328 ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
322. Bead is akin to bud, button, Hindustanee pot a bead. ‘Supposed from beten, 
biddan, to pray, from the use of beads in Catholic countries.” Webster, Richardson, 
Tooke. Yet, beads must have been invented, named, and used for ornament in all coun- 
tries, antecedent to such a collateral purpose. 
323. Notiophilus. Some years ago the authorities of the State of New York permitted 
a large sum of money to be paid for the publication of a worthless quarto volume, devoted 
to the Entomology of that region. The author was for thirty years a professor of natural 
history in a college in Massachusetts, and therefore competent, one should suppose, to 
work out the technical etymologies of the science which he professed—for these are 
all spelt according to rule. Nor was there any necessity to deal with etymology, 
as the book was about insects, without regard to the meaning of their names. This 
official work, published “By Authority,” is alluded to here, to show how Uittle use can be 
made of an etymologic orthography, even by the so-called “educated” classes about some 
of our colleges. Here Notiophilus is rendered “notion beetle,” from the Latin nétio a 
notion, instead of wet-lover from voreos wet, gthoc lover. Anchomenes (from 47, to squeeze 
the throat, because the insect has a narrow neck,) is made “ditch beetle,” as if from azoc, 
a cleft. Aphodius (named from inhabiting filth,) is made “footless beetle,” as if from « 
(not,) ove (foot,) the insect being a good walker and flier. Cucujus, (from the South 
American name cucujo,) is made ‘mixed beetle,” as if from zxdw. Coelionys (meaning 
pointed abdomen,) is made “ceiling wasp,” &. The ‘Entomology’ is equally worthless. 
324, Entomostraca, the name of certain minute Crustacea, some of which have a bivalve 
shell, is derived from évroya, insects, dezpazov, a shell, but in Macmurtrie’s Dictionary of the 
terms used in natural history, they are said to be thus called, because the shell is divided 
into numerous segments; and the Greek yvévye (a mother) is given as the etymology of 
mammalogy, which science would be thus made to treat of animals with mothers. 
325. Arquebus. The Latin arma first meant tools of husbandry, next those of war. In 
German ‘armschiitze’ (from the roots of arm and shoot) is a crossbowman; and ‘armbrust’ 
is a crossbow, as if connected with arm and breast, from a mode of holding the weapon, 
the stock of which was tubular, with a transverse groove to allow the string to drive the 
arrow or ball. 
French ‘arquebuse;’ Norman ‘arbalest;’ Ital. arcobugio and archibuso (as if from 
‘arco’ a bow, and ‘ bugio’ a perforation, ‘buso’ pierced;) English arquebus, arblast, aw- 
blast, harquebut, haquebut, hackbut, hagbut, hagbush, haque, hack, hake, and demihake. 
Compare German ‘doppelhaken,’ as if double hook, double the size of the hakenbiichse. 
Belgian ‘haakbus’ (as if hook tube, as ‘vuurroer’ is a gun or fire tube.) The Belgian 
‘bus,’ (German ‘biichse,’ a box, pipe, gun-barrel, and gun; Gr. 7¥ééc, Eng. box,) occurs in 
