impatiently.—“Stuff; ‘grateful!’ ‘pick up! stuff! These word-mongers know nothing about it. Live, love; that is it, the perfect of live.”[34]

After this, Uncle sent the cousins to their beds.

Mary’s mother was in hers, never to rise from it again. She was a widow, and Mary was her husband’s niece. The house quiet, Uncle sat down in his chair, put his feet on the fender, and watched the dying fire; it had a rich central glow, but no flame, and no smoke, it was flashing up fitfully, and bit by bit falling in. He fell asleep watching it, and when he slept, he dreamed. He was young; he was seventeen; he was prowling about the head of North St. David Street, keeping his eye on a certain door,—we call them common stairs in Scotland. He was waiting for Mr. White’s famous English class for girls coming out. Presently out rushed four or five girls, wild and laughing; then came one, bounding like a roe:

“Such eyes were in her head,