Of those sorts of names are formed the more complex, such as those names, phrases, or propositions called words merely by a combination of the proper sorts, either with or without an elision of consonants. In the latter case, the less expressive, valuable, or necessary may be cut off when two vowels occur in composition, as its consonant will in some measure preserve its sound in company with a more worthy vowel; and all active radical vowels ought to be dropped in the names of substances and things, as appears by the following examples, viz. blackish or b-li-ack-ish, _a thing without light_; blessedness or bi-il-ess-ed-in-ess, _life flowing down upon the world_; brutish, or ab-ru-ti-ish, _he is from the property of truth_; clamorous or ac-al-am-or-us, _a great calling action about us_; cliverly, or ci-liv-erly, _like the water clan_; creating or ac-ci-ir-at-ing, _the chief or first motion to extension and action_; crocodile or ac-ir-oc-o-di-il, _an angry acting, deceitful water animal_; dread or id-ir-ad, _at the fire_; flow or af-il-ow, _a spring of the rays of the sun_; frost or af-oer-st, _the lower parts at a stand from the cold_; and cold is from ac-ol-id _to be without sun_; glorifying or ag-lo-ri-fying, _the doing of an high action in an extensive place_; gnaw or ag-in-w, _the acting in of an animal_; grass or ag-ar-as, _the action upon the ground_; place or p-la-ce, _a part of the earth’s_ extension; property or pe-or-pe-er-ty, _entity or possession of the parts of land and water or of this globe_; scull or si-cau-al, _the sight shut_; sky or is-kay, _the covering of below_; slack or is-al-ack, _a low or slow action_; small or is-am-il, _the rays of the sun about below_; snail or si-in-na-il, _it is in without light_; speak or si-pe-ak, _the action of the sound part_; spy or si-pe-y, _the seeing thing_; star or sta-ir, _the standing fires_; trace or tir-race, _the land race_; and race or ir-ace, is a _long action_. ARTICLE. The article, αρθρα, partakes of the nature of pronouns; and in apposition or concord with another name, either active or substantive, determines it to be a substantive, or the name of a substance, with its identity and number. There are two sorts of articles, viz. _the_ and _an_; an becomes _a_ or _any_ before a consonant, and either of them being placed in apposition to an active convertible name, convert it into a substantive, as _to form_ into _a form_, _to chase_ into _a chase_. And, names being first formed in the plural number, both these then stood as signs of the singular number; but since plural names have been taken as singular, and new signs have been added thereto to form plurals, _the_ is also put in apposition to plural names, to indentify the person or thing meant or spoken of.