in the United States of America. — 499 
in conversation in a few towns in the interior of Massachusetts, to signify a 
Jriend, or (to use a cant word) a creny. The word is in Roger Williams’s 
| Key to the Narraganset Language, published in the Collections of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. y. p. 82. Williams says, “ What 
cheer, netof, is the general salutation of all English toward them [the In- 
* 
dians, |” 
T> NOTICE ; to observe, to take notice of. This is not, as some persons have 
- Supposed, an American word. It is a modern word, and is not in Johnson’s 
“ae dictionary. _ Mason says, it is “a word imported into English conversation 
from Jaswant 3” but it is now in use in England, both in conver- 
~» sation and in writing. “This work, which we really thought we had 
jymoticed long ago.” British Critic, vol. xxxiv. p. 537. “ The fourth, which 
_ we lately .woticed, &c. vol. xxxv. p. 18, The only English dictionary, in 
~ whichI find it, is 4sh’s, where ‘it is said to be “ not much used,’ But that 
_ Work was published forty years ago. 
Yo NOTIFY. The following remarks of Dr. Witherspoon will explain the 
_ American and the English manner of using this verb: 
“This is to notify the public ; or the people had not been mor: ified, By 
this is Sater and pene In nals we do not notify the person 
: the this i instance there is 
derivation, to make-known. Now if you cannot say, this. py ie ety the 
» “public “known, neither ought you to say, this is to notify the public.” 
Druid, Now 5. Some American writers, however, preserye the English 
: “idiom. - “& The official letter notifying to the Convention the appointment of 
Mr. Genet,” &e. Marsh. Life of Washing. vol. v. Appendix, p18. The 
‘practice of writers in England seems to have been invariable from the. days 
of Addison to the present: “ Having norifed ¢o my good friend. Sir Roger, 
_ that I should set out for London,” &c. Sfrectat. No; 132.: The act of no- 
: tifying to the world.” Johns. Dict. under the word Publication. “The 
‘Coramander | in Chief, therefore, has it in comman¢ to convey to all hire 
officers the highest displeasure of the Prince ae conduct so unmil- 
itary and disgraceful, and to notify to them that they are no longer officers 
