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PART IV.

THE PRACTICE OF SPELLING,

OR

DICTATION LESSONS.

VOCABULARY I

Words pronounced alike, but differing in spelling and signification. This may be made useful for Home lessons in several ways. The pupil might be required either to copy out neatly from twenty to forty words, with their meanings; or to commit to memory from ten to twenty; or to compose short sentences containing either one or both of the words in each pair.

Ail, v. to be ill, to feel pain.
ale, n. malt liquor, strong beer.
Adds, v. joins, does add.
adze, n. a cooper's axe.
Air, n. the atmosphere.
heir, n. one who inherits.
Ayr, n. a town in Scotland.
ere, adv. sooner, before.
e'er, adv. ever.

All, a. the whole, everyone.
awl, n. a cobbler's tool for
boring holes.

Ant, n. an insect.

Aught, n. anything; a part.
ought, v. to be proper or neces-
sary.

Aloud, a. with noise.
allowed, v. granted.

Alter, v. to change.

altar, n. for worship; the communion table.

Anker, n. a measure of liquids. anchor, n. a ship's anchor. Augur,v. to predict, conjecture. auger, n. a tool to bore holes with.

aunt, n. a father or mother's An'nalist, n. historian, a writer

sister.

of annals.

Anti-, prefix. against or oppo- An'alyst, n. a chemist, one who

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bight, n. a coil of rope, a bay. Beau, n. a fashionably dressed young man.

bow, n. to shoot arrows with, a knot.

Blew, v. did blow. blue, a. or n. a color. Boar, n. the male of swine. bore, v. did boar, to make a hole in.

Bow, v. to bend, stoop. bough, n. a branch of a tree. Borne, v. carried or supported. bourn, n. a limit or boundary. Brake, n. a thicket of brambles.

break, v. to part or burst by force.

Bred, v. brought up. bread, n. food made of ground

corn.

Brays, v. as an ass; pounds in a mortar.

braze, v. to solder with brass. Brood, n. the number hatched at once; offspring. brewed, v. did brew. Bard, n. a poet.

barred, v. shut out. Bar'ren, a. unfruitful.

Belle, n. a fashionably dressed bar'on, n. a title of nobility,

young lady.

Beach, n. the shore, the strand. beech, n. a well-known forest tree.

Berry, n. a small fruit. bury, v. to inter; to conceal in the ground.

Berth, n. a sleeping place in a ship.

birth, n. a coming into life, origin.

Bite, v. to seize with the teeth.

a peer. Bow, v. does bow, bends. boughs, n. branches of trees. bowse, v. to pull hard. (A seaman's term.) Board, n. a table; food, diet; a committee.

bored, v. pierced, perforated. Bowl, n. a cup, goblet, basin. bole, n. the trunk of a tree. boll, n. the pod of a plant, as of flax.

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