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ader_, p. 138. "The panther is a ferocious creature: like the tiger it seizes its prey by surprise."--_Ib._, p. 102. "The leopard, in its chace of prey, spares neither man nor beast."--_Ib._, p. 103. "If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it."--_Exod._, xxii, 1. "A dog resists its instinct to run after a hare, because it recollects the beating it has previously received on that account. The horse avoids the stone at which it once has stumbled."--_Spurzheim, on Education_, p. 3. "The racehorse is looked upon with pleasure; but it is the warhorse, that carries grandeur in its idea."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 30.
OBS. 10.--The sexes are distinguished by words, in four different ways. First, by the use of different terminations: as, _Jew, Jewess; Julius, Julia; hero, heroine_. Secondly, by the use of entirely different names: as, _Henry, Mary; king, queen_. Thirdly, by compounds or phrases including some distinctive term: as, _Mr. Murray, Mrs. Murray; Englishman, Englishwoman; grandfather, grandmother; landlord, landlady; merman, mermaid; servingman, servingmaid; man-servant, maid-servant; schoolmaster, schoolmistress; school-boy, school-girl; peacock, peahen; cock-sparrow, hen-sparrow; he-goat, she-goat; buck-rabbit, doe-rabbit; male elephant, female elephant; male convicts, female convicts_. Fourthly, by the pronouns _he, his, him_, put for nouns masculine; and _she, her, hers_, for nouns feminine: as, "Ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?"--_Jer._, xlviii, 19.
"O happy _peasant!_ Oh unhappy _bard!_ His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward."--Cowper.
OBS. 11.--For feminine nouns formed by inflection, the regular termination is _ess_; but the manner in which this ending is applied to the original or masculine noun, is not uniform:-- < previous next >