Anglo-Saxon derivation. I understand you then to say that FAINT (as well as fennowed, &c.) is the past participle of Fyngean: yet it does not ter minate in ED or 'D. H. In English nothing is more common than the change of the participial terminating D to r. Thus, JOINT....is joined, join'd, joint. FEINT....is feigned, feign'd, feint. GIFT....is gived, giv'd, gift. RIFT....is rived, riv'd, rift. "The shippe droue unto a castle and was al to RIVEN.' Historie of Prince Arthur, part 1st, chap. 25. "Warres 'twixt you twaine would be "And if the world should cleaue, and that slaine men "Should sodder up the RIFF," "The clouds Antony and Cleopatra, pag. 353. "From many a horrid RIFT abortive pour'd "Fierce rain with light'ning mix'd.” Paradise Regain'd, book 4, v. 411. CLEFT CLIFT ....is cleaved, cleav'd, cleft. CLIFF "Adowne he shofth his hand to the CLYFTE Sompner's Tale, fol. 44, pag. 2, cul, 1. "But yet this CLIFTE was so narrowe and lyte "It was nat sene." "" Tysbe, fol. 210, pag. 2, col 1. "And romyng on the CLEUIS by the see." Hypsiphile, fol. 214, pag. 1, co? 1. "This lady rometh by the CLYFFE to play." Hypsiphile, fol. 214, pag. 1, col. 9. "In tyme of Crystus passyon the veyl of the Jewes temple to rente and CLEEF in two partes.” Diues and Pauper, thyrde Comm. cap. 3, "She founde that moneye hangynge in the craueyses and CLYFTES of the half bushel." Diues and Pauper, 4th Comm. cap. 4. "Loue led hym to his deth and CLEEF his hert atwo." Diues and Pauper, tenthe Comm. cap. S. « Rob Douer's neighbouring CLEEVES of sampyre.” Poly-olbion, Song, 18. THRIFT....is thrived, thriv'd, thrift. SHRIFT....is shrived, shriv'd, shrift. DRIFT....is drived, driv'd, drift. "Be plaine, good son, rest homely in thy DRIFT Romeo and Juliet, pag. 61. "It could no more be hid in him "Than humble banks can go to law with waters B. and Fletcher, Two Noble Kinsmen. "Some log perhaps upon the waters swam "An useless DRIFT, which, rudely cut within, Dryden, Annus mirabilis, Stanza 156. THEFT....is theved, thev'd, theft. WEFT....is weved, wev'd, weft. HEFT....is heved, hev'd, heft. "There may be in the cup "A spider steep'd; and one may drinke, depart, "Th' abhor'd ingredient to his eye, make knowne "In the hert there is the hefde, and the hygh wyll." Vision of Pierce Ploughman, fol. 7, pag. 1. HAFT....is haved, hav'd, HAFT. The HAFT, of a knife or poniard, is the haved part; the part by which it is haved. "But yet ne fond I nought the HAFT "Whiche might unto the blade accorde." Gower, lib. 4, fol. 68, pag. 1, col. 1. HILT....is held, helt, hilt. The HILT of a sword is the held part, the part which is held. TIGHT....is tied, ti'd, tight, of the Anglo-Saxon verb tian, vincire, to tie. "To seie howe suche a man hath good "Who so that reasone understoode "It is unproperlicke sayde: "That good hath hym, and halt him TAIDE "That he ne gladdeth nought withall, "But is unto his good a thrall.” Gower, lib. fol. 84, pag. 1, col. 1. DESERT....is deserved, deserv'd, desert. FART, a very innocent word, (the Egyptians thought it divine)(") fared, far'd, fart, i. e. fared, gone; the past participle of Faɲan, to fare, or to go. The meaning of this word appears to have been understood by those who introduced the vulgar eountry custom of saying upon such an occasion, "And joy co with you." (w)" Crepitus ventris pro numinibus habendos esse docuere." Clemens Romanus, v. Recognit. "Iidem Ægyptii cum plerisque vobiscum non magis Isidem quam ceparum acrimonias metuunt; nec Serapidem magis "quam strepitus, per pudenda corporis expressos, extremiscunt." Minucius Felix, Octavio. TWIST....is twiced, twic'd, twist. QUILT...s qualled, quill'd, quilt. WANT....s wared, wan'd, want, the past parti ciple of Panian, decrescere, to wane, to fall away. GAUNT....is ge-waned, gewan'd, gewant, g'want, gaunt; the past participle of Le-panian, to wane, to decrease, to fall away. Ge is a common prefix to the Anglo-Saxon verbs. GAUNT was formerly a very common word in English. "As GANT as a greyhound:" Ray's proverbial Similies. « How is't with aged GAUNT? ? Oh how that name befits my composition : "Old Gaunt indeed, and GAUNT in being old: « Within me greefe hath kept a tedious fast, "And who abstaynes from meate, that is not GAUNT "For sleeping England long time haue I watcht, "Watching breeds leannesse, leannesse is all GAunt. "The pleasure that some fathers feede upon "Is may strict fast, I mean my childrens lookes, "And therein fasting last thou made me GAUNT. GAUNT am I for the graue, GAUNT as a graue, "Whose hollow wombe inherits nought but bones." Richard the Second, pag. 28. "This man, "If all our fire were out, would fetch down new "Out of the hand of Jove, and rivet him "His own GAUNT eagle fly at him, to tire.” B. Jonson, Catiline. "Two mastiffs GAUNT and grim her flight pursu'd, Dryden, Theodore and Honoria. DRAUGHT....the past participle of dragan, to draugh, (now written to draw) draughed, draugh'd, draught. RENT....rended, rend'd, rent; of the verb to rend. BENT....a person's bent or inclination. Bended, bend'd, bent. TILT....of a boat or waggon: the past participle of the Anglo-Saxon verb tılıan, i. e. to raise, or to lift up. To till the ground, is, to raise it, to turn it up. Atilt, is well said of a vessel that is raised up; but we ought to say to till, and not to tilt a vessel. "Many wynter men lyued, and no meate ne TILIDEN." Vision of Pierce Ploughman, passus. 15, fol. 72, pag. 2. "Turned upsidowne, and ouer TILT the rote." Vis. of P. Ploughman, pass. 21, fol. 112, pag. 1. "He garde good fayth flee, and false to abyde, Vis. of P. Ploughman, pass. 21, fol. 113, pag. 2. "O hye God, nothyng they tell, ne howe, "But in Goddes worde TELLETH many a balke." Chaucer, Ploughman's Tale, fol. 95, pag. 2, col. 2. F. What is MALT? H. MOULD and MALT, Though now differently pronounced, written, and applied by us, are one and the same French word mouillé; the past participle of the verb mouiller, to wet or to moisten. Mouillé, anglicised, becomes mouilled, mouill'd, mould: then moult, mault, malt. Wetting or moistening of the grain is the first and |