496 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English language 
sect. 1.) that “ the regu/ar form is preferable, and prevails most in writing ;” 
and this is agreeable to the general practice in America. 
To LOAN ; to lend. In the preface to the London edition of Ramsay’s stadia 
of the American Revolution, this is classed among those American yerbs, 
which the English “have altogether declined to countenance,” and igen 
(says the Editor) “appear to be verbs invented without any apparent reason.” 
To LOCATE. 1.To place. “A number of courts properly /ocated will keep the 
business of any country in such condition as but few suits will be instituted.” 
Debates on the Judiciary, p. 51. 
2.“ To survey or fix the bounds of unsettled land, or to designate a 
tract by a writing.” Wedst. This verb is not in the English dictionaries. 
LOCATION ; «the act of designating or surveying and bounding land; the 
tract so designated.” Webst. This substantive is in the English diction- 
aries, but not in this sense, 
M. 
MAD 3 angry, vexed, “I was see mad xt him, he made me mad. In this 
si instance mad is only a } or angry. ‘This is perhaps an English 
vulgarism, but it is not found? in ria accurate writer, nor used by any good 
speaker, unless when poets or orators use it as a strong figure, and, to 
heighten the expression, say, he was mad with rage.” Withersp. Druid, 
No.5. This is considered here as a low word (in this sense) and at the pres- 
ent day is never used except in conversation. It seems to be an Trish idiom. 
In Miss Edgeworth’s Castle Rack Rent, an Irishman says, “My lady would 
haye the last word, and Sir Murtagh grew mad;” i. e. (as she explains it 
in the Glossary to the work) “ grew angry.” The same use of the word 
by an Irish youth in the “Eton Montem” (Edgeworth’s Parents’ As- 
sistant) is the cause ‘of his offending one of his English fellow-stucents, 
till the Zrish meaning of the word is explained. The word occurs in the 
Spectator, No. 176, and seems to be used in this sense: « ng bid dear 
says she, you make me mad sometimes, so you do.” 
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