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ETYMOLOGY.
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O let thy pity baste the heart
Thy fatal charms have roasted!
SECTION II.
OF GENDER.
The distinction between nouns with regard to sex is called Gender. There are three genders: the Masculine, the Feminine, and the Neuter.
The masculine gender belongs to animals of the male kind: as, a fop, a jackass, a boar, a poet, a lion.
The feminine gender is peculiar to animals of the female kind: as, a poetess, a lioness, a goose.
