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Show B 1 T O y "m t i % by ng bk encis wee o will gt A A The firft letter of the European | 2. A, taken materially, or for itfelf alphabets, has, in the Englif nouny as, a great 4, alittle a Walli The broad found, refembling that o the German a;73s found in many of ou is put before a word denoting fome aétio not ye monofyllables, as a//, wall, malt, jalt, i It alfo feems to be anciently contrate which « is pronounced as az in caufe, o aw in laww. Many of thefe words wer from a¢, when placed before local furnames; as, L homas a2 Becket. In othe anciently written with axz, as Jfauls awaulk ; which happens to be ftillretaine cafes, it feem in fault A hunting Chloe went They go a begging to a bankrupt's door This was probably the ancien found of the Saxons, fince it is almof uniformly preferved in the ruftic pronunciation, and the Northern dialeéts as maun for man, haund for hand A open, not unlike the « of the Italians is- found in father, rather, and mor obfcurely in fancy, faf?, &c A {lender or clofe betwee 1is the peculiar z of th them or between the zand ¢ to thig the Arabic « is faid nearly to approach Of this found we have examples in the words, place, face, wafte, an all thofe that terminate in ation; as relation, nation, generation A is fhort, as, glafs, grafs; or long, as glaze, graze : it is.marked long, gene rally, by an e final, plane, or by an added, as plain 'The fhort a is open the long « clofe I. A, an article fet before nouns of th fingular number; 2 man, a tree; denotin th numbe oue as, 2 ma i coming, that is, #o more than one ; or a indefinite indication, as, 4 man ma come this way, thatis, azy man Thi article has no plural fignification. Be fore a word Beginning with a vowel, i s written an, as, az OX, an egg, o which « is the contradtion And with the ftate of th' world were now undone Shakefpeare's Blacheth And now a breeze from fhore began to blow, The failors fhip their oars, and ceafe to row language,three different founds, | 3. A is placed before a participle, or participial noun; and is confidered b which may be termed the broad, open .Englifh language, refembling the foun of the French ¢ mafculine, or diphthon ai in pais, or perhaps a middle foun I gin to be 2 wvcary of the fun is and {lender Ne I a a contractio finithed as, of az a when i Then hoift their yards a-z7ip, and all their {ails Let fall, to court the wind, and catch the gales Dryden's Ceyx and Alcyone A little houfe with trees 2 row Popey Hor And, like its mafter, very low « walking to fignify z0, like th French 2 Prior Dryden May peace fill flumber by thefe purling fountains Which we may every yea Find when we come « fithing here Whotton Now the men fell a rubbing of armour, whic a great while had lain oiled Wotton He will knap the fpears a4 pieces with his teeth Mores Antid. Athm Another falls ringing a Pefcennius Niger, an judicioufly diftinguithes the found of it to b modern Addifon on Medals 8. A is {ometimes redundant; 3 as, arife aroyfe, awake ; the fame with rife, roufe wake 9. A, in abbreviations, ftands for artium or arts; as, A. B. batchelor of arts, artium baccalaureus 3 A. M. mafter of arts artium magifler; or, anno; as, A. De anno domint AB at the beginning of the name o places, generally fhews that they hav fome relation to an abbey, as dbingdon Gibfon Ana'ckE. adwv. [from back.] Backwards Obfolete But when they came wher thou thy fkill didf thow They drew abacke, as half with thame confound 4. A has a peculiar fignification, denotin Sperf. Paft the proportion of one thing to another ABA'CTOR. . f.[Latin.] One who drive Thus we fay, The landlord hath a hun- away or fteals cagtle in herds, or grea dred a year; The fhip's crew gained nurnbers at once, in diftin&ion from thoufand pounds z man thofe that fteal only a fheep or two. The river Inn paffes through a wide open country, during all its courfe through Bavaria; whic is a voyage of two days after the rate of twent Addifon on Italy leagues « day 5. A is ufed in burlefque poetry, tolengthe ou a fyllable withou addin to th A BACUS. n. /. [Latin. 1 counting-table ancientl ufe i calculations z. [Inarchiteéture.] The uppermoft member of a column, which {erves as a for fenfe For cloves and nutmegs to the line-a And even for oranges to China 6. A is fometimes . Blount of crowning both to the capital and coDryden in familiar writings put by a barbarous corruption for ke as, will @ come, for will 4e come 7o A0 compofition, feems to have {fometimes the power of the French 4 in thef phrafes, a droit, a gauche, &c. and fome times to be contracted from az; as, afide aflope, afaot, aflecp, athirft, aware lumn Di ABA'FT. adv. [of abarran, Sax. behind. From the fore-part of the fhip, toward the ftern Di& Agarsance.n f.[from the French abaiJfer, to deprefs, to bring down.] An ac Obeyfance 15 conof reverence, abow fidered by Skinner as a corruption o abaifance, but is now univerfally ufed T |