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of the pofsefsive) are so numerous, and afsume so 

 many different forms, that it would be a laborious 

 talk to enumerate the whole. I here onlj offer a 

 specimen of a few. 



The following words afsume this genitive signifi- 

 cation without any change at all of the noun : mar-' 

 riage-contract, spade-Jhaft, gun-barrel, mill-wheel^ 

 hat-band, sword-blude, church-yard, day-break, cart- 

 load, doomsday-book ; to which might be added 

 many others. 



Not efsentially different in form from these, with 

 a similar genitive signification, are the words, Jljip- 

 builder, candle-maker, watch-maker, sugar-baker, soap" 

 boiler, and others of the same clafs. 



It appears under a different form in the. word 

 French-man, Engli/h-man, Scots-man, &c. 



Another variety of this clafs are the words High= 

 lander, Lowlander, Londoner, Commoner, Laplander. 



Still more different in form, but with the same ge- 

 nitive signification it appears in the words Dane, 

 Ru/s, Swede^ &C-C,; and in Lombard, Spaniard, Savoy~ 

 ard ; as also, Italian, Biscayan, German, Persian ; 

 and in Genevese, Japanese, Chinese^ Turk, Jew, Sa- 

 moyed,Levite, yacobitCy Barnabite, cum multis aliis. 



^d. Our grammarians, who have in some instan* 

 ces so readily bestowed the name oi genitives on a 

 particular clafs of words, derived from some of our 

 nouns by one mode of inflection, and refused to give 

 that name toother words derived from our nouns by 

 any other inflection, have, in other cases, banilhed, 

 from the rank of nouns entirely, other words which. 

 have a similar genitive signification, that are de- 



