The words [Hebrew: LMNTSCH 'L HNCHYLWT] at the head of Psalm v. (for this is the only one so superscribed) should, perhaps, be read with [Hebrew: `L] instead of [Hebrew: 'L] meaning, "For the leading performer on the nehiloth." The nehiloth appear from the root [Hebrew: CHLL], _to bore through_, and in Piel, _to play the flute_, to be the same instruments as the _ná-y_ of the Arabs, similar to the English flute, blown, not transversely as the German flute, but at the end, as the oboe. But the Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotius translate [Greek: huper tês klêronomousês]: and hence the Vulgate _pro ea, quæ hereditatem consequitur_; and Jerome, _pro hereditatibus_. Suidas explains [Greek: klêronomousa] by [Greek: ekklêsia], which is the sense of the Syriac. Psalm vi. is headed [Hebrew: BNGYNWT `L HSHMYNYT], and Psalm vi. [Hebrew: `L SHMYNYT], without the "neginoth;" and the "sheminith" is also mentioned (Chron. xv. 21.). The Chaldee and Jarchi translate "Harps of eight strings." The Septuagint, Vulgate, Aquila, and Jerome, [Greek: huper tês ogdoês], appear also to have understood an instrument of eight strings. T. J. BUCKTON. Birmingham. * * * * * Minor Notes. "_Garble._"--MR. C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY has called attention to a growing corruption in the use of the word "eliminate," and I trust he may be able to check its progress. The word _garble_ has met with very similar usage, but the corrupt meaning is now the only one in which it is ever used, and it would be hopeless to try and restore it to its original sense. The original sense of "to _garble_" was a good one, not a bad one; it meant a selection of the good, and a discarding of the bad parts of anything: its present meaning is exactly the reverse of this. By the statute 1 Rich. III. c. 11., it is provided that no bow-staves shall be sold "ungarbled:" that is (as Sir E. Coke explains it), until the good and sufficient be severed from the bad and insufficient. By statute 1 Jac. I. c. 19., a penalty is imposed on the sale of spices and drugs not "garbled;" and an officer called the _garbler_ of spices is authorised to enter shops, and view the spices and drugs, "and to _garble_ and make clean the same." Coke derives the word either from the French _garber_, to make fine, neat, clean; or from _cribler_, and that from _cribrare_, to sift, &c. (4 Inst. 264.) It is easy to see how the corruption of this word has taken place; but it is not the less curious to compare the opposite meanings given to it at different times. E. S. T. T.