fince been wifely exiled, on account of its 
too great likenefs to the family defcending 
from coil, a fpiral-gathering, a winding- 
envelope. ‘ 
In the fcllowing epigram, is not this 
word in its place? 
Enchanting nightingales, your tongues accoy, 
My Delia boafts fuperior powers to you, 
Your various notes the hours of eve employ, 
Hier’s, all the day, and, damn it! all night 
too. 
Accrewy.—This is either an orthogra- 
phic variety of 70 accrue, to which word 
the reader fhould be referred, if M. Ma- 
fon’s derivation be the true one; or it is a 
verb formed from the noun crew, and fig- 
nifies to colle&t into one band, to gather’ 
intoa fingle company. ‘The latter fuppo- 
fition is favoured by the following paflage 
of Spenfer : . 
At jaft his Jucklefs hand he heav’d on high, 
‘Having his forces.ali in one accrewed, 
And therewith ftrook at her. 
Anti-guggler.—Of this word, the termi- 
natine r is redundant, and indefenfible: 
the thing to be prevented being a gug- 
gle, nota guggler. It is moreover a hy- 
brid word, and therefore of equivocal ad- 
miffibility. The Englhth language derives 
from three main fources; the Saxon, the 
French (through which moft of our Latin 
avords have flowed), and the Greek. But 
it has not become very ufual to compound 
words from the one fountain, with words 
from either of the other. One fays, gain- 
fayer, coniradicter, antagonif: 5 but never 
gain-diéier, gain-agonifi; never contra- 
jayer or anti-fayer. Such mongrel unions 
feem to offend the fpirit of the language. 
Anti gugglep is of this defcription—the 
prepofiticn, anti, being of Greek, _and 
the noun, guggler, of French, origin. 
Who does not recollect Moliere’s fong? 
Ab! av7ils font doux 
Vos petits gloughus, 
Bouteille jolie 5 
Mon fort ferait bien de jaloux, 
Si vous fiifliez toujours rempiie. 
Yet counter-guggle, if more regular, would 
be lefs euphonious. 
A few/formative fyllables have become 
fo wholly Englifh as to unite with words 
from any fource: fuch are arch and zé/s, 
—archfiend, archenemy, archbifhop; good- 
nefs, clearnefs, wholenets. 
Appal.—This word is here ftrangely 
derived from appalus, ahd explained to 
grovy qld. 5; 
from the adjective pale by prefixing the 
Probably it isa verb formed ~ 
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-augment, and means fo grow pale, to 
blanch from fear or pity, to render 
pale. we . 
- Appofition.—This term is ill-defined ; 
for, in Englifh, two fubftantives put in 
appofition do not aiways agree in cafe: in 
the phrafe, ‘© Let us hope for King 
George’s amendment ;”” King is not, and 
George is, in the pofleffive cafe, yet they 
ftand in appofition. 
Ariilize—Bolingbroke, in attempting 
to introduce this word from Montaigne, 
was not. aware that Englifh verbs in 
ze are always formed from pre-exifting’. 
Englifh nouns, and may_not be imported 
in their verbal form. Hf the adjeétive ar- 
tial, analogous to martial, partial, &c. 
had been in ufe, to artzalize would have 
been the proper verbs We have only the 
adjective artificial we can form 70 artif- 
cialize. © It would be found Englifh to 
obferve, that the Britifh {chool of garden- 
ing naturalizes art; the French artificial- 
izes nature.” Montaigne’s antithefis caa 
be tranflated with rival brevity. ; 
Afcaunt, prepofitton.—The very exiftence ~ 
of this word depends, fays Mr. Mafon, on. 
a doubtful reading in Shakefpeare. Surely 
not. If every word, that canbe found 
in print, is therefore fterling Englifh, our ~ 
language is at the mercy, not only of 
every bungler in compofition, but of every 
compofitor’s bungling. Shakefpeare may 
circulate’ falfe coin, and often does; and 
good money may have efcaped the record of 
any authority. Let us rather afk concern- 
ing a word, whether it has legitimate 
parentage, relations, defcendants ? if fo, it 
is Englifh; though it may never. have 
found a printer for midwife. Now tothe 
word in queftion. 
From the Anglo-Saxon verb feeenan*, te 
break off, comes the participle fc@zt, bro- 
ken woff; whence the Englifh adjective 
fcant, which fignifes, lefs than whole, de- 
ficient, incompetent, bare, fcarce,. parfi- 
monious. From this adje&tive derives the 
fubfiantive /caniling, a piece of timber 
broken off from another, a {mall tree form< 
ed by puilulation from a ftool, an offset, - 
and, metaphorically, a deficient or bare 
quantity of any thing. As fragments 
break off awry, as offsets grow fideways, 
the idea of obliquity eafily aflociates with 
* Somner and Lye both tranflate fcenan 
frangere 5 yet it perhaps means to /kin, to 
flay, in which cafe /c4ntlng would mean a 
tree ftripped of its bark ; and to Jock afcant, to 
eye with penetration, or ftrippingly. 
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