"A passive verb denotes action received or endured by the person or thing which is its nominative.

17.In some instances, what is commonly considered the active form of the verb, is used in a passive sense; and, still oftener, as we have no other passive form that so well denotes continuance, we employ the participle in ing in that sense also: as, "I'll teach you all what's owing to your Queen.

Examples: "Of denotes possession or belonging.

UNDER denotes inferiority; as in under-value, under-clerk, under-growth.

[Footnote 18: Wudijoo, a mountainong denotes locality.] 16th.

The prepositions in and at denote rest or motion in a place; into denotes motion toward a place:

Then, again, the cypress, in floral language, denotes mourning; and, as an emblem of woe, may be traced to the familiar classical myth of Cyparissus, who, sorrow-stricken at having skin his favourite stag, was transformed into a cypress tree.

UN denotes negation or contrariety; as in un-kind, un-load, un-truth, un-coif.

PRECEPT IV.Avoid the recurrence of a word in different senses, or such a repetition of words as denotes paucity of language: as, "His own reason might have suggested better reasons.

"May, or can, in its self, denotes possibility."Ib., p. 216.

The head turned away from the interlocutor, denotes pride, noble or base.

The eye opens only in the first emotion; then it becomes calm, closing gradually; an eye wide open in emotion, denotes stupidity.

OVER denotes superiority or excess; as in over-power, over-strain, over-large. 9.

" The cube, in the language of symbolism, denotes truth.

" In conclusion, let every woman bear in mind that dress denotes character, that there is a symbolism in dress which they who have studied the matter can read without difficulty.

Greedy denotes excessiveness (usually habitual) of appetite or, in its figurative uses, of desire; it nearly always carries the idea of selfishness.