So define the following nouns as to prevent any possible confusion with the nouns following them in parentheses: Wages (salary) Ride (drive) Planet (star) Truck (automobile) Watch (clock) Reins (lines) Jail (penitentiary)

But if the word is derived from primitive English or from a foreign language, you must seek its origin, not in one of the numbered subheads of the definition, but in an etymological record you will perceive within brackets or parentheses.

He disapproved of parentheses; and I believe in all his voluminous writings, not half a dozen of them will be found.

(Last of the Parentheses.)

The italicized explanations in parentheses are not intended to be read aloud; they will aid in giving the child the cue as to the way the part should be rendered.

FIRST TRAVELLER (seeing the hatchet, taking it up).[Footnote: The words in parentheses are not intended to be read aloud; they will give the child the cue as to how the part should be rendered.]

[Footnote 3: The abbreviation in parentheses after titles will be used in the Suggested Readings in place of the full title.]

In this essay Carlyle introduced to the English people a great German, but a grotesque, whose writings will probably never be read much out of Germany, excellent as they are, on account of the "jarring combination of parentheses, dashes, hyphens, figures without limit, one tissue of metaphors and similes, interlaced with epigrammatic bursts and sardonic turns,a heterogeneous, unparalleled imbroglio of perplexity and extravagance."

There is a second in parentheses: Provincial Morals and Customs.

His speech is oft broken off with a succession of long parentheses, which he ever vows to fill up ere the conclusion, and perhaps would effect it if the other's ear were as umveariable as his tongue.

And so with Hinze's deferential bearing, complimentary parentheses, and worshipful tones, which seem to some like the over-acting of a part in a comedy.

[Within parentheses let me tell thee, that I have often thought, that the little words in the republic of letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most significant.

- Parentheses (before and after the words) - .

It is a barbarous philosophical jargon, with all the repetitions, parentheses, formalities, uncouth nomenclature and verbiage of law-Latin; and what makes it worse, it is not mere verbiage, but has a great deal of acuteness and meaning in it, which you would be glad to pick out if you could.

Amen.] REMARK.The words above in parentheses are the variations in the passage of Luke.

(N.B.The name of the pony in parentheses is the name given by the School, &c., that presented the pony.)

This adverb when is often used erroneously in lieu of a nominative after is, to which construction of the word, such an interpretation as the foregoing would not be applicable; because the person means to tell, not when, but what, the thing is, of which he speaks: as, "Another cause of obscurity is when the structure of the sentence is too much complicated, or too artificial; or when the sense is too long suspended by parentheses.

, Parentheses, the introduction of, as affecting unity.

All these things does their completest specimen of etymological parsing lack, while it is grossly encumbered with parentheses of syntax, which "must be omitted till the pupil get the rules of syntax.

No dreary, labyrinthine sentences in which you find "no end in wandering mazes lost;" no chains of adjectives in linked harshness long drawn out; no digressions thrown in as parentheses; but crystalline definiteness and clearness, fine and varied rhythm, and all that delicate precision, all those felicities of word and cadence, which belong to the highest order of prose.

416-7; Percy made Dean, iii. 365; printer run out of parentheses, iii. 402, n. 1. CARLISLE, Law, Bishop of, i. 437, n. 2. CARLISLE, fifth Earl of, iv.

The copy compared with a rubbing gives the following reading, (the letters within parentheses are damaged): L. 1.

l. 5. C puts I'll...action in parentheses.

The descriptive element is realistic, with only pertinent details swiftly presented, often in parentheses, while the action moves on.

A lady should make it plain whether she is to be addressed as Miss or Mrs. This can be done either by placing the title Miss or Mrs. in parentheses before the name, or by writing the whole address below and to the left of the signature.

For the modernisation of the spelling, which some readers may perhaps be inclined to regret, and for the punctuation, as well as for the elucidatory notes within brackets, Mr. Arber is solely responsible.

Those within brackets, are contained in one MS.

However, you will find, interspersed in this text, notations describing the places where new slides should be loaded, in [square-brackets].

The fronts of many of the houses are handsomely carved and decorated, the columns and pillars and brackets which support the balconies, the railings, the door frames, the eaves and architraves, are often beautiful examples of the carvers' skill, and the exterior walls are usually painted in gay colors and fanciful designs.

The roofs are slightly pitched to the front edges, where they drain into gold-plated copper-gutters on plated wrought-iron brackets, with one side flashed up over the blocks, which raise the slabs from the beam-tops, to clear the joint gutters....

The stone was cut in such a way as to leave on two of its sides small brackets shaped like the two halves of the utensil called a "tunnel."

Don't set me to making brackets.

We brought home a small cartload of natural brackets; some of them beautiful.

[] The CROTCHETS, or BRACKETS, generally inclose some correction or explanation, but sometimes the sign or subject to be explained; as, "He [Mr. Maurice] was of a different opinion.

What is the use of the Crotchets, or Brackets?

usage Crotchets, or brackets, how used confused and inaccurate teaching of WEBST.

In all cases where there is no word in our language which expresses the signification of the Greek, as in the names of weights and measures, Mr. Sawyer substitutes for the language of the common version the foreign word of the original,sometimes merely giving the orthography of the Greek in English letters, sometimes affixing a termination,and frequently he adds, in brackets, an explanation of his rendering.

So they make brackets of themselves, as Rap says.

" Whatever may be the precise force of the remark in brackets, it is unquestionably true that mysticism is often used in a semi-contemptuous way to denote vaguely any kind of occultism or spiritualism, or any specially curious or fantastic views about God and the universe.

Sentences added in the reprint are placed between square brackets

Sentences omitted, or words altered, are shown by bracketing the revised version, and giving the text as it stood in the original daily issue within corresponding brackets as a foot-note.

But if the words or passages in brackets be omitted; the words or passages in corresponding foot-notes,where there are such foot-notes,being substituted for them; the text becomes throughout that of the 'Spectator' as it first came out in daily numbers.

This is the text of England's Helicon, which is superior to that in the play, except for the omission of the couplet in brackets, and possibly in the reading 'hath sworn' for 'is sworn,' in l. 11.

The little tables, and the two or three brackets, and the few pictures, and other art-ornaments, that only "strinkled," Barbara said, in two rooms, would be charmingly "crowsy" in one.

Pictures and fancy articles are inappropriate; but a few pots of easily cultivated flowers on the window ledge or arranged upon brackets about the window in winter, and a window box arranged as a jardiniere, with vines and blooming plants in summer, will greatly brighten the room, and thus serve to lighten the task of those whose daily labor confines them to the precincts of the kitchen.

Comments in square brackets, other than the footnotes, were added during the process of transcribing the booklet to an etext.

This valuable work of reference contains over two hundred copperplate engravings of chairs, sofas, bedsteads, mirror frames, girandoles, torchéres or lamp stands, dressing tables, cabinets, chimney pieces, organs, jardiniéres, console tables, brackets, and other useful and decorative articles, of which some examples are given.

[Transcriber's Note: The brief descriptions often found enclosed in square brackets are "sidenotes", which appeared in the original book in the margins of the paragraph following the "sidenote."

In quoting the passage I have omitted the brackets which the editors print for the purpose of indicating the words which are implied, but not expressed, in the original Bushman text.

The church, which is said to have been a chantry chapel founded by Robert Fitzurse, Reginald's brother, has been completely rebuilt; its only antiquities are the W. doorway, the font (1666), a piscina, and two brackets on the E. wall.