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ETYMOLOGY.
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| | (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) | |
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| | The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him | |
| | now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer | |
| | handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the | |
| | known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it | |
| | somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. | |
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| | "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what | |
| | name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through | |
| | ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification | |
| | of the word, you deliver that which is not true."—HACKLUYT | |
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| | "WHALE. ... Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness | |
| | or rolling; for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted."—WEBSTER'S | |
| | DICTIONARY | |
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| | "WHALE. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. WALLEN; | |
| | A.S. WALW-IAN, to roll, to wallow."—RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY | |
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| | KETOS, GREEK. | |
| | CETUS, LATIN. | |
| | WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. | |
| | HVALT, DANISH. | |
| | WAL, DUTCH. | |
| | HWAL, SWEDISH. | |
| | WHALE, ICELANDIC. | |
| | WHALE, ENGLISH. | |
| | BALEINE, FRENCH. | |
| | BALLENA, SPANISH. | |
| | PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. | |
| | PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, ERROMANGOAN. | |
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