* The Suffix AGE, signifies, also, the cost of, the place where, the rank or condition, as also an assemblage of things.

This Suffix deserves special notice. It marks what is peculiar to persons or things; and hence denotes a doctrine or system, a state or condition, as also an idiom in language.

Y, RY, ARY, ERY, ORY, are merely different forms of the same prefix. Beside the meanings given above, they often denote a body or number of things taken collectively; as, perfumery, a collection of perfumes yeomanry, the body or mass of yeomen.

SECTION XXII.

ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND WORDS.

Here, in the first and second columns, the parts of each compound are separately given, with the definitions. underneath. In the third column, they are brought together again, and, in the fourth, defined as one word.

* For a course of study in the analysis of Derivatives and Compounds exclusively, see Sanders & McElligott's ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH WORDS.