This

vier and the wooden one specifically lighter. kind of gravity is also called relative and comparative; in opposition to absolute gravity, which increases in proportion to the quantity or mass of the body.

H.

HABIT. (See HABEO, p. 17.) State of any thing. Habit is a disposition either of mind or body, acquired by the frequent repetition of the same act; or a facility of doing a thing, acquired by having done it frequently. Virtue is called a habit of the mind; swimming, a habit of the body. Habit differs from instinct, not in its nature, but in its origin; the latter being natural, the former acquired.

Halcyon-days. Dies alcyonii. A phrase that frequently occurs among writers, to denote a time of peace and tranquillity. The expression takes its rise from a seafowl, called, Halcyon, or alcyon, which is said to build its nest when the weather is usually observed to be still and calm.

Hammock, from humus, a hook, is the name given to beds suspended by hooks from the ceiling, as on board

ships.

Haven, like habeo, is an example of the change of letters, (v for b). Habena is a rein, and haven is a place where vessels are confined, or reined in by their cables.

Herbi-vorous. See VORO, p. 42.
Homi-cide. See CADO, p. 4.

Host. A term applied to a person who lodges another, and sometimes to the person also lodged. It was a custom among the ancients, when any strangers asked for lodgings, for the master of the house, and the stranger, each of them to set a foot on each side of the threshold, and swear they would neither of them do any harm to the other. By some, Host is supposed to be

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formed from ostium or hostium, as one who desires of the other an entrance; others from hospes, as if sospes, safe, because each of the parties sought to be safe while they were together.

Human, from humanus, belonging to man.-Humanity. The nature of man.-Humanities. Is used plurally, for the humaniores literæ, that is, the study of the Greek and Latin languages, grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient poets or orators, and historians.

I.

IN.-When the preposition IN is united to other words it has three different significations.

1st. It denotes the same as our English prepositions, in, into, upon, over, or against.

2ndly. It has a privative sense; that is, it marks the absence of that which is denoted by the uncompounded word: thus, active, in-active.

3rdly. It has an intensive signification; that is, it marks an increased degree of action, and is equivalent to our adverb, greatly: thus, lumino is simply I lighten; and il-luminate, I lighten greatly.

Probably when IN is found to have the second signification, it is an ellipsis of " in no degree," and in the third significcation, “in a great degree."

1. IN, signifying IN or INTO, OVER, UPON, or AGAINST.

Illative. See FERO, p. 13.
Immission, missus, sent.
Imminent, minens, threaten-
ing, ready to fall.
Immolate. See MOLA,

24.

Immure, murus, a wall.
Impede, pedes, the feet.
Impel, pello, I drive.
Impending, pendo, I hang.
Import, porto, 1 carry.
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Implicate, plico, I fold.
Imprecate, precor, I pray.
Impress*,

p.

Impugn, pugno, I fight.
Impulsion, pulsus, driven.
Impute, puto, I think.
Incarnation, caro, carnis,
flesh.

Incident, cedens, falling.
Incision, cisus, cut.
Incite, cito, I move.
Incline, clino, I bend.
Include, claudo, I shut.
Inculcate, car, the heel;
calco, I use the heel, to
press or stamp in the

Incumbent, cumbo, I bend.
Incursion, curro, I run.
Indent, dentis, the teeth.
Induce, duco, I lead.
Infer, fero, I carry.
Influence, fluo, I flow.
Inform, formo, I form.
Infringe, fringo for frango,
I break.

Infuse, fundo, I pour.
Ingress, gradior, I move.
Inhale, halo, I breathe.
Inherent, haereo, I stick.
Initial, initio, I begin, form-
ed of in, and eo, I go.
Inject, jacio, I cast.
Innate, natus, born.
Inscribe, scribo, I write.
Insect, sectus, cut.
Insert, sero, I sow seed.
Insinuate, sinus, the bosom.
Insist, sisto, I stand.
Inspect, specto, I look.
Inspire, spiro, I breathe.
Instant, sto, I stand.
Instil, stillo, I drop.
Institute, statuo, I place.

mind, as we stamp in Instruct, struo, I build.
any physical object with Insult, salto, I jump.
the heel.
Intrude, trudo, I thrust.

* In order to keep the work within as narrow bounds as perspicuity would allow, the Latin is not given where the uncompounded word is found in the English language, as press, material, and others.

Intuition, tueor, tuitus, I Invest, vestio, I clothe.

Impure.

Inability.

Illegible, lego, I read.

Inaccessible.

Inactive.

Ignominy, that is, an ill Impunity, punio, I punish.

name, nomen.

Ignorant, gnosco, I know.

Illicit, licet, it is lawful.

Illiterate, literatus, learned. Inaccurate.

Immaculate, macula, a spot Inaction.

or blemish.

Immaterial.

Immense, mensus,

ed.

Immediate.

Immemorial.

Immoderate.

Immodest.

Inadequate.

Irreparable.

Insoluble and insolvent, Irrevocable.

3. IN, as an INTENSIVE.

Illuminate, lumino,
lighten.
Illusion, ludo, I play.
Illustrate, lustro, I lighten.
Immerge, mergo, I put into

water.

Impetuous, peto, I seek.
Implement, pleo, I fill.
Implore, ploro, I weep.

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I Increase, cresco, I grow.
Indicate, dico, I show.
Inflection, flecto, I bend.
Inflict, flicto, I beat.
Innovate, novo, I make new,
Inquire, quæro, I seek.
Intend, tendo, I stretch.
Inveterate, vetero, I grow
old, continue long.

The above is merely an alphabetical list for the convenience of more easy reference to the root, or origin of the word; as, for further explanation of infuse, see fundo; ingress, see gradior; irruption, see rumpo, &c. &c., among the verbs from page to page 42. These words will also be found more fully explained, in regular alphabetical order, in the following pages.