[2] "Etymology," Greek et'umon, the true literal sense of a word according to its derivation, and log'os, a discourse.
[3] "Vocabulary," Latin vocabula'rium, a stock of words; from vox, vocis, a voice, a word.
[4] By the Low German languages are meant those spoken in the low, flat countries of North Germany, along the coast of the North Sea (as Dutch, the language of Holland); and they are so called in contradistinction to High German, or German proper.
[5] For the full definition, reference should be had to a dictionary; but in the present exercise the literal or etymological signification may suffice.
[6] Fen'do, fen'dere, is used in Latin only in composition.
[7] Another mode of spelling defense.
[8] From pass and over, a feast of the Jews instituted to commemorate the providential escape of the Jews to Egypt, when God, smiting the first-born of the Egyptians passed over the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the paschal lamb.
[9] For the explanation of the etymology see Webster's Unabridged.
[10] For is different from fore, and corresponds to the German ver, different from vor.
A, be, for, ge, are often indifferently prefixed to verbs, especially to perfect tenses and perfect participles, as well as to verbal nouns.—BOSWORTH.