| Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 pągines
...free-dom, falsehood. OF WORDS. Words are articulate sounds, used by common content, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable ;...syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a Trissyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. All words are either primitive... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pągines
...RCLES^br spelling them. WORDS are articulate sounds, used by common con *ent, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable ;...of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of three syl tables, a Trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. All words are either... | |
| Goold Brown - 1826 - 122 pągines
...as many syllables as there are distinct sounds ; as, gram-ma-ri-an. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trissyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. A diphthong is two vowels joined... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1829 - 120 pągines
...sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable is termed a monosyfla We ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pągines
...proper letters.* WORDS. Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable, a...dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative.... | |
| Roscoe Goddard Greene - 1830 - 124 pągines
...proper letters. WORDS. Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable; a...dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative.... | |
| Edward Hazen - 1830 - 230 pągines
...them, he is referred to Walk Dictionary. WORDS. A word is a syllable, or combination of syllables. A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable. A word of two syllables is termed a dissyllable. A word of three syllables is termed a trisyllable. A word of four or more... | |
| Alexander Crombie - 1830 - 490 pągines
...expressive of significant sound, simple or compound. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable; and a word of more than three syllables is called a polysyllable. The last term, however, is frequently... | |
| Lorenzo F. Hamlin - 1833 - 116 pągines
...bees hum, flies buzz, serpents hiss, water flows, hail rattles, &c. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable...trisyllable ; a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative : a primitive word is the root whence the... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 pągines
...a single impulse of the voice; as, a, an, ant. A word of one syllable, is termed a Monosyl lable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of...Trisyllable ; a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. [II. WORDS. Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas.... | |
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